Service
Research only works because people do the unglamorous work of keeping departments, labs, and communities running. I am in my first year, so my share of that is still small. What follows is what I actually contribute to, not a list of roles I hope to hold.
Group Work
The Genesis Mission
I work with Dr. Aniruddha Bora on his project under the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative combining AI, supercomputing, and quantum systems to accelerate scientific research. Texas State is part of the inaugural cohort, and Dr. Bora’s project, Drift-Aware Initialization of Coupled Earth System Models for Scalable Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction Using Agentic AI, runs under a sub-award from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
The work delivers long-range water availability forecasts for energy planning. Earth-system models drift: small errors in the initial state compound as the forecast runs forward, and by the subseasonal-to-seasonal range that drift dominates the prediction. The framework identifies how those initial errors grow and recommends corrections before forecasting begins, so that utilities and communities can plan hydropower, manage reservoirs, and prepare for drought against a forecast they can trust.
This is also where my own interest in long-horizon forward operators comes from. The drift problem is the same question my dissertation work asks, in a setting where the answer has consequences for people.
Outside the Lab
A doctorate is not the whole of a life. Two things that keep me sane:
Playing guitar.
Zoe, who is unimpressed by operator learning.