Research

I believe one of the greatest joys in life is to discover and build new things—contributing, in however small a way, to the ongoing conversation of science.

Great are the works of the Lord;
they are pondered by all who delight in them...
(Psalm 111:2, NIV)

Research Interests


Projects

Jun 2025 – present

Recommending Energy Retrofits at the Neighborhood Level

We use EnergyPlus™ simulations and neural networks to recommend energy efficiency retrofits across neighborhoods rather than just individual buildings.

Collaborators: Jorge Silveyra, Chetan Tiwari

energy ml recommender sustainability
Feb 2025 – present

Detecting French Idioms with NMT

Applying back-translation and neural methods to a new French idiom corpus to improve figurative language handling in multilingual MT.

nlp multilingual idioms translation