• Constructing a comprehensive geospatial dataset which integrates 4 data sources for critical mineral deposits to cross-validate and enrich the available data.
• Assessed the intersection of power outages and extreme weather through analyzing and visualizing the spatiotemporal relationships of different datasets, resulting in a research paper and a conference presentation.
• Processed and analyzed human behavior during Winter Storm Uri based on over 500GB of GPS data, resulting in a research paper and a conference presentation.
• Evaluated market readiness, technical feasibility, and suitability for the conversion of a 340 MW gas power plant for 4 different hydrogen fuel cell technologies. The results empowered the utility customer to reach an informed and defendable decision on a $800 million investment.
• Generated example plant footprints for 10 different fuel cell models with hydrogen reformation and storage.
• Published 2 conference papers, 2 technical reports, and 3 other publications.

• Invented a topology-aware accident detection method for highways. Patent pending.
• Built a communications system to enable communication between connected autonomous vehicles and traffic signal infrastructure for signal and vehicle control. Dispersed eco-driving recommendations based on real-time traffic data. Two patents pending.
• Conducted field experiments for novel traffic signal control in response to real-time traffic data in with the City of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Decreased travel time along the traffic corridor by up to 19.4% compared to time-of-day scheduling.
• Developed a real-time situational awareness tool for mobility at regional scale, which integrated real-time and historic data for over 300 sensors.
• Parallelized and scaled up the orchestration of building energy simulation to generate and run building models on Theta supercomputer.
• Generated Model America datasets containing building models for over 140 million buildings.
• Generated custom building occupancy schedules for 600 buildings based on movement data from traffic sensors, and reduced the RMSE of simulated energy use by 79% in comparison with stock occupancy schedules.
• Integrated datasets into an ElasticSearch database and built dashboards in Kibana as part of a COVID-19 monitoring effort.
• Published over 20 journal papers, over 15 conference papers, 14 datasets, and over 20 other publications.

• Developed automatic scenario generation for ensemble runs of TRANSIMS.
• Coupled TRANSIMS to an emissions simulation (EPA MOVES) and a building energy simulation (EnergyPlus).
• Produced building occupancy schedules for >300 Chicago Loop buildings using simulated traffic from 640k agents from 34 sqkm around the Loop.
• Built and optimized an image data workflow to support at-scale deployment of Deep Learning (Convolutional Neural Networks/CNN) on Titan supercomputer, which processed the entire area of Zambia (over 685k km2) within 6 hours using over 5,400 nodes.
• Designed the user interface for a web-based platform and developed visualizations to analyze the Energy Water Nexus.
• Published 2 journal papers, 4 conference papers, and more than 10 other publications.

• Produced in-situ visualizations for climate and plasma physics datasets using ParaView Catalyst on small HPC clusters.
• Developed a novel video-based compression method for in-situ visualization of simulated data, achieving a compression rate of 0.3% (compared with original data size) with near-identical PSNR.
• Supported user testing with A/B choice experiments to determine the cognitive impact of compression, and validate the compression technique.
• Developed regional versions of global analysis members for MPAS-Ocean (climate model).
• Published 2 journal papers, 4 conference papers, and 3 technical reports.

• Converted Tokamak fusion reactor simulation outputs (ELMFIRE) from rectangles in polar coordinates (simulation output file format) to disc shapes with appropriate triangulations (VTK).
• Reconstructed and interpolated 3D volumetric data from discs and applied transformations to account for quasiballooning.
• Visualized 2D and 3D Tokamak data in ParaView in several different arrangements.
• Ported visualization to a VR Powerwall.

• Thesis on Discrete Geometric Methods for Surface Deformation and Visualization University of Kaiserslautern. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hans Hagen.
• Full scholarship/fellowship with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) for Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets: Applications in Geospatial Planning, Modeling and Engineering.
• Research visits at University of Connecticut (2012), University of California Davis (2013, 2014), German Aerospace (2014), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (2015).
• Thesis on Discrete Geometric Methods for Surface Deformation and Visualization University of Kaiserslautern. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hans Hagen.
• Full scholarship/fellowship with the International Research Training Group (IRTG) for Visualization of Large and Unstructured Data Sets: Applications in Geospatial Planning, Modeling and Engineering.
• Research visits at University of Connecticut (2012), University of California Davis (2013, 2014), German Aerospace (2014), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (2015).

GPA: 4.0

• Thesis on 3D In-Context Visualization for Probabilistic Tractography
• Specialization: Computer Graphics and Visualization (majority of coursework).
• Minor: Biology.
• Additional coursework in architecture and communication systems security.
• Semester abroad at University of Edinburgh, Scotland with coursework in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, logical programming, and Scottish ethnology.
• Thesis on 3D In-Context Visualization for Probabilistic Tractography
• Specialization: Computer Graphics and Visualization (majority of coursework).
• Minor: Biology.
• Additional coursework in architecture and communication systems security.
• Semester abroad at University of Edinburgh, Scotland with coursework in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, logical programming, and Scottish ethnology.

GPA: 4.0

• Thesis on Merging Triangulated Meshes
• Specialized in Human Computer Interaction.
• Minor: Mathematics.
• Additional elective coursework in software engineering and communication systems.
• Thesis on Merging Triangulated Meshes
• Specialized in Human Computer Interaction.
• Minor: Mathematics.
• Additional elective coursework in software engineering and communication systems.