Curriculum vitae

PhD in Computer ScienceGPA: 4.0/4.0

Advisor: Dr. Tingjun Lei

• Dissertation focus: autonomous ice resurfacers, including simulation, surface-aware service allocation, coverage planning, and cyber-physical resilience.
• Selected coursework: Robotics Fundamentals, Introduction to Autonomous Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Soft Computing & Computational Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems Security.

B.S. Computer Science · B.S. Computer Information Technology

Minors: Computer Information Systems & Entrepreneurship

• Summa Cum Laude · Dean's List (8 semesters) · ACHA Academic All-American 2018–2019
• Presented senior capstone research on deep learning for short-term cryptocurrency prediction at MSUM's annual student academic conference.

• Developing an autonomous ice resurfacing research platform spanning simulation, surface perception, coverage planning, adaptive water allocation, and cyber-physical resilience.
• Establishing the first dissertation study through the accepted CARS 2026 paper on task-state integrity attacks and low-cost defenses for fixed-route resurfacing.
• Building repeatable simulation and evaluation tools for experiments involving surface degradation, vehicle constraints, localization error, and adversarial observations.
• Extending the fixed-route baseline toward adaptive coverage and service planning that balance surface quality, time, water, and energy use.

• Built a CNN using TensorFlow for image-based classification of surface vegetation during a summer REU at the University of North Dakota, preceding enrollment as a PhD student at UND.

Founder & Lead Software Engineer

• Founded a software consultancy; architecting distributed systems with microservice pipelines (Django, .NET, Angular) and containerized CI/CD infrastructure.

Senior Software Engineer

• Developed embedded software for the Ecolab CoreTemp medical fluid warmer used in hospital settings, including FDA-regulated testing and compliance documentation.
• Led full-stack web and mobile projects across diverse clients; served as technical lead for the Cogi platform and the Arctic.gov website launch.

Software Engineer

• Architected serverless AWS infrastructure (Lambda, Step Functions) for high-volume healthcare systems, designing event-driven pipelines with system observability.

President & Founder

• Founded a 501(c)(3) non-profit to support MSUM hockey; manage finances, fundraising, and coordination across university administration, league officials, and community stakeholders.

Head Coach (Previously Founder/President)

• Built the program from scratch to 25+ members; lead all team operations including recruiting, scheduling, budgeting, and game-day strategy.