A little about me

I’m a Research Associate in the Multimodal Vision Research Lab at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Nathan Jacobs. My work sits where computer vision meets geography: how to represent places on a sphere so a network can learn from them, and how to find where an image was taken when the gallery is the whole planet.

I got here sideways. I studied mathematics at the University of Missouri and spent most of my undergraduate years in neuroscience labs, first maintaining ion-channel simulation software in the Milescu lab, then building a low-cost, low-latency experiment control system in the Ozden lab that we presented at SfN and ABRCMS. After graduating I managed clinical datasets for the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center at WashU, then moved to Austin to work as a systems engineer at Uhnder, a startup building digital-code-modulation radar for cars. Three years of link budgets, sensor characterization and test automation later, I came back to St. Louis for an M.S. in Computer Science at WashU, which I finished in May 2026.

During the master’s I joined MVRL as a graduate researcher, co-authored Tessellating the Earth (ECCV 2026), and started a project on efficient retrieval for image geolocalization; the paper is now under review. I also served as the teaching assistant for CSE 4470, Automata & Theory of Computation, in Spring 2026.

On the side I’m Chief Scientist at 1088 Advisors, a small strategy consultancy that helps universities understand and grow their research enterprise. I own the data and modeling side: pulling together public funding, publication and patent data, benchmarking institutions against their peers, and clustering a campus’s research output into the themes a strategy can actually be built around.

Away from a keyboard I’m usually at a piano, cooking, or in the gym.