I build statistical and machine learning methods that quantify how far a model can be trusted when the data are rare and the stakes are high, and I work with institutions and decision-makers on how to evaluate and deploy those models. I’m a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Dr. Ann B. Lee in the STAMPS Research Center. I began in astrostatistics, where I worked rare-event statistics by studying solar flares and large-scale inference tasks with all-sky surveys; I maintain collaborations with the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the CHASC International Astrostatistics Collaboration, and previously conducted research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

I am a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a Block Center Fellow for AI and Society, and a Senior Quad Fellow. I graduated from New College of Florida with a B.A. in Statistics & Applied Mathematics in 2022 and an M.S. in Applied Data Science in 2024, and I am the founder of OutlierOrbit, an applied statistics and AI consulting company that helps organizations and decision-makers get reliable answers from their data and build systems that improve decision-making.

Research Interests

• Trustworthy uncertainty quantification: confidence sets and calibration valid in the tails, under distribution shift, and at the scale of hundreds of millions of observations
• Anomaly detection, rare and extreme events, and discovery: unusual points, sequences, and collections of events
• Uncertainty for decisions, operational AI, and deployment: calibrated uncertainty turned into decision rules, monitoring, and evaluation protocols for systems in production
• Applications: energy and critical infrastructure, space sciences and space weather, AI systems

Research Collaborations

• STAMPS@CMU – Statistical Methods for the Physical Sciences Research Center
• CHASC - International CHASC Astro-Statistics Center

Updates

• September 2026 - I have been named a Block Center Fellow for AI and Society at Carnegie Mellon University.
• July 2025 - My co-first author article “Investing in the Indo-Pacific Promise: Evolving Early Career STEM Diplomacy Across the Quad and ASEAN” has been published in AAAS Science & Diplomacy.
• June 2025 - I was selected as a Leadership Florida Connect Class 15 Member.
• February 2025 - I have been appointed to the Board of Directors of the New College Foundation, the designated honors college of the State University System of Florida.
• December 2024 - I was selected as one of SRQ Magazine’s 35 Under 35 Honorees.
• August 2024 - I have officially started my PhD in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of Statistics & Data Science.
• April 2024 - I have been selected as a receipient of the 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
• August 2023 - I taught my first course, IDC 5100: Introduction to Data Science Bootcamp, at New College of Florida.
• December 2022 - I have been selected as a recipient of the Quad Fellowship by Schmidt Futures. See The White House press release here.

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