Independent studies and applied research I am running now — several with students.
These are works in progress. Where one turns into a paper or a dataset, I link it from the Publications page.
Independent study · Spring 2026 – present Developer–AI Augmentation in Software Development
How AI is shifting software development from writing code to specifying intent: human–AI collaboration models, their effect on developer workflows and cognition, and the trade-offs between efficiency gains and risks such as overreliance, reduced code comprehension, and security vulnerabilities in generated output.
Independent study · Spring 2026 Edge AI vs. Cloud AI: Performance, Latency, and Hybrid System Design
A comparative analysis of Edge AI and Cloud AI architectures — latency, scalability, bandwidth, and data privacy — anchored in a Remaining Useful Life prediction task on the NASA C-MAPSS dataset, working toward hybrid Edge–Cloud designs.
Independent study · Fall 2025 – present Data-Driven Soccer Analytics: Performance Determinants of Winning
Match-level analysis of Brockport women’s soccer to find what separates wins from non-wins — possession, territorial control, and attacking output — and the performance thresholds tied to a higher chance of winning.
Independent study · Fall 2023 – present Analyzing Engagement and Growth in YouTube’s Creator Economy
How digital creators build audiences and monetize social capital: analyzing YouTube video data, descriptions, comments, and community engagement to inform data-driven content strategy.