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🪖 Captain, U.S. Army
🏫 Instructor, EECS, US Military Academy at West Point
🔎 Researching Collective Intelligence, Democratic Deliberation, AI for Critical Thinking
🗓️ Fall 2025
🖧 CY350: Computer Networks CS380: Computer Systems and Organization
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🧠 Ideas
How can LLMs enable us to ingest massive streams of unstructured information, incorporate diverse perspectives and distill them into actionable insights that align with public opinion? Democratic Deliberation 🎓 MS Thesis ArgMap
How do we leverage AI to best develop critical thinking skills in the classroom? How do we maintain our cognitive abilities? 🌿 Lodestone is a great thought experiment in this space. AI for Critical Thinking
How can LLMs assess student homework and provide meaningful feedback? AI for Critical Thinking AutoGrader
What design patterns can enable us to collaborate with other humans and AI agents to collectively solve wicked problems? How do we leverage machines to act as complementary cognitive artifacts that augment our human capabilities? Collective Intelligence
📜 Publications
Moderating Democratic Discourse with LLMs, SBP-BRiMS 2024 Democratic Deliberation
Using LLMs to Structure and Visualize Policy Discourse, DemocrAI workshop at IJCAI 2024 🏆 Best Paper Award Democratic Deliberation
Advancing Policy Insights: Opinion Data Analysis and Discourse Structuring Using LLMs. Graduate Thesis and Dissertation 2023-2024. University of Central Florida. 🏆 UCF Founders’ Day 2025 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award Collective Intelligence Democratic Deliberation 🎓 MS Thesis
Generally Genius: A Generals.io Agent Development and Data Collection Framework. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 2023
🏗️ Projects
ArgMap Argument Mapping to Guide Policy Decisions 🎓 MS Thesis Python
AutoGrader Python library to help evaluate student submissions Python
Synthetic Data Generator scripts to generate synthetic datasets for educational purposes Python
⏳ USMA Class Timer generated primarily using ChatGPT HTML JavaScript
🤖 Generally Genius bot framework to develop automated agents for generals.io, a fast-paced real-time strategy game with imperfect information within a 2D grid world TypeScript Python
⭐ Awesome Stuff curated list of awesome resources, tools, and projects related to computing, technology and life in general
🏫 Past Courses
🗓️ Spring 2025
🗃️ CY305: Cyber Foundations