Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

B.Sc. with First-Class Honours in Mathematics

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Experience

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Sandia National Laboratories, Computer Science Research Institute — May 2020 – Present

Lead research in scientific machine learning and uncertainty quantification for high-consequence engineering and national-security applications. Founding developer of PyApprox. Principal investigator on multiple funded projects supported by DARPA, DOE Office of Science (ASCR), and Sandia LDRD.

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Sandia National Laboratories, Computer Science Research Institute — Oct 2014 – May 2020

Developed foundational surrogate-modeling and sparse-approximation methods (polynomial chaos, adaptive sparse grids, compressed sensing) and data-consistent inversion, now widely used and cited in UQ research and practice.

Postdoctoral Appointee

Sandia National Laboratories — Jan 2012 – Oct 2014

Postdoctoral Researcher

Purdue University, then Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI; hosted by Duke University) — Feb – Dec 2011

Leadership & Service

Associate Editor, Journal of Machine Learning for Modeling and Computing (Begell House)

Organizing Committee, SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ26), 2026

Chair, DOE ASCR Basic Research Needs Workshop on Inverse Problems; lead author of the resulting report (2025)

Invited tutorials: IPAM Multi-Fidelity Methods for Fusion Energy (UCLA, 2026); AIAA Workshop on Multifidelity Methods for Design & UQ (2026); SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (2024)

Software

PyApprox

Open-source Python toolkit for surrogate modeling, Bayesian inference, optimal experimental design, and multi-fidelity UQ. Maintained to production standards: cross-platform CI, static typing, security scanning, automated OIDC release pipeline.

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Publications

See the full list on the Publications page.

Metrics

6,000+ Citations
32 h-index
52 i10-index