I am an AI Engineer and researcher at Vanderbilt University's Amplify Generative AI Innovation Center, where I build and deploy enterprise AI systems at scale. I am a lead developer of Amplify, an open-source generative AI platform now serving 18,000+ users at Vanderbilt and deployed across a community of universities throughout the United States. I also develop Majk, an agentic desktop application that coordinates specialized AI agents to complete complex tasks for university staff and researchers.
Our center has grown from a 3-person team to a 7-person team, and I manage undergraduate and graduate student developers contributing to our platform development and research. I lead AI training and workshops for the entire Vanderbilt community - thousands of staff, faculty, students, and administrators - and have coached Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier personally on AI tools. I also led the Amplify Staff Fellows program, a cohort-based initiative that created AI power users across university departments, completing two cohorts with roughly 20 staff each.
My research focuses on LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI safety. I have authored and co-authored four peer-reviewed papers - my primary research paper has 15 citations - and have an upcoming paper surveying AI guardrail and protection systems. I have presented at Notre Dame's 2024 AI Forum and taught a 4-day course on prompt engineering and LLMs at the ACACES 2025 Summer School in Europe, a program attended by PhD candidates from universities across the continent. I was also featured on NPR's "Up First" discussing AI's impact on higher education.
The Amplify Generative AI Innovation Center was named a 2025 AWS Champion by the Center for Digital Government and the Center for Digital Education - recognizing our commitment to advancing open-source AI access for higher education and the public sector.
I graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BS in Computer Science in May 2023. Before joining the Innovation Center, I spent two summers at Aimbridge Hospitality as an IT Intern, where I built automation systems that delivered over $150,000 in cost savings and restructured $2M in annual Microsoft license management across 1,500 hotel properties.