Welcome! I am currently a research associate in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

My research is balanced between experimental and computational work for materials science. At the bench, I design and test polymeric composites functionalized with antimicrobials to reduce instances of secondary caries. Computationally, my work focuses on automating the extraction of legacy data from literature to generate feature-rich datasets, aiding materials discovery within the broader scientific community.

A significant barrier to a material's development has often been its reliance on a relatively trial and error process. Simply put, it has historically been expensive and slow, thus forming the rationale of my interest in exciting methods used in accelerating their design. My interest here further encompasses techniques such as fine and coarse-grained modeling, data-driven inference, and autonomous approaches.

I studied Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. My experience there was often at the molecular/cellular level, designing proteins and testing biomaterials for drug delivery.

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Broad topics of interest: material design and characterization // autonomous experimentation // informatics and simulation