Recent Employment
Dartmouth College
Security of Machine Learning Systems | cURRENT
Working with George Cybenko at exploring the security of machine learned systems through methods connected to formal languages and algebraic topology.
Systems & Technology Research
Integer Discrete Flows for Sequential Data | June 2020 - August 2020, December 2020 - January 2021
Introduced and studied a variant of Hoogebloom et al.’s integer discrete flows (IDFs) to work on variable length sequential data.
Department of Defense
Multi-Modal Similarity Search | December 2019 - January 2020, June 2019 - August 2019
Applied my multidisciplinary experiences in collaboration with defense contractors and government customers towards developing next generational capabilities to support Department of Defense missions.
Recent Projects
Poisoning Q-Learned Anti-Jamming Systems
Poisoning Attacks on Reinforcement Learned Jamming Defenses | September 2020 - November 2020
Demonstrated the effectiveness of physically realizable adversarial machine learning attacks towards disarming Q-learning anti-jamming defenses. Roughly speaking, our attacks ‘teaches’ the defending system to avoid sending packets by poisoning the environmental rewards. As such, the jammer can achieve their goal with less energy, and less engagement.
Tanzania During COVID-19
Superstition, Disinformation, and Political Opportunity | March 2020 - May 2020
Web scraped gigabytes of data off the Tanzanian social network Jamii Forms, and performed an exploratory data analysis to understand the political landscape of Tanzania during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Used a wide range of analytic tools from multi-lingual NLP to graph metrics like eigen-centrality, and found significant disapproval of John Magufuli, and negativity around COVID-19.
ANALYSIS OF New-Type Warfare Attacks on America’s Agricultural SYSTEM
Cybersecurity and information warfare in America’s Agricultural Sector
Applied my technical experience with disruptive technologies in a policy context to study how precision agricultural technologies are making America’s agricultural sector vulnerable to asymmetric warfare tactics. Proposed concrete, technical research directions which will be necessary to increase our resiliency to such tactics.
Education
Dartmouth COLLEGE
PhD in Computer Science
Current Student
Carnegie Mellon UNIVERSITY
Discrete Math & Logic with Minor in Computer Science
Graduated May 2015