I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a Kay & Steve Robbins Faculty Teaching Fellow. I serve as a MATRIX AI Consortium Thrust co-Lead for Machine Learning & Deployment, and as the Faculty Advisor to the ACM-W and GDSC student organizations.  My research focuses on optimization of deep learning architectures and training paradigms to improve efficiency, accuracy, and interpretability, with applications spanning AI for science including materials characterization, nuclear security, and multimodal data fusion. Our research is supported by the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Department of Defense. Prior to joining UTSA, I worked for a decade in industry as an enterprise software engineer and machine learning researcher. I am a Senior Member of IEEE and the National Academy of Inventors, holding 22 U.S. patents. I completed my B.S. in Computer Science at Siena University and my M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

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