I am a postdoctoral scholar in the Integrated Systems Engineering department at The Ohio State University. My work focuses on developing computational modeling and simulation tools to evaluate distributed work systems, especially those operating in complex, safety-critical environments. I’m interested in understanding how new technologies and automation affect system-wide performance under both ideal and degraded conditions.

My research spans domains such as low-altitude air mobility, spaceflight operations, large-scale software systems, and disaster response. At its core, my work enables designers, engineers, and decision-makers to anticipate how new capabilities interact with human operators, automation, and the broader system. This approach reveals trade-offs, coordination needs, and potential failure modes before systems are fully built or deployed.

For industry, this means being able to evaluate the downstream effects of a change. Whether you’re planning to overhaul incident response protocols, migrate workflows to a new platform like Salesforce, or place a multi-million dollar aircraft order, my approach helps organizations proactively identify performance gaps, coordination breakdowns, or unintended consequences introduced by new procedures or technologies. The goal is to provide actionable insight before high-stakes decisions are made, saving time, reducing risk, and ensuring a smoother transition to future-ready operations.

By modeling work and how it interacts with the work environment, I help provide a different perspective that will bridge the gap between system design and real-world operation. My goal is to provide tools that support informed decision-making in early-stage development, ensuring that future autonomous and semi-autonomous systems are not only innovative but also resilient, scalable, and human-aware.

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• July 2025: Currently developing a conceptual paper on the role of modeling and simulation in cognitive systems engineering, with a focus on uncovering emergent properties in safety-critical systems and advancing human-AI teaming (I prefer human-automation teaming) for next-generation work architectures; open to new research collaborations.

• June 2025: Completed a two-year NASA SBIR effort with Mosaic ATM. This work involved modeling multiple contingency scenarios using Work Models that Compute to analyze system and agent performance metrics while varying system architectures, pilot communication delays, aircraft separation buffers, and more.

• May 2025: Presented a paper titled “Two Tools for Analyzing Coordination Problems to Design for Distributed Work: A Case Study in Urban Air Mobility” with Abby Post at the International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/1188

• March 2025: Published a new paper titled “Computational Simulation of Distributed Work as a Discovery Tool for Envisioning Future Operations” in the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. https://doi.org/10.1177/15553434251327698

• February 2025: Dissertation published and available at: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1732442311106273

• January 2025: Began a new role as a postdoctoral scholar in the Cognitive Systems Engineering Lab.

• December 2024: Attended The Ohio State University’s autumn commencement to receive my doctoral diploma.

• November 2024: Successfully defended my dissertation titled “Computational Simulation of Work as a Discovery Tool for Envisioning Future Distributed Work Systems.”