About
I work on the machine learning that has to survive contact with hardware.
Right now that means a digital twin for a glass fiber furnace at the Northwest Ohio Innovation Consortium, and a master’s thesis on hip osteoporosis risk from CT imaging. Before that, three assignments at the Ohio Department of Transportation, two published papers and a granted patent.
I build machine learning systems for physical processes — furnaces, hip scans, roads, microscopes — where the measurement is as hard as the model. Drifting instrumentation, unlabelled imagery, boundaries that genuinely are not sharp.
The through-line across my research is hybrid fuzzy–deep learning: a fuzzy layer to handle the ambiguity, a deep model to learn the structure underneath it. Fuzzy C-Means with a CNN for tumour margins that blur into healthy tissue. A fuzzy inference layer with a deep LSTM for unstained cells. Fuzzy logic control with gradient boosting for thermocouples submerged in molten glass. Same method, three fields, because they are the same class of problem.
Right now I am an ML engineer at the Northwest Ohio Innovation Consortium, building a digital twin for a glass fiber furnace — a virtual sensor that keeps reading when the physical one fails, a forecaster, and an optimiser that pre-positions the furnace hours ahead of a production change. Before that, three assignments at the Ohio Department of Transportation, an API team internship at Park Place Technologies, two published papers, and a third under review.
The earliest of those papers is the one carrying the credential I am least likely to repeat. FlowerBot, an undergraduate robotics project on a flower-plucking arm, was published at IEEE ICECA 2022 and granted as patent IN 573184 in October 2025 — the same shape as everything since, vision applied to a messy physical process where the measurement is the hard part.
I am partway through a master’s in computer science engineering at the University of Toledo, which finishes in Summer 2027. I am looking for full-time ML engineering and research roles from then, and for internships in the meantime.
Timeline
When it happened
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2022
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2023–24
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2024
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2025
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2026
Education
Where I trained
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University of Toledo
MS Computer Science Engineering
Summer 2026 – Summer 2027
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University of Toledo
BS Computer Science Engineering
2023–2026 · Magna cum laude
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Kalasalingam University
Computer Science Engineering
2021–2023
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University of Toledo
GPA 3.92
Research & publications
Two published, one under review
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Neural Computing and Applications, Springer Nature
Fuzzy deep LSTM for cancer cell death analysis
Published — citation pending
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2022 6th International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology (ICECA), IEEE, pp. 1153–1157
FlowerBot: a deep learning aided robotic process to detect and pluck flowers
Published 1 December 2022 — cited by 7
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MS thesis research, University of Toledo
Hip osteoporosis risk from CT imaging and clinical data
Under review
Community & leadership
Where I turn up outside the work
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ACM, University of Toledo Chapter
SecretaryACM University of Toledo Chapter
30% increase in member engagement
Certifications
Credentials I hold
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
Deep Neural Networks with PyTorch