Grants

  • IMLS National Leadership Grants (LG-254883-OLS-23) Curating Very Large Biomedical Image Datasets For Librarian-In-The-Loop Deep Learning πŸ”— (2023-2025)
  • Leveraging Large Language Models to Understand the Financial Behavior of Women and Minority Groups. (2023-2024)
  • Behind Density Lines: Machine Learning and Citizen Scientists in Quantifying Scanning Electron Microscopy Images πŸ”— (2023)
  • Data-centric MLOps for Image Segmentation in Cell Organelles (2022-2023)
  • Data-Centric Approach to Digital Twins of the Built Environment (2022-2023)
  • Amazon AWS Cloud Credits for Research Grants (2017–2018)
  • Virginia Tech Libraries Beyond Boundaries Innovation Fund (2016-2018)
  • National Distinction and Exceptional Performance, Virginia Tech (2016-2017)
  • Amazon AWS in Education Research Grants (2010–2011)

University Libraries Projects

  • Council on Library & Information Resources: Entomo-3D: Digitizing the Virginia Tech Insect Collection πŸ”— (2020-2023)
  • Virginia Tech Digital Libraries Platform πŸ”— (2018-Present)
    • International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) 🌐
    • Southwest Virginia Digital Archive (SWVA) 🌐
    • Hokies@Home 🌐

  • Virginia Tech Libraries - CollabVT and VIVOHarvester (2018-2019)
  • Virginia Tech Libraries - GeoData (2016-2018)
  • Virginia Tech Libraries - VTechData (2015-2018)
  • ETDplus - Supporting the evolution of ETD research products πŸ”— (2014-2017)
  • Fedora open source repository πŸ”—(2014-Present)
  • FishTraits Database (2014)

Research Projects

  • Cloud-native Data Analytics application for ETDs (2018)
  • Ensemble: Enriching Communities and Collections to Support Education in Computing πŸ”— (2008-2014)
  • A Digital Library for Recovery, Research, and Learning from April 16, 2007 πŸ”— (2008-2009)

Software and Applications

  • Analyzing WARC on serverless computing: a serverless data analytics application that processes the Common Crawl files stored in the AWS S3 πŸ”“ (2021)
  • Thumbnail creator: This application generates thumbnails for uploaded images, PDFs, and videos in an S3 bucket πŸ”“ (2021)
  • Amplify Appsync GraphQL examples πŸ”“ (2021)
  • AWS Amplify Previews Actions: A GitHub action enables the ability to deploy AWS Amplify Pull-Request Previews for the public GitHub repository πŸ”“ (2020-2021)
  • DLPservices: An AWS SAM template that deploys an ID Minting service and a Resolution service πŸ”“ (2020-2021)
  • VTDLP ID Minting Service: This service assigns a new NOID (Nice Opaque Identifier) to a record and updates the record’s information πŸ”“ (2020-2021)
  • VTDLP Resolution Service: This service resolves VTDLP NOID URLs to their permanent links πŸ”“ (2020-2021)
  • DDBtoDDB: A Lambda function that transfers data between DynamoDB tables, ensuring accurate restoration πŸ”“ (2020-2021)
  • Custom Lambda layers for VTDLP services: A library layer of Python libraries for AWS Lambda functions πŸ”“ (2020-2021)
  • Preservation Fixity Service: A serverless fixity service for digital preservation compliance πŸ”“ (2020)
  • FixityEventRule: A CloudWatch schedule service that invokes a Lambda function to query Athena and execute AWS Step functions πŸ”“ (2020)
  • dlp-access-lambdas: AWS Lambda functions that update dlp-access DynamoDB tables to have the necessary data for the collection folder tree πŸ”“ (2020)
  • DLP Access Website: A Multi-Tenancy Serverless web application πŸ”“ (2019-Present)
  • S3toDDB: A microservice for ingesting University Libraries’ digital assets’ metadata πŸ”“ (2019-Present)
  • AWS Batch IIIF Generator: An automated pipeline generating IIIF tiles and manifests, using AWS S3 as an IIIF image server πŸ”“ (2019-2020)
  • IIIF_S3 docker: A Docker container image containing executable IIIF tiling scripts πŸ”“ (2019-2020)
  • NOID-mint Python Package: A Python library for NOID generation πŸ”“ (2019-2020)
  • DSpace AIP archiver: A program uses OAI-PMH to fetch recent DSpace items, creates APTrust Bagit files, and uploads to S3 πŸ”“ (2019-2020)
  • VIVOHarvester: A modern, full or incremental harvester to collect data from Symplectic Elements for import into VIVO πŸ”“ (2019)
  • fcrepo-kubernetes: Deploy Fedora version 4 in Kubernetes πŸ”“ (2019)
  • Virginia Tech Theme for CollabVT: A VIVO scholarship platform πŸ”“ (2018-2019)
  • A cloud-native data analysis application for ETDs: An AWS microservice architecture application to analyze VTechwork ETDs πŸ”“ (2018)
  • A Library to Manage Web Archive Files in Cloud Storage πŸ”“ (2018)
  • Fedora 4/5 Docker image: Container image for Fedora version 4 and version 5 πŸ”“ (2016-2019)
  • GeoData: A Blacklight geospatial data application πŸ”“ (2016-2018)
  • Fedora 4 Ansible: Ansible script for Fedora version 4 πŸ”“ (2016-2018)
  • VTechData: A Samvera Hydra/Rails data repository application πŸ”“ (2015-2018)
  • Fedora: A robust, modular, open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content πŸ”“ (2014-2019)
  • ETDPlus: Curating ETD research data and digital objects πŸ”“ (2014-2017)