Teaching & Pedagogy
Graduate-level course design and ethics framework development at the intersection of AI systems and human-centered engineering.
Course Spotlight
CSC 894: Healthcare AI Capstone
A graduate-level Computer Science capstone built around HealthRiskAI — a fictional application that processes healthcare claims data through a GCP pipeline. Students move through the full production arc — data ingestion, model training, deployment, and monitoring — with HIPAA compliance, equity, and clinical stewardship considerations embedded directly in the design rubric.
- End-to-end GCP deployment: Cloud Run, BigQuery, Vertex AI, and IAM configuration
- Clinical Stewardship Rubric with mandatory bias audit milestone at midterm
- A fictional HealthRiskAI application processing healthcare claims data through a GCP pipeline; HIPAA compliance and data governance built into every sprint
- Final deliverable: a deployed AI system with a live monitoring dashboard and model card
Ethics Framework
Clinical Stewardship & Design Equity Rubric
Developed as part of the CSC 894 capstone, this rubric operationalizes XAI ethics-by-design. It provides structured evaluation criteria for fairness audits, model explainability, and real-time pipeline oversight — translating abstract AI ethics principles into measurable engineering deliverables.
- Explainability: SHAP-based feature attribution required at inference time for every model submission
- Fairness audit: Demographic parity and equalized odds checks must pass before deployment milestone
- Stewardship: Real-time monitoring hooks for distribution shift detection wired into the production pipeline
- Transparency: Model card and data sheet required for every final submission
Engineering Leadership & Innovation Management
Currently pursuing this Graduate Certificate alongside the Doctor of Engineering program at Penn State. Focuses on translating advanced engineering execution into strategic organizational leadership — directly informing the design of the Clinical Stewardship Rubric and CSC 894 curriculum.