About Me

I am a Senior Scientist in the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia (UVA).

From 2011 to 2013 I worked as an Industrial Engineer for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory located at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.

I received my Ph.D.¹⁰ in Industrial Engineering from the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University in May 2011. My co-advisors were Dr. Thom Hodgson and Dr. Kristin Thoney-Barletta.

I received my Master of Operations Research degree from NC State in May 2008.

I attended the College of William & Mary for my undergraduate where I received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in May 2006.

I enjoy applying Operations Research techniques and methods to various application domains. I have built agent-based simulation models, stochastic discrete event simulation models, and simulation-optimization models for

• Strategic fuel planning at theater entry points
• Operational fuel planning in-theater
• Designing Army patrol districts
• Worker allocation in a dual resource constrained job shop

I am also interested in data science and predictive modeling problems and have worked on projects to

• Estimate the prevalence of obesity in Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Health District
• Optimize dosing for end stage renal disease (ESRD)-induced anemia
• Predict pedestrian risk of injury based on vehicle front end design

Examples of my data visualization work can be found here.

I program primarily using Python, and use Pandas, Numpy, and Scipy for my data analysis needs.