Research engineering across AI systems, biometric evaluation, and autonomous perception, grounded in a career in technical operations.
Clarkson University, AVHBAC Laboratory
Develop simulation and evaluation workflows for GNSS-denied navigation, state estimation, sensor fusion, and lunar surface perception. Investigate visual odometry, pose-graph optimization, and terrain-referenced localization. Released ofiqpy on PyPI under AVHBAC.
Kymera Systems LLC
Develop agentic and multi-agent research prototypes combining heterogeneous models, structured tool use, and evaluation workflows. Build verification workflows, experimental agent-memory systems, and open-source research tools as an individual contributor.
Clarkson University, CITeR
Conducted face-image-quality and biometric evaluation research involving attribution faithfulness, calibration, uncertainty, and data quality. Built reproducible Python workflows for counterfactual analysis, perturbation testing, and standards-oriented measurement.
Clarkson University
Advisor: Masudul H. Imtiaz.
Maryville University of Saint Louis
Conferred December 2024.
American Military University
Developed graduate-level materials and delivered nine guest lectures for EE622, covering advanced biometric systems and Transformer architectures across biometric modalities.
A free, 35-lesson curriculum from Python foundations through applied machine learning and XGBoost, with instructional notebooks and supporting materials.
Explore the curriculumInvited seminar, Clarkson University, January 22, 2026.
Three-session public research seminar series, Clarkson University, June 18, June 25, and July 2, 2026.
U.S. Army veteran with 15 years of technical operations and leadership experience, serving from August 2002 to January 2018.
At the Defense Health Agency, worked as an Educational Technology Specialist (2013 to 2015) and Data and Operations Analyst (2015 to 2018). Responsibilities included healthcare training systems, operational analysis, technology projects, information assurance, and data integrity.
The full CV also records earlier communications, logistics, healthcare technology, and web-development roles.
Biometric research at CITeR was supported under DHS Science and Technology Contract 70RSAT24CB0000022. My role was graduate researcher.
Grant-development work includes drafted, unsubmitted federal lunar surface autonomy proposal packages and a co-authored LAS 2027 abstract selected for a full-proposal invitation. These are proposal-development activities, not awarded funding.
Details in the academic CV (PDF)