Systems Administrator · Denison University · Granville, OH

Applied ML · 2026

MedCompress

Compression-as-clinical-context: condensing long medical documents into structured, faithful summaries that downstream LLM pipelines and decision-support workflows can actually consume.

NLPLLMsHealth

Deep Learning · Aug–Dec 2023

Image Caption Generator

End-to-end image captioning pipeline using VGG16 as a CNN encoder paired with an LSTM decoder, trained on Flickr 30k. CUDA-tuned for parallel batch processing, evaluated with BLEU, presented at the 47th Annual Beloit Student Symposium.

PyTorchTensorFlowCUDALSTMVGG16

Deep Learning · Jan–May 2023

Climate Change Analysis & Classification

SOM-based unsupervised clustering of geographic regions by atmospheric pattern, layered with ANN and CNN classifiers to identify regions with the strongest climate change signal. Reported with confusion matrices on global maps.

PyTorchSOMANNCNN

Deep Learning · 2023

Heart Failure Classification

Binary classification models using RNN and CNN on the UCI Heart Failure Clinical Records dataset, predicting mortality risk from clinical features. Compared with K-Means and SOM clustering to surface patient groupings before supervised training.

PyTorchRNNCNNK-Means

NLP · 2023

Fake News Detection

Text classification pipeline on the Kaggle Fake News dataset using tokenization, stopword removal, stemming, and TF-IDF vectorization. Compared Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, and Random Forest classifiers across a held-out test set.

Pythonscikit-learnTF-IDF

Data Mining · 2022–2023

Insurance Cost Prediction

Full data mining workflow on an insurance cost dataset: exploratory analysis, feature engineering, and training of ANN, SVM, and Decision Tree regressors. Compared by RMSE and R² with feature-importance visualizations.

scikit-learnANNSVMDecision Tree

Systems · 2022–2023

Active Directory account lifecycle automation

Python automation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux managing the full student account lifecycle in Active Directory, triggered by enrollment and departure events. REST API workflows synchronized account data with upstream HR and registrar systems; cron-scheduled Python pipelines generated lifecycle reports on a daily and weekly basis.

PythonPowerShellActive DirectoryRHEL

Internship · Jun–Aug 2023

Network operations and reporting automation

Supported Cisco switch firmware upgrades across state broadcast facilities, automated recurring reporting and billing workflows in Microsoft Power Automate, and produced technical network documentation including topology diagrams and runbooks.

CiscoPower AutomateDocumentation