Resume/CV
Work and Volunteer Experience:
Research Assistant/Lab Manager September 2025-September 2026 Post-Bacc position at the Semantic Plasticity of Neural Systems, “SPiNS” Lab, SUNY Binghamton. PI Sarah Solomon.
Early Career Researcher, “Student Red Hen” April 2023 – Present:
The Distributed Little Red Hen Lab at Case Western Reserve University. Project Lead, Automatic recognition for co-speech gesture. Collaboration with MULTIDATA, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, and CWRU HPC. PI Mark Turner.
New York State Interior Firefighter. March 2022 – Present
March 2022 – July 2023 Orchard Park Fire Company, Orchard Park NY
July 2023 Company Commander and Salutatorian, Erie County Department of Homeland Security BEFO-IFO boot camp.
July 2023 – Present Windom Volunteer Fire Company.
December 2024 – Nominated for promotion to Lt. 7, Windom 7 Heavy Rescue Apparatus.
Sailing Instructor. August 2021 – August 2024
August 2021 – August 2024, Intro to Race Instructor, Buffalo Yacht Club Foundation.
June 2022 – August 2022, Sailing Instructor, Seattle Yacht Club.
July 2022 – August 2022, Sailing Instructor, Laurelhurst Beach Club.
Barista. April 2021 – August 2021. Tea Leaf Café, Hamburg NY.
Volunteer Avian Rehabilitator. April 2020 – August 2021. Messinger Woods Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
Conferences/Publications
International Society of Gesture Study 10 7/9-12/2025. Talk: Automated Co-speech Gesture Recognition Link
Intersections Case Western Reserve University, 4/18/2025. Poster: Automated Co-speech Gesture Recognition using Pre-trained Visual Transformers Link
Technical Skills
Programming
Proficiency in Python and R, experience with C++, CUDA, HTML, CSS, swift, JavaScript.
3+ years experience with linux/unix data structures and command line, structuring and running jobs on a high-performance computing cluster.
3+ years experience with Pytorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace, training and evaluating models, fine tuning, and prompting of machine learning models, primarily visual transformers.
2+ years experience working with LLMs and other systems involved with Natural Language Processing (NLP).
3+ years working with large dataset analysis, especially audio-visual data and multimodal large data processing.
Leadership
2+ years leading a research project with multiple contributors developing a pipeline for automated co-speech gesture recognition.
3+ years working with emergency management in NYS Firefighting, including leadership roles in academy and in acute rescue settings.
5+ years helming sailboats competitively, both buoy racing and onshore.
Language
Native English speaker, high technical/academic writing proficiency.
12 years of study in Quebecois French, to B2 proficiency. Ability to read and write technical/medical documents.
3 years study in Japanese.
1 year study in Te Reo Māori.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science in Biology with department honors in Cognitive Science (GPA > 3.8), Expected graduation August 2025. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH. January 2022 – August 2025.
Semester abroad at University of Auckland, New Zealand. February 2024 – June 2024.
Semester at Fordham University, September 2021 – December 2021. (Transferred to CWRU)
NYS Advanced Regents Diploma. September 2017 – June 2021, Orchard Park High School. Seal of Biliteracy in French (B2 Fluency), Honors.
University at Buffalo Summer Masterclass in Cybersecurity, July 2017.