Home and Research

Welcome!

I am an active duty Army officer currently assigned to the Advanced Civil Schooling Program. I am privileged to be pursuing my PhD at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), School of Computer Science (SCS). I am studying in the Institute of Software Research's (ISR) Computation, Organizations and Society Program (COS) program - a multi-disciplinary program combining computer science, statistical and network methods, theories and findings from the social, organizational, management and policy sciences. My advisor is Dr. Kathleen M. Carley.

Research

My research mission is to contribute to analysis and assessment of resilient command and control in contested cyber environments. Specifically I am seeking to help Department of Defense decision makers better understand the interplay between people, organizations, beliefs, tasks, knowledge, resources (including technical communications infrastructure) and how that interplay affects the ability of chains of command continue to execute their missions during contested cyber environments. I have also been involved in developing methods and technologies to apply dynamic network and meta-network analysis to crisis de-escalation and nuclear deterrence.

My research at University of Florida was related to format independent change detection and propagation (FCDP) in XML files and its support to ubiquitous computing under Dr. Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal and Dr. Joachim Hammer.