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- May 2025 Honor
Ph.D. Conferred — University of Virginia
Completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, advised by Sebastian Elbaum. Dissertation focused on testing and analysis techniques for AI/ML-enabled safety-critical autonomous systems.
- May 2025 Position
Joined RAND Corporation as Information Scientist
Joined RAND Corporation as an Information Scientist, studying questions at the intersection of AI reliability, safety, and technology policy.
- Feb 2025 Service
Reviewer — IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Invited to review for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), one of the flagship journals in software engineering research.
- Feb 2025 Service
Program Committee — ISSTA 2026
Invited to serve on the Program Committee for the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2026.
- Jan 2025 Publication
Paper at AAAI DATASAFE Workshop 2025
Presented NaturalAdv: An Exploratory Framework to Balance Adversarial Strength and Stealth in Autonomous Driving Environments at the AAAI Workshop on Datasets and Evaluators of AI Safety.
- Sep 2024 Service
Reviewer — IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IROS 2024)
Reviewed papers for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters as part of the IROS 2024 review cycle.
- Sep 2024 Service
Reviewer — IEEE Transactions on Cyberphysical Systems
Reviewed a research paper for IEEE Transactions on Cyberphysical Systems.
- Sep 2024 Award
Copenhaver Graduate Fellowship — UVA SEAS
Awarded the University of Virginia Copenhaver Graduate Fellowship for the 2024–2025 academic year. Fellowship is awarded by a panel of SEAS faculty for research excellence ($12,000).
- Aug 2024 Service
Reviewer — IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Reviewed a research paper for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
- May 2024 Service
Reviewer — ICRA 2024
Reviewed two papers for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024.
- Apr 2024 Service
Program Committee — ASE ASYDE Workshop 2024
Served on the program committee for the ASYDE Workshop on Automated and verifiable Software sYstem DEvelopment, co-located with ASE 2024. Reviewed three papers.
- Mar 2024 Publication
Paper Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
PreFixer: Automated Generation of Transformations to Mitigate Sensor Changes in ADS published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Work addresses the problem of sensor hardware versioning breaking downstream perception models.
- Dec 2023 Workshop
SE4SafeML Workshop — Organizing Committee Lead @ FSE 2023
Organized and led the Workshop on Dependability and Trustworthiness of Safety-Critical Systems with Machine Learned Components, co-located with FSE 2023. The workshop was the highest-attended at FSE ‘23 with 44 attendees.
- Sep 2023 Service
Leadership Alliance Mentor (2023–2024)
Mentored six undergraduate students from underrepresented groups in research projects through the Leadership Alliance program.
- May 2023 Award
UVA University-wide Graduate Teaching Award
Awarded the University of Virginia’s university-wide Graduate Teaching Award for excellence in teaching and novel contributions to the CS curriculum. First CS student to receive the award since 2008.
- Apr 2023 Service
CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women 2023
Selected to attend and speak at the Computing Research Association’s Grad Cohort for Women, presenting on mentoring work and upcoming research.