Austin, Texas | October 2025 - Present
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Texas at Austin - Discourse Lab
- Developing psycholinguistically-grounded evaluation system for verbal uncertainty in LLM-generated medical evidence synthesis
- Built automated pipeline processing 150+ GPT-4o responses across 3 experimental conditions using Azure OpenAI APIs
- Designed JSON-structured uncertainty detection framework integrating 50 years of meta-analytic research on probability expressions
- Collaborating with Kaijie Mo to prepare findings for publication on uncertainty expression in clinical AI systems
Houston, Texas | May 2025 - September 2025
Research Assistant for Dr. Hayden
Baylor College of Medicine - Hayden Lab
- Transcribing and analyzing 4000 verbal responses from epilepsy patients performing arithmetic tasks to study cognitive-linguistic processing
- Annotated and extracted acoustic features in Praat, enabling precise prosody analysis for epilepsy patient study
- Transcribed morphemes and syntax using LLMs to analyze the neuro system and improved model by 12%
Dallas, Texas | July 2024 - February 2025
Research Assistant, Co-Author w/ Dr. Labiba
Southern Methodist University - CS Department
- Published to CoNLL-2025 on socioeconomic status prediction using Reddit data and linguistic indicators
- Engineered NLP pipelines with Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, and transformer models for interpretable classification
- Preprocessed and analyzed 30,000+ Reddit entries with NLTK and SpaCy using n-grams, sentiment, and LDA topic modeling
Southlake, Texas | September 2024 - February 2025
AI Software Engineering Intern
Product Manager Accelerator
- Designed a college match platform using machine learning, speech-to-text, and a Siri-style accessibility interface
- Delivered a top-3 final product pitch through a live demo and roadmap presentation
Remote | September 2024 - Present
Machine Learning Intern
ANIML.HEALTH - Project BALTO
- Collaborating on advanced ML models for predicting animal health and improving veterinary diagnostics
- Applied NLP methods to medical literature and health records for data-driven clinical strategy
- Performed data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature engineering to improve predictive accuracy
Southlake, Texas | 2022 - May 2025
Designer & Coder
VEX Robotics - Southlake Carroll Chapter
- Progressed from primary C++ coder to design specialist for pneumatics, catapult, and robot architecture
- Maintained engineering notebook documenting design strategy and implementation that supported design award wins
- Ranked top 10 in tournaments during 11th grade and qualified for VEX Robotics World Championship
