I am an assistant professor at Virginia Tech, where I currently serve as associate dean and executive director for information technology in the University Libraries.

My research involves devising methods for computational analysis and use of the large digital collections held by libraries and archives. I am especially interested in electronic theses and dissertations. Because they are long and contain multiple chapters, they more resemble books than research articles. My aim is to use methods for information extraction, classification, and summarization to uncover the knowledge and data buried in this rich corpus of graduate research to facilitate its discovery and equitable use.

I received the B.A. in cognitive science from the University Of Virginia and the M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. Since then, I have been involved in projects and services related to scholarly communication, digital preservation, repositories and digital libraries. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, under the supervision of Professor Edward A. Fox, with a dissertation focused on the application of NLP and machine/deep learning to scholarly big data.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8307-8844