Lead design and deployment of production-scale voice commerce systems enabling real-time, multi-turn conversational AI for financial applications. Developed a novel preference optimization framework (CM-DPO).
Research Assistant
University of Houston
Conducted research in AI reasoning, smart contract translation, code generation, medical diagnosis, and decentralized infrastructures (DlaC, FaaS).
Senior Software Engineer
Clearedin
Designed and implemented advanced policy threat detection engines, URL scanning, phishing detection algorithms, and maliciousemail classification.
Machine Learning Lead
Fireflies.ai
Developed and deployed an on-premise Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engine based on Deep Speech. Built the first ML team.
Research Associate
Mozilla Research
Conducted in-depth research to optimize parallelism and performance of Virtual Reality in WebGL/Three.js.
Summer Research Intern
IBM Almaden Research Center
Developed patented multi-factor authentication system (US11025643B2) integrating biometrics and blockchain.
Summer Research Intern
IBM Almaden Research Center
Developed a tamper-evident mobile application solution verifying application integrity using ARM TrustZone and blockchain.
Researcher
IBM T J Watson Research Lab
Embedded NLP and cognitive computing into Watson solutions.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Created automated mobile hardware and software testing solutions leveraging OpenCV.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Houston
Dissertation: “Teaching AI’s to reason and Code, Confidentially” — Best Dissertation Award / Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Advisor: Prof. Weidong (Larry) Shi
M.S. in Computer Science
Rice University
Specialized in High Performance Computing & Web VR.
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Large Language Models (LLMs) & Reasoning
Blockchain & Smart Contracts
Distributed & Decentralized Systems
Systems & Security Programming
WebVR & WebGL Graphics
Awards
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
ACM ∙
November 2025
For ‘Securing the Multi-Chain Ecosystem: A Unified, Agent-Based Framework for Vulnerability Repair in Solidity and Move’.
Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
University of Houston ∙
October 2025
Awarded to the top PhD dissertation in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Outstanding PhD Student
University of Houston ∙
May 2024
Recognized as Outstanding PhD Student for 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.
Google Cloud Research Innovator
Google ∙
January 2023
Sui Academic Research Award
Sui Foundation ∙
January 2025
Awarded Sui Foundation Research Grants in 2023 ($15k), 2024 ($25k), and 2025 ($25k).