I am an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, with an affiliation at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management.

My research examines how armed actors use coercion to shape conflict outcomes, with a focus on airpower, armed drones, rebel military capacity, one-sided violence, and population displacement. I study questions spanning the initiation and termination of fighting, how combatants shift the bargaining range in their favor, and the consequences of organized violence for civilians. Several of my projects integrate large language models into data collection, using structured API workflows to code variables from source text. I also teach graduate courses in quantitative methods, where students learn to use LLMs as tools for programming and data collection alongside traditional statistical training.

My work has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Security Studies, Tearline, and other peer-reviewed outlets. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative, and the Department of State Conflict Observatory. I have consulted for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.