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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) — Computer Science

University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• Dissertation: “Smart Decision-Making via Edge Intelligence for Smart Cities”
• Advisor: Dr. Hana Khamfroush

Master of Science (M.S.) — Computer Science

University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky, United States

• En-Passant Masters degree awarded while on track to complete the Ph.D. degree program.

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Computer Science

Northern Kentucky University; Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States

• Minor: Mathematics
• Honors Distinctions
• Cum Laude

Postdoctoral Scholar

Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago

Graduate Assistant

Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky

• Research Assistant: 2019-2022
• Teaching Assistant: 2017-2019

Academic Tutor

Learning Assistance Programs; Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States

• Provided one-on-one and group instruction for the following courses:
  • Pre-Calculus
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Elementary Programming
  • Business Programming
  • Object-Oriented Programming I
  • Object-Oriented Programming II
  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Theory of Computation

• Issues in Diverse Education Rising Scholar

• Outstanding Student Paper for "Behavioral Information Diffusion for Opinion Maximization in Online Social Networks", awarded by the *University of Kentucky Department of Computer Science*
• University of Kentucky Graduate Student Congress Conference Travel Award ($500.00)
• NSF IEEE INFOCOM Student Travel Grant ($225.00)

• NSF IEEE SMARTCOMP Student Travel Grant

• Web and Internet Economics (WINE) Conference Student Travel Grant
• University of Kentucky Computer Science Departmental Travel Grant (2x)