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Academic life

Academic journey

My path began in aerospace engineering, then moved through data science into the study of complex healthcare operations. Along the way, I've learned from research teams, classrooms, leadership work, and industry.

Journey ↓Experience ↓Recognition ↓Teaching & service ↓

01 / Learning

Education

2023–

Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering

University of Massachusetts Amherst · Advisor: Muge Capan

2018–20

M.S. in Aerospace Engineering

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2014–18

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

02 / Practice

Experience

2026

Research Intern · OptiStatim LLC

Integrated healthcare and socioeconomic data across 39 states to study post-acute care and hospital length of stay; developed sepsis benchmarking analyses and reproducible workflows for healthcare decision support.

2021

Data Science Fellow · NYC Data Science Academy

Worked on predictive modeling, SQL and BigQuery analysis, and an R Shiny application for marketplace analytics.

2020–21

Data Science & Machine Learning Intern · Condition Black

Developed speech and text-processing workflows and worked on named entity recognition and responsible handling of sensitive data.

2016–18

Pointing Payload Team Lead · CAPSat, UIUC

Led a nine-person engineering team developing and validating satellite pointing payload systems, including hardware testing and design reviews with NASA.

03 / Milestones

Fellowships & recognition

  1. 2025–27
    UMass Leadership Fellow

    NSF-funded academic leadership program; selected as one of 24 fellows from 193 applicants.

  2. 2025–26
    Murthy Fellowship · UMass Amherst
  3. 2025
    Second place team · IISE DAIS Student Analytics Competition
  4. 2024
    Winning team · Technology Association of Georgia Master Modeler Competition
  5. 2024
    UMass MIE Department Fellowship
  6. 2017
    Jo Ann Haynes Platt and Daniel Wall Platt Memorial Award · UIUC
  7. 2014
    FMC Award of Excellence & Lee H. Sentman Scholarship · UIUC

04 / Community

Teaching & service

Teaching

  1. 2026
    Teaching Assistant · ENGIN 113 Introduction to Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

    UMass Amherst

  2. 2025
    Project Lead & Instructor · Summer Engineering Institute

    UMass Amherst

  3. 2017–21
    Teaching assistant, course development & grading · UIUC

    Aerospace engineering, numerical methods, flight mechanics, structures, and linear algebra courses.

Service

  1. 2026–
    Student Volunteer · IISE Modeling and Simulation Division Board
  2. 2025
    Paper Reviewer · Winter Simulation Conference & IISE Annual Conference
  3. 2023–25
    Graduate Student Representative · UMass MIE Graduate Leadership Council
  4. 2024
    Program Organizer · UMass MIE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
  5. 2023–26
    Blog Manager · UMass Student Chapter of INFORMS

For the complete record, including competitions and technical skills, download my CV ↗.