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AIDA3 PurdueDoctoral Research Collaborator
Jan. 2025West Lafayette, Indiana, United States• Conducting pioneering research at the intersection of computational linguistics, natural language processing, and temporal logic, with emphasis on developing formal grammar approaches to parse spatiotemporal constraints in natural language for real-world applications. • Developing and evaluating novel frameworks that integrate Universal Dependency parsing with Signal Temporal Logic (STL) to address temporally ambiguous natural language instructions, enabling more precise reasoning about temporal constraints in automated systems. • Collaborating with interdisciplinary teams across engineering, law, healthcare, and social sciences to ensure AI systems effectively serve diverse communities while addressing ethical considerations and societal impacts. • Preparing and presenting research findings at premier international conferences and publishing in high-impact journals, contributing to the advancement of computational linguistics and conversational AI fields.
Woolpert (formerly Cooperative Strategies)AI Engineer
Jan. 2025 - Jun. 2025• Architected and developed advanced natural language understanding systems for regulatory documentation, enhancing machine interpretability. • Led the design of NLP solutions that improved document verification accuracy, significantly reducing manual review time. • Engineered intelligent planning tools using unsupervised and supervised learning, driving data-driven recommendations for strategic decisions.
Woolpert (formerly Cooperative Strategies)Consultant I
Jul. 2023 - Dec. 2024• Research, analyze, validate, and document effectiveness of school district strategies and proposed solutions aligning to goals and presented finds to school district official and school boards. • Review data provided by PK-12 school districts to ensure that the proper fees are assessed for renting facilities to the public and provide guidance for appropriate fees that could be charged. • Aggregated development and map and census data from a variety of sources to warehouse in a database to ensure that trustee area maps are produced with public input while in compliance of CVRA and Federal Voting Rights Act. • Assist with managing daily operations, changes, enhancements, and modifications to facilitate implementation of new or improved processes and exceeding the product delivery of overall customer satisfaction. • Coordinate research and analytic activities utilizing various data points (unstructured and structured) and employ programming to clean, massage, and organize the data to create tables and exhibits for various documents and statements.
Purdue UniversityResearch Fellow at Research Center for Open Digital Innovation
Jan. 2022 - Dec. 2024West Lafayette, Indiana, United States• Research focused on computational linguistics and natural language processing and their impact on user's perception of trust by developing a rule-based modeling of human language with statistical, machine learning, and deep learning models. • Leading multi-institutional collaborative research projects examining the impact of linguistic empathy in conversational AI systems, including controlled experiments measuring trust, perceived helpfulness, and user engagement across various domains. • Designing and implementing rule-based and hybrid AI systems that combine symbolic reasoning with machine learning approaches, focusing on the systemize-empathize effect of language in task-oriented conversational agents. • Collaborating with interdisciplinary teams across engineering, law, healthcare, and social sciences to ensure AI systems effectively serve diverse communities while addressing ethical considerations and societal impacts. • Preparing and presenting research findings at premier international conferences and publishing in high-impact journals, contributing to the advancement of computational linguistics and conversational AI fields. • Conducting quantitative analyses using advanced NLP metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of prompt engineering techniques in enhancing empathetic language generation in Large Language Models. • Designs and/or conducts complex experiments, investigations and/or studies related to programs and projects in pursuit of new knowledge, techniques and concepts.
Woolpert (formerly Cooperative Strategies)Senior Associate Director
Sep. 2021 - Jul. 2023Irvine, California, United States• Research, analyze, validate, and document effectiveness of school district strategies and proposed solutions aligning to goals and presented finds to school district official and school boards. • Review data provided by PK-12 school districts to ensure that the proper fees are assessed for renting facilities to the public and provide guidance for appropriate fees that could be charged. • Aggregated development and map and census data from a variety of sources to warehouse in a database to ensure that trustee area maps are produced with public input while in compliance of CVRA and Federal Voting Rights Act. • Assist with managing daily operations, changes, enhancements, and modifications to facilitate implementation of new or improved processes and exceeding the product delivery of overall customer satisfaction. • Coordinate research and analytic activities utilizing various data points (unstructured and structured) and employ programming to clean, massage, and organize the data to create tables and exhibits for various documents and statements. • Oversaw staff, to include but not limited to coaching, training, and regular staff meetings.
Woolpert (formerly Cooperative Strategies)Associate Director
Jan. 2021 - Aug. 2021United States• Responsible for calculating and enrolling over 60 million dollars Special Taxes on the tax roll for various counties from a variety of data sources to warehouse in a database and model the annual special taxes pursuant to the rate and method of apportionment for the acquisition, construction, and funding school facilities for PK-12 school districts. • Served as Special Tax Consultant in the issuance of over 750 million dollars in bonds and conduct quantitative analysis of various data points to forecast revenues and creditworthiness for the purposes of issuing bonds for the acquisition, construction, and funding school facilities for PK-12 school districts. • Led the Community Facilities Department in managing over 150 school district’s Community Facilities Districts. • Prepare and disseminate annual continuing disclosure reports to comply with the reporting requirements in the bond continuing disclosure agreement and SEC Rule 15c2-12(b)(5). • Prepare and file the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission Report pursuant to California Government Code 53359.5 for all Community Facilities Districts that have issued bonds.
Woolpert (formerly Cooperative Strategies)Senior Associate
Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2020Irvine, California, United States• Undertook data collection, built models, and presented information to school districts to address business problems and COVID concerns and presented findings to school district officials and school boards. • Administered Community Facilities Districts, which includes calculating Special Tax levies, enrolling taxes with the county, Disclosure reporting, and responding to property owner inquiries. • Work with various Counties to monitor parcel changes, tax delinquencies, and property ownership. • Aggregated development and map data from a variety of sources to warehouse in a database and model the annual special taxes pursuant to the rate and method of apportionment. • Prepare and disseminate annual continuing disclosure reports to comply with the reporting requirements in the bond continuing disclosure agreement and SEC Rule 15c2-12(b)(5). • Prepare and file the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission Report pursuant to California Government Code 53359.5 for all Community Facilities Districts that have issued bonds. • Oversaw staff, to include but not limited to coaching, training, and regular staff meetings. • Identified valuable data sources and automate collection processes and analyzed large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns. • Conduct quantitative analysis of various data points to forecast revenues and creditworthiness for the purposes of issuing bonds for the acquisition, construction, and funding school facilities for PK-12 school districts.
Woolpert (formerly Cooperative Strategies)Associate
May. 2018 - Dec. 2019Irvine, California• Administered Community Facilities Districts, which includes calculating Special Tax levies, enrolling taxes with the county, Disclosure reporting, and responding to property owner inquiries. • Aggregated development and map data from a variety of sources to warehouse in a database and model the annual special taxes pursuant to the rate and method of apportionment. • Prepare and disseminate annual continuing disclosure reports to comply with the reporting requirements in the bond continuing disclosure agreement and SEC Rule 15c2-12(b)(5). • Prepare and file the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission Report pursuant to California Government Code 53359.5 for all Community Facilities Districts that have issued bonds. • Consulted on projects as requested by senior management.
Nations Direct MortgageThird Party Vendor Manager
Apr. 2016 - May. 2018Santa Ana, California, United States• Vetted third party vendors to determine the level of risk associated with their submission quality. • Developed predictive risk models for securitized loan pool performance assessment using statistical analysis of aggregate borrower demographics, credit profiles, and market indicators to support portfolio management and investment decisions. • Conducted comprehensive statistical analysis of vendor performance metrics and KPIs, utilizing time series analysis and regression modeling to identify performance trends and optimization opportunities. • Implemented data-driven fraud detection methodologies using anomaly detection algorithms and statistical outlier analysis to identify suspicious loan applications and reduce compliance risk. • Managed the regulatory compliance program for the company including the compliance plan, risk assessments, monitoring and advisory activities. • Applied statistical modeling techniques to analyze compliance violations and regulatory trends, creating predictive indicators for potential compliance issues. • Monitored trends in data from each vendor to identify improvements or defects based on the vendor KPIs. • Established a standard vetting process and evaluation of continuing performance of approved vendors. • Established the current vendor management program and improved upon the processes. • Monitored and maintained Federal, State and Agency Licensing requirements & facilitating new state and/or federal licenses at the discretion of the CEO and COO. • Actively participated and collaborated with senior management in the development of the company’s strategic objectives, long and short-term goals and their effective and timely implementation to improve the day-to-day business. • Consulted on special projects as requested by senior management.
Nations Direct MortgageCompliance Analyst
Dec. 2008 - Apr. 2016Irvine, California, United States• Monitored trends in data from each vendor to identify improvements or defects. • Assisted with recommendations for implementation of controls regarding adherence to state and federal law, as well as agency guidelines. • Established a standard vetting process and evaluation of continuing performance of approved vendors.
Researched industry compliance regulations and policies and evaluated internal operational and procedural compliance. • Consulted on special projects as requested by senior management.
Macy'sSales Associate
Jul. 2006 - Aug. 2008Irvine, California, United States• Greeting customers when they walk through the door. • Building rapport through conversation and honest recommendations. • Ringing up sales and arranging for delivery or pick-up of the customer’s order if needed. • Inviting customers to search the company’s website for coupons and other ways to save money. • Informing customers of any extra charges if necessary. • Assisting in maintaining the back stock room and setting up merchandise displays on the sales floor. • Collaborating with fellow team members to keep the sales floor area clean and always organized.
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