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AI engineer and researcher building AI systems people can rely on.

  • Forward-deployed engineering
  • Trustworthy AI
  • PhD, Computer Science
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Senior AI Engineer at Universal Creative

I work in a forward-deployed role: I meet with business teams, scope what they need, and take the AI solution from first prototype to trusted production. I lead an AI engineering team across our AI platform, finance, and cost-estimating work. Before that, my PhD focused on designing neural networks for medical image segmentation that know when they might be wrong: uncertainty estimates and explainability that both improved the model's accuracy and told clinicians when to rely on its output. That same question, when an AI answer can be trusted, drives the evaluation work I do today.

Role
Senior AI Engineer, Universal Creative
Education
PhD & MS in Computer Science, UCF
Focus
LLM agents & evaluation, RAG, medical imaging
Based in
Orlando, FL
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Universal Creative

Enterprise AI systems

An in-house platform for AI agents and multi-agent workflows, LLM evaluation and hallucination detection pipelines, and human-in-the-loop tools that help business teams move from spreadsheets to AI workflows they can trust.

PhD research · UCF

Uncertainty-aware medical image segmentation

Novel 3D architectures and loss functions for tumor and organ-at-risk segmentation, with uncertainty estimates that tell clinicians when to rely on the model. Raised Swin UNETR Dice from 0.47 to 0.64.

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Happy to talk about trustworthy AI, LLM evaluation, or research collaborations.