I am a doctoral student and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of South Carolina, specializing in hydraulics and water resources engineering.
My research focuses on flooding, dam and levee stability, probabilistic risk assessment, hydraulic modeling, and systems thinking. I am passionate about understanding and mitigating the impacts of extreme flooding events on critical infrastructure through advanced engineering methods that integrate uncertainty and risk.
I am motivated to develop new methodologies that improve infrastructure resilience and reliability. My work emphasizes the integration of uncertainties into numerical models, particularly through applying fragility curves to better characterize system vulnerabilities and failure probabilities.
I am currently involved in two National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded projects. I particularly enjoy working within interdisciplinary teams to create frameworks that are scalable and adaptable across broader environmental and societal challenges. While much of my work focuses on developing probabilistic risk assessment frameworks for dam and levee breaching, I also contribute to research on systems thinking for floodborne water contamination, statistical modeling for engineered levee breaches in flood mitigation, data-driven geospatial risk analyses at multiple spatial resolutions, and probabilistic geotechnical analysis.
Outside of research, I am deeply connected to the outdoors. I have been actively involved in rock climbing, mountaineering, trail running, and skiing for the past ten years. Earlier in life, I played basketball competitively throughout my childhood. I am passionate about cooking, independent cinema, and soul music. I like approaching everything I do with energy, creativity, and commitment.