Work

A selection of projects, talks, and publications spanning NLP, machine learning, and applied data science in the public sector.

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Tool / NLP

RTI SmartReview

NLP system for federal public comment review. Identified 100% of relevant comments from 22,000+ submissions for CMS rulemaking.

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Open Source

2021
Rapid Offense Text Autocoder (ROTA) Open-Source Model ·Zenodo

Conferences & Presentations

2025
Advancing prevention in Georgia through two unique data-driven tools ·Society for Prevention Research, Seattle
2025
Advancing prevention and storytelling in Georgia through two unique, data-driven tools ·SAMHSA Prevention Day, National Harbor, MD (Poster)
2024
Research Applications Using LLMs ·NC A&T AI Faculty Enrichment Workshop
2023
Programmatic PDF extraction: An applied case study in federal government application portfolio analysis ·FedCASIC Workshops
2023
Revealing and transmitting prevention-related stories through the Georgia prevention data hub ·AEA Annual Meeting, Indianapolis
2023
Applying AI techniques for records abstraction in MEPS-MPC ·FedCASIC Workshops
2022
Intro to PDF Text & Table Extraction ·NormConf (Lightning Talk)
2022
Improving public comment review with machine learning and advanced analytics: RTI SmartReview ·GASP Conference
2022
Helping Federal Clients Move From Table-Based Reporting To Dynamic Dashboards: NCVS Case Study ·FedCASIC Workshops
2022
Bringing Efficiencies To Criminal Justice Manual Coding Through Machine Learning ·GASP Conference
2022
Bringing Efficiencies To Criminal Justice Manual Coding Through Machine Learning ·FedCASIC Workshops
2022
Applied Machine Learning using ROTA: Rapid Offense Text Autocoder ·Women in Statistics and Data Science (WSDS), St. Louis
2020
Perspectives on data for good at a non-profit research institute ·Women in Data Science (WiDS), Bank of America, Charlotte
2019
NCS-X NIBRS Dashboard Demonstration ·ASUCRP Conference, Hilton Head
2018
Charlottesville Open Data Challenge: First place storytelling submission ·Tom Tom Founders Festival – ML Conference, Charlottesville

Media & Communications

2025
RTI SmartReview: Using Data Science to Improve Federal Public Comment Review ·RTI Insights
2024
Six Innovative Generative AI Use Cases ·RTI Insights
2022
Webinar: Improving public comment review with automation, ML, and advanced analytics ·RTI Webinar
2021
Newly-released machine learning tool brings efficiencies to criminal justice research practices (ROTA) ·RTI Insights
2018
The Power of Open Data and Crowdsourcing Analytics ·Elder Research (Interview)
2017
Analytics Best Practices – Agile Data Science ·Elder Research