I am an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) Department at Florida A&M University and Florida State University, College of Engineering. My research interests lie in the general area of applied industrial statistics and data analytics with special focus in improving quality and reliability in modern manufacturing and design processes and assessing risk, vulnerability and resilience of communities and infrastructure against adverse events including natural disasters.

 My research in modeling and variability reduction of manufacturing processes, loss and impact assessment of natural disasters, spatiotemporal surveillance of infectious diseases, understanding social vulnerability during hurricane-pandemics and modeling and mitigation of roadway crash risk has been funded by National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Florida Department of Transportation. I received the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) award in 2019, 2020 and 2021, working on robust state estimation methods for navigation problems. My research is published in journals including Technometrics, IIE Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Quality Engineering and Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 

I served a Senator at the FSU Faculty Senate (2016-2022), as the IME Director of Graduate Studies (2012-2016) and is actively serving as member or chair at various Department, College and University level committees. I received the Outstanding Faculty Service Award by FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in 2013 and I am nominated for university teaching award by FSU in 2013 and 2020. I am an Editorial Review Board (ERB) member in Quality Engineering and a past member of the ERB of Journal of Quality Technology.