Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Computer Science Texas A&M University. Advisor: Dr. J. A. Hamilton. Area: AI security and evaluation.

M.C.S., Computer Science Texas A&M University. GPA 3.80.

B.A., Computing, Cybersecurity concentration Texas A&M University. GPA 3.61.

Graduate Research Assistant, Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center Adaptive attacks on prompt-injection defenses and on the cascades that escalate uncertain inputs to LLM judges; reliability of LLM-as-judge evaluation; source conflict and uncertainty in retrieval-augmented generation; benchmark design for research agents; certified search for quantum query algorithms.

Undergraduate Researcher, Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center Cyber-physical security of industrial control networks: digital-twin and hybrid simulation tooling that generates intrusion-detection training data, gradient-boosted trees for APT identification, and an NSF INSuRE+E project on active port scanning in SCADA networks. Presented to scientists at Los Alamos and Idaho National Laboratories.

Guest Instructor, PSAA 608 Cybersecurity Policy Issues & Operations Bush School of Government & Public Service. Wrote the course's six hands-on labs from scratch with their datasets and answer keys, built the course VMs, and teach 8 of the 15 weeks under the faculty instructor of record.

Teaching Assistant, CSCE 489/712 Digital Forensics Build the graded assignments: forensic evidence with planted ground truth, a blinded steganalysis benchmark mixing classical and LLM-generated payloads, and hidden tests.

Capstone Mentor Undergraduate capstone teams on projects sponsored by the U.S. Space Force.

Network Engineer, Texas Cyber Range Built and maintained physical and virtual test networks (OSPF, DHCP, DNS, NAT; Xen Orchestra), selected network-management software for on-demand test environments, and oversaw installation of Palo Alto and Cisco equipment.

IT Audit Intern, USAA Fieldwork and testing for access-management and mainframe security audits; evaluated RACF and Vanguard security controls.

CyberCorps Scholarship for Service

Cyber Leader Development Program SMC Cyber Institutes at Texas A&M. Competitively selected.

VICEROY Scholarship

CompTIA Security+

Eagle ScoutBoy Scouts of America.

Blue Team Officer, Texas A&M Cybersecurity Club Lead and train teams for the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, NSA NCX, and DOE CyberForce; developed course material for the Corps of Cadets Cyber Operations Special Unit.

Board Member, Student Affairs Fee Advisory Board Helped prepare the board's budget recommendation to the Vice President for Student Affairs; secured $184,000 of the year's $750,000 for the departments I represented.

Prompt injection (direct and indirect), adaptive attacks (GCG, black-box search), LLM-as-judge design and auditing, RAG evaluation, rubric and answer-key design, blinded human annotation.

PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, llama.cpp, scikit-learn; bootstrap intervals, DeLong and Fisher tests, paired and A/A controls, AUROC and selective prediction.

Python, Bash, C/C++, Git, pytest, Docker, Linux, Slurm HPC, Playwright, LaTeX.

Digital forensics (Autopsy, Wireshark), steganalysis, ICS/SCADA, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST RMF, CTF offense and defense.