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- Nov 2026 Service
Program Committee — ICST 2027
Invited to serve on the Program Committee for the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2027, located in San Sebastian, Spain.
- Oct 2026 Publication
Paper Published in ASME Journal on Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Adversarial Differentiable Rendering for Grasp Quality Convolutional Neural Networks published in ASME Journal on Autonomous Vehicle Systems (JAVS) October 2026. Work presents a novel differentiable implementation of the physics-based Canny-Ferrari grasp quality and a novel self-collision avoidance strategy to create...
- Aug 2026 Position
Joined the MITRE Corporation as Senior Autonomous Systems Engineer
Joined the MITRE Corporation as a Senior Autonomous Systems Engineer, performing testing and evaluation of AI-enabled robotic and edge systems and building prototypes and surrogate systems.
- May 2025 Honor
Ph.D. Conferred — University of Virginia
Completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, advised by Sebastian Elbaum. Dissertation focused on testing and analysis techniques for AI/ML-enabled safety-critical autonomous systems.
- May 2025 Position
Joined RAND Corporation as Information Scientist
Joined RAND Corporation as an Information Scientist, studying questions at the intersection of AI reliability, safety, and technology policy.
- Feb 2025 Service
Reviewer — IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Invited to review for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), one of the flagship journals in software engineering research.
- Feb 2025 Service
Program Committee — ISSTA 2026
Invited to serve on the Program Committee for the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2026.
- Jan 2025 Publication
Paper at AAAI DATASAFE Workshop 2025
Presented NaturalAdv: An Exploratory Framework to Balance Adversarial Strength and Stealth in Autonomous Driving Environments at the AAAI Workshop on Datasets and Evaluators of AI Safety.
- Sep 2024 Service
Reviewer — IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IROS 2024)
Reviewed papers for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters as part of the IROS 2024 review cycle.
- Sep 2024 Service
Reviewer — IEEE Transactions on Cyberphysical Systems
Reviewed a research paper for IEEE Transactions on Cyberphysical Systems.
- Sep 2024 Award
Copenhaver Graduate Fellowship — UVA SEAS
Awarded the University of Virginia Copenhaver Graduate Fellowship for the 2024–2025 academic year. Fellowship is awarded by a panel of SEAS faculty for research excellence ($12,000).
- Aug 2024 Service
Reviewer — IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Reviewed a research paper for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
- May 2024 Service
Reviewer — ICRA 2024
Reviewed two papers for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024.
- Apr 2024 Service
Program Committee — ASE ASYDE Workshop 2024
Served on the program committee for the ASYDE Workshop on Automated and verifiable Software sYstem DEvelopment, co-located with ASE 2024. Reviewed three papers.
- Mar 2024 Publication
Paper Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
PreFixer: Automated Generation of Transformations to Mitigate Sensor Changes in ADS published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Work addresses the problem of sensor hardware versioning breaking downstream perception models.
- Dec 2023 Workshop
SE4SafeML Workshop — Organizing Committee Lead @ FSE 2023
Organized and led the Workshop on Dependability and Trustworthiness of Safety-Critical Systems with Machine Learned Components, co-located with FSE 2023. The workshop was the highest-attended at FSE ‘23 with 44 attendees.
- Sep 2023 Service
Leadership Alliance Mentor (2023–2024)
Mentored six undergraduate students from underrepresented groups in research projects through the Leadership Alliance program.
- May 2023
BeamNG highlights my research using their simulator
The research division of BeamNG.tech, a high-fidelity beam-node simulator for driving physics and modeling, highlighted three of my papers: “Automated Generation of Transformations to Mitigate Sensor Hardware Migration in ADS”, “DeepManeuver: Adversarial Test Generation for Trajectory Manipulation of Autonomous Vehicles”,...
- May 2023 Award
UVA University-wide Graduate Teaching Award
Awarded the University of Virginia’s university-wide Graduate Teaching Award for excellence in teaching and novel contributions to the CS curriculum. First CS student to receive the award since 2008.
- Apr 2023 Service
CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women 2023
Selected to attend and speak at the Computing Research Association’s Grad Cohort for Women, presenting on mentoring work and upcoming research.