I study how sustained AI use reshapes professional judgment. Specifically, how it alters the attentional, epistemic, affective, interpretive, and identity orientations that govern autonomous thinking. I work with Dr. Kaveh Abhari in the Digital Innovation Lab (DiLab) at San Diego State University. Our papers have been accepted at HCII, ECIS, AMCIS 2026, and empirical manuscripts accepted at ICIS 2026 and HICSS 2027. Another manuscript is under review at Information Technology & People

I've always learned by doing. I taught myself how to play multiple instruments, photography, chess, sleight of hand card magic (kind of nerdy, I know)......the list goes on. Whatever caught my curiosity, I found a way to just figure it out. That same drive is what drew me to research. I have questions about how AI is changing the way people think and make decisions, and I want to find rigorous answers to them. I also care about education. I've held multiple TA positions at SDSU (as well as helped design experiential learning curriculum), and the opportunity to teach and mentor as a career is a significant part of why I'm pursuing academia.

Before committing to research full-time, I worked as a carpenter, in marketing, an operations manager in SaaS start-ups, and a technology assurance intern at KPMG (among other positions, such as a bartender....I like to keep busy). I'm now a Technology Assurance Associate at KPMG. That range of experience reinforced something that has always stood out to me: many questions worth asking can't be fully answered through a single lens. It's why my work sits at the intersection of information systems, organizational design, and cognitive psychology.

I completed my B.S. in Information Systems at San Diego State University in May 2026, Summa Cum Laude.