Now

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

Professionally

After spending the last five years working with renewables, pricing, and energy efficiency data, I’ve been embracing a new role at the Tennessee Valley Authority. My new team focuses on analytics and AI strategy for the enterprise and takes on cutting-edge proofs of concept. A large focus for us now is generative AI (including constraints and governance), so I’ve been working on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improvements to our enterprise CMS search.

Academically

This semester - my seventh semester of ten in my Master’s of Computer Science at Georgia Tech - I’m taking a course in Computer Vision. So far, it has been a bit of a diversion from the core machine learning techniques that I’ve focused on in previous courses. We’ve been learning classic computer vision concepts like camera calibration, Hough transforms, and epipolar geometry. I expect to get back to some neural network-based approaches in the second half of the semester.

Personally

I’ve been trying to spend more of my free time reading this year. I’ve had an aversion to it in the past (especially given how much reading is involved in grad school), but I was pleasantly surprised by how relaxing it has been. This year so far, I’ve read ‘Fat, Crazy, & Tired’ by one of my favorite podcasters, Van Lathan Jr., and started reading ‘A Game of Thrones,’ the first book in George R. R. Martin’s Ice and Fire Saga. The point being - you’ll hopefully see some books represented in my ‘Year of Reading’ for 2025.

I’ve also been working on my 2025 yearly theme: Year of Holding Things Loosely. Without getting too deep into it all, return-to-office mandates for federal employees have required me to embrace that mindset. As I target some athletic goals this year, I’m also trying to hold my training schedule loosely: prioritizing other types of training besides just running.

Oh, and check out my Letterboxd if you want to see what movies I’ve watched recently!