News

March 2026

• Graduated from the Air Force Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in Operations Research

• Presentation accepted at the 94th Military Operations Research Society (MORS) Symposium

• Analogy2KG (“Analogy to Knowledge Graph”) article published in Knowledge-based Systems journal (see here)

February 2026

• TechFest Dayton 2026 had over 2,500+ attendees, of which 1,500+ were K-12 students, check out over 50 exhibitors and presenters at the event over President’s Day weekend

• Nominated at the division-level for the 2025 Dr. Samuel M. Burka Memorial Award, the 2025 Lab Scientist of the Fourth Quarter, and the Veiled Director’s Cup Team Award

January 2026

• Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation, “Modernization of Analogical Reasoning Through Knowledge Graphs: Representation, Mapping, and Learning”

• Three papers published in the Proceedings of the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), see more at my publications page

November 2025

• INFORMS Cincinnati-Dayton awarded a 2024 Chapter Excellence award

September 2025

• Oral presentation and poster accepted at AFRL Discover

August 2025

• Three papers accepted at the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
• Passed prospectus defense and entered into Ph.D. candidacy

July 2025

• Passed Ph.D. specialty exam

June 2025

• Paper accepted for oral presentation at IEEE National Aerospace Eletronics Conference (NAECON) 2025

April 2025

• Paper on the analogical reasoning abilities and energy efficient of large language models accepted to IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Sciences

February 2025

• TechFest Dayton 2025 had 2,200+ attendees

January 2025

• Three papers presented at the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
  • “Zero-shot comparison of large language models (LLMs) reasoning abilities on long-text analogies” nominated for best paper

November 2024

• Selected by second-level supervisor as the division nominee for the Brian M. Hendrickson Memorial Award (Analogical Learning Team)

October 2024

• Named as one of the receipents of INFORMS’s Judith Liebman Award at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting
• Selected for the Waves of Change STEM Conference’s Student Leadership (Graduate Level) Award

June 2024

• Selected by second-level supervisor as the division’s STEM Advocate for Quarter 1 of 2024 award

March 2024

• Paper accepted at the ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Research Conference

February 2024

• Selected by second-level supervisor as the division’s Chief’s Pick for Quarter 4 of 2023
• TechFest Dayton 2024 had 2,000+ attendees

January 2024

• Three paper presented at the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

November 2023

• Selected by second-level supervisor as the division nominee for the 2023 Category II Air Force Civillian of the Year Award (equivalent of a GS-9 through GS-11 employee)

October 2023

• Recognized as one of five “Inno(vators) under 25” by the Dayton Business Journal

May 2023

• Paper presented at the IISE Annual Conference 2023

January 2023

• Two papers presented at the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)