Who I am, what I do, and what I know.
I'm a sophomore at JMU studying computer science with a cybersecurity focus. I'm minoring in Russian and taking the advanced math courses because I like them. Most of my time goes to competitions, club work and projects.
I started on the defense side, running a Palo Alto firewall for MACCDC, and I keep getting pulled toward offense. I like both. Defense is what keeps systems standing, and red teaming is how you find out whether it does. Right now I lean red team, but I'm just as happy shipping a product.
I use AI a lot, and on purpose. I work with agentic tools every day, I've studied hosting models locally, and I built an agent loop that solved the VMI CyberFusion challenges well inside the time limit. I read what these tools write and I know what I'm shipping. They let me build more than I could alone. They don't replace knowing how it works. This site is a small example: I don't enjoy front-end work, so I directed AI to build it and made the design calls myself.
I like math both ways, the theory for its own sake and the useful kind: calculus, linear algebra, geometry. It's also why machine learning interests me. The math is the interesting part, and the applications are real. At CCI I work on the security of an ML system that detects impairment from eye movements.
I've lived in Frankfurt, Germany; Moscow, Russia; and Beijing, China, and I'm now minoring in Russian. I speak English and Russian, with a little Chinese and German.
Long term I want to work on national security as a cybersecurity or software engineer, or in AI and ML. I'm proud of this country and I want to help protect its people. I'm open to private and public sector work along the way.
Off the keyboard I skateboard and train Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
HGN-Sense uses ML to spot Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus eye movements and flag impairment for public safety. I'm the security person: AES-256-GCM encryption of subjects' biometric data, protection for the model weights, and anti-spoofing so the system can't be tricked.
Shipped AI search results and AI sticker and text generation to production on a greeting card platform, and researched local AI hosting.
Running a club of about 10 people.
Working with the university on cost-effective lab infrastructure for a club of about 25 members.