Now

Below is a little bit of what I’m working on and doing now, updated every once in a while.

Professionally

After spending several years modeling renewables, energy pricing, and energy efficiency programs, I’ve joined the Enterprise Analytics & AI team at the Tennessee Valley Authority. My team focuses implementation of and education around… well… analytics & AI for the enterprise. We take on cutting-edge proofs of concept and enable our citizen data scientists to do the same. Right now, we’re focusing heavily on generative AI, so I’ve been improving our enterprise CMS search using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and supporting our rollout of Microsoft Copilot. I also develop R Shiny apps that facilitate statistical testing of our groundwater and geochemical monitoring programs and support the near-term forecasting models within our AMI meter data sharing program.

Academically

This fall, I completed my 9th semester (of ten) in my Master’s of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. I officially passed Graduate Algorithms, which is infamous in the program. I’m taking Artificial Intelligence this Spring, and I’m looking forward to it as a sort of capstone. I’ve gotten a head start on some of the usually assigned readings, and I can see concepts returning from my Reinforcement Learning, Knowledge-Based AI, and even Graduate Algorithms.

Personally

A new year brings with it a new yearly theme. 2026 is the Year of Working the Count. Following 2025, the Year of Holding Things Loosely, I’m looking to work out some feelings of stagnation and restlessness in my personal life. I think more and more about “big swings”, hopefully coming in my late 20s: settling in one location, buying a house, meeting my future wife, etc. But these goals can’t be achieved overnight. This year will be about taking steps to enable big swings in the future. For example, rather than pushing myself to train for another half-marathon, which I’m not necessarily excited to do in the near term, how can I get in the best shape and be prepared for when the motivation does strike? If good pitches do come my way this year, well, I’ll be hitting them out of the park all the same.