Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor of Data Science & Mathematics (Tenure-Track)
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), AZ
2022–Present
Program Coordinator, Data Science
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), AZ
2024–Present
Courtesy Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Clarkson University, NY
2023–Present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Clarkson University, NY (with adjunct appointments in Chemical Engineering and Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering)
2021–2022
Research Associate (Postdoc)
Clarkson Center for Complex Systems Science (C³S²), NY
2019–2021

Honors & Awards

Visiting Faculty Research Fellow, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) / Griffiss Institute
Competitively selected research fellowship. Project: Synchronization, Harmonizing Genes, and the Dynamical Systems Language Model.
2024
Editor’s Pick, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (AIP Publishing)
2023
Research featured by EurekAlert! (AAAS)
2022
Visiting Faculty Research Fellow, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) / Griffiss Institute
Competitively selected research fellowship. Project: Spectral Hierarchy Measure using Geometric Partition Entropy.
2022
Editor’s Pick, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (AIP Publishing)
2020

Research Funding

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA)
Principal Investigator. In support of Geometric Information Theory and Causation Inference.
2023–2025
National Science Foundation (NSF), EAGER
Co-Principal Investigator. North American Monsoon Prediction Using Causality-Informed Machine Learning. $130,000.
2023–2024
Innovative Teaching Grant (ITG), Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, ERAU
Principal Investigator. Enhancing Mathematical Understanding Through Data-Centered Exploration. $2,000.
2026
FIRST: Faculty Innovative Research in Science and Technology Program, ERAU
Principal Investigator. Community Detection and Clustering Algorithm using Boltzmann-Shannon Interaction Entropy. $26,000.
2024–2025
Innovative Teaching Grant (ITG), Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, ERAU
Principal Investigator. Data-Driven Approach in Teaching Calculus. $2,000.
2024

Industry & Applied Experience

Advisory Member

Root Dynamix, LLC (current)

Advisory member of a complex-systems solutions company founded by Dr. C. Tyler Diggans, my long-standing research collaborator and co-author. Root Dynamix builds tools that take ideas from complex-systems science into deployable technology, organized around four capabilities:

  • Synchronized: synchronization across distributed nodes through peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, keeping independent agents coordinated without a central clock or controller.
  • Symbolized: information-dense symbolization of continuous, dynamic data, compressing rich signals into compact symbolic representations that preserve their essential information content.
  • Supplied: minimum-cost-flow and fiber-bundle modeling of software-defined-network (SDN) systems, optimizing how resources and traffic move through a network.
  • Secured: chaos-based end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for secure communications, using the unpredictability of chaotic dynamics to protect data in transit.

As advisor, I contribute on the mathematics of information, causality, and complex networks that underpins these capabilities.

Co-Founder & R&D Engineer

GAAS (Genetic Algorithms Application Space), Jordan (2010–2015)

Built cost-effective hardware and optimization software for Building Management Systems, HVAC control, and home automation. Engineered global-optimization algorithms (genetic algorithms and metaheuristics) for production planning, power consumption, transportation, project management, and scheduling, including a novel genetic algorithm for chemical-industry production scheduling that improved efficiency and reduced costs.