Recent Highlights

• 09/2025: Starting an internship with Los Alamos National Laboratory, where I will be working on the NASA project "Revolutionizing Neutron Star Parameter Inference through Machine Learning."

• 08/2025: Received the Preparing Future Faculty award from NMSU Graduate School.

• 07/2025: Presented our work about cold-start problem in educational AI systems at AIED 2025 in Palermo, Italy.

• 06/2025: Successfully passed Ph.D. Qualification Exam with a presentation on contrastive learning and autoregressive modeling in Knowledge Tracing!

• 05/2025: Presented at NMSU Graduate Research and Arts Symposium (GRAS) on attention vs memory in Knowledge Tracing.

• 04/2025: Paper accepted at AIED 2025 on the cold-start problem in educational AI systems!

• 03/2025: Poster accepted at LAK25 on memory vs attention in Knowledge Tracing architectures.

• 02/2025: Paper accepted at AAAI 2025 on LLM-guided tutoring for social skills training.

• 12/2024: Completed M.S. in Computer Science.

• 12/2024: Received Honors Cord from NMSU Graduate School for academic excellence.

• 11/2024: Runner-up at GDSC Programming Competition Fall 2024 at NMSU!