Education

Academic background and coursework.

U

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Sep 2025 - Dec 2026 (Expected)
B.S. Information Sciences, Minor in Statistics
U
Active Duty • Operations Research • Previously held TS/SCI Clearance

Coursework

Relevant academic courses across disciplines.

Intro Database Concepts & Apps

IS 455

400-level

Relational database concepts, querying, and applied data applications

Data Storytelling

IS 457

400-level

Turning analysis into clear narratives for product and stakeholder decisions

Graph Databases

IS 460

400-level

Graph modeling and queries for connected data and relationship-driven insights

Concepts of Machine Learning

IS 467

400-level

Core ML concepts for prediction, evaluation, and applied modeling

Ethics & Policy for Data Science

IS 490E

400-level

Ethical and policy frameworks for data, AI, and responsible system design

Global FinTech Analytics

IS 490F

400-level

Analytics for financial technology products, markets, and decision systems

Prin/AF Elect & Cyber Systems

ECE 315

300-level

Electronics and cyber systems principles relevant to secure, networked environments

Race, Gender, and Info Tech

IS 308

300-level

Equity and identity in technology design, access, and socio-technical outcomes (Fall 2026)

Writing Across Media

INFO 303

300-level

Composing for written, visual, and digital media (Fall 2026)

Mapping Inequalities

IS 312

300-level

Spatial and data-driven approaches to understanding inequality and access

Intro/Programming for Analysts

COMPSCI 212

200-level

Programming methods for analytical workflows and decision support

Social Aspects of Info Tech

IS 202

200-level

How people, organizations, and society shape, and are shaped by, information systems (Fall 2026)

Research Design in Info Sciences

IS 204

200-level

Research design for studying information behavior, systems, and impact (Fall 2026)

Analytical Foundations of Info Problems

IS 203

200-level

Structured approaches to framing and solving information problems

Programming for Info Problems

IS 206

200-level

Applied programming for information tasks, data handling, and tooling

User Research & Evaluation

IS 226

200-level

User research methods to evaluate products, interfaces, and information experiences

Intro to Computing & Cyber Ops

COMPSCI 110

100-level

Computing foundations and cyber operations context for socio-technical systems

Exploring the iSchool

IS 100

100-level

Overview of information sciences pathways, methods, and applied problem spaces (Fall 2026)

Intro to Information Sciences

IS 107

100-level

Core concepts in information, data, and technology in society

Languages

Python
SQL
R
MATLAB

AI & Agents

LLM Evaluation
Prompt & Rubric Design
MCP Servers
Agentic Workflows
Machine Learning
Bayesian Methods
Time Series Forecasting
Clustering (K-means)

Analytics & Visualization

Tableau
Streamlit
pandas
Jupyter
Stata
Excel
Exploratory Data Analysis
Dashboard Design

Data & Cloud

ETL Pipelines
Data Quality & Validation
AWS (Containers, Serverless, CI/CD)
Neo4j

Decision Science

Metric Design & Backtesting
Route & Supply-Chain Optimization
Genetic Algorithms
Econometrics & Causal Inference
Simulation (Simio, NetLogo)

Ways of Building

Git & GitHub
AI-Assisted Development (Claude, Cursor, Copilot)
Google Maps API