Grants

• _{IMLS National Leadership Grants (LG-254883-OLS-23) Curating Very Large Biomedical Image Datasets For Librarian-In-The-Loop Deep Learning 🔗 (2023-2025)}
• _{Leveraging Large Language Models to Understand the Financial Behavior of Women and Minority Groups. Virginia Tech Libraries Collaborative Research Grant (2023-2024)}
• _{Behind Density Lines: Machine Learning and Citizen Scientists in Quantifying Scanning Electron Microscopy Images 🔗. Virginia Tech Libraries Collaborative Research Grant (2023)}
• _{Data-centric MLOps for Image Segmentation in Cell Organelles 🔗. Virginia Tech Libraries Collaborative Research Grant (2022-2023)}
• _{Data-Centric Approach to Digital Twins of the Built Environment. Virginia Tech Libraries Collaborative Research Grant (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 🔗 (2020-2023)}
• _{Virginia Tech Digital Libraries Platform 🔗 (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 🔗 (2014-2017)}
• _{Fedora open source repository 🔗 (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 🔗 (2008-2014)}
• _{A Digital Library for Recovery, Research, and Learning from April 16, 2007 🔗 (2008-2009)}

Software and Applications

• _{BioImage 3DUnet Model Pipeline: A data curation pipeline designed for processing very large biomedical images 🔓 (2023-Present)}
• _{Fantastic Futures 2023 Workshop: Introducing AI for LAMs: A Beginner Tutorial for Practical Generative AI Use Cases 🔓 (2023)}
• _{DCMI 2023 Tutorial 1: LLMs for Semantic Web Query 🔓 (2023)}
• _{Intro to AI: Student Project Showcase 🔓 (2023-Present)}
• _{On-Demand Cell Organelle Segmentation System 🔓 (2022)}
• _{Introduction to Serverless Examples 🔓 (2022-Present)}
• _{Analyzing WARC on serverless computing: a serverless data analytics application that processes the Common Crawl files stored in the AWS S3 🔓 (2021)}
• _{Thumbnail creator: This application generates thumbnails for uploaded images, PDFs, and videos in an S3 bucket 🔓 (2021)}
• _{Amplify Appsync GraphQL examples 🔓 (2021)}
• _{AWS Amplify Previews Actions: A GitHub action enables the ability to deploy AWS Amplify Pull-Request Previews for the public GitHub repository 🔓 (2020-2021)}
• _{DLPservices: An AWS SAM template that deploys an ID Minting service and a Resolution service 🔓 (2020-2021)}
• _{VTDLP ID Minting Service: This service assigns a new NOID (Nice Opaque Identifier) to a record and updates the record's information 🔓 (2020-2021)}
• _{VTDLP Resolution Service: This service resolves VTDLP NOID URLs to their permanent links 🔓 (2020-2021)}
• _{DDBtoDDB: A Lambda function that transfers data between DynamoDB tables, ensuring accurate restoration 🔓 (2020-2021)}
• _{Custom Lambda layers for VTDLP services: A library layer of Python libraries for AWS Lambda functions 🔓 (2020-2021)}
• _{Preservation Fixity Service: A serverless fixity service for digital preservation compliance 🔓 (2020)}
• _{FixityEventRule: A CloudWatch schedule service that invokes a Lambda function to query Athena and execute AWS Step functions 🔓 (2020)}
• _{dlp-access-lambdas: AWS Lambda functions that update dlp-access DynamoDB tables to have the necessary data for the collection folder tree 🔓 (2020)}
• _{DLP Access Website: A Multi-Tenancy Serverless web application 🔓 (2019-Present)}
• _{S3toDDB: A microservice for ingesting University Libraries' digital assets’ metadata 🔓 (2019-Present)}
• _{AWS Batch IIIF Generator: An automated pipeline generating IIIF tiles and manifests, using AWS S3 as an IIIF image server 🔓 (2019-2020)}
• _{IIIF_S3 docker: A Docker container image containing executable IIIF tiling scripts 🔓 (2019-2020)}
• _{NOID-mint Python Package: A Python library for NOID generation 🔓 (2019-2020)}
• _{DSpace AIP archiver: A program uses OAI-PMH to fetch recent DSpace items, creates APTrust Bagit files, and uploads to S3 🔓 (2019-2020)}
• _{VIVOHarvester: A modern, full or incremental harvester to collect data from Symplectic Elements for import into VIVO 🔓 (2019)}
• _{fcrepo-kubernetes: Deploy Fedora version 4 in Kubernetes 🔓 (2019)}
• _{Virginia Tech Theme for CollabVT: A VIVO scholarship platform 🔓 (2018-2019)}
• _{A cloud-native data analysis application for ETDs: An AWS microservice architecture application to analyze VTechwork ETDs 🔓 (2018)}
• _{A Library to Manage Web Archive Files in Cloud Storage 🔓 (2018)}
• _{Fedora 4/5 Docker image: Container image for Fedora version 4 and version 5 🔓 (2016-2019)}
• _{GeoData: A Blacklight geospatial data application 🔓 (2016-2018)}
• _{Fedora 4 Ansible: Ansible script for Fedora version 4 🔓 (2016-2018)}
• _{VTechData: A Samvera Hydra/Rails data repository application 🔓 (2015-2018)}
• _{Fedora: A robust, modular, open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content 🔓 (2014-2019)}
• _{ETDPlus: Curating ETD research data and digital objects 🔓 (2014-2017)}