Résumé
Research experience, education, selected projects, and technical skills.
Education
University of Texas at El Paso
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence · GPA: 4.0
Expected May 2027
New Mexico State University
B.M. in Instrumental Performance · GPA: 3.85
Aug. 2019 – May 2023
Research experience
Army HBCU-MI SPARK
Research Fellow · Summer 2026
- Selected to conduct CyberAI research at UTEP.
- Co-developed cyber Capture-the-Flag scenarios and infrastructure with ARL and TDAC.
- Contributed to ModelScope, a benchmarking platform for autonomous AI agents.
Cybersecurity Rapid Innovation Group (CyberRIG), UTEP
Research Assistant · 2026 – present
- Research applied defenses for autonomous AI systems and translate findings into prototype tools.
- Contribute to practical security exercises and research workshops.
Selected projects
Blue Cheese
Implemented Suricata JSON alert ingestion and normalization. Designed a modular multi-agent workflow for triage, correlation, investigation, and reporting; live ingestion is in development.
LLM Uncertainty Signals for Cybersecurity Analysis
Investigating stated confidence and token-level uncertainty as predictors of LLM correctness. Planned evaluation uses logistic regression, shallow trees, AUROC, Brier score, calibration, and feature ablation.
ModelScope
Autonomous-agent benchmarking with configurable plugins, objective ground truth, and real-time task, speed, resource, and policy-compliance metrics.
SpecGuard
Hybrid vulnerability detection using static analysis, LLM reasoning, RAG, and evaluation against 1,999 CVEs.
Evacuation Optimization Simulator
Multi-agent graph simulation with congestion-aware Dijkstra and Floyd-Warshall routing.
Technical skills
Programming
Java, Python, SQL, PHP, JavaScript
AI & data systems
scikit-learn, regression, decision trees, model evaluation, RAG, LangChain, ChromaDB, Ollama, llama.cpp
Cybersecurity
Network analysis, authentication systems, vulnerability assessment, ethical hacking, NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Tools & systems
Linux, Docker, Suricata, Wireshark, Git, object-oriented design
Certifications
- Google Cybersecurity Certificate, Coursera (2025)