About

I’m Dallas, a cyber PhD student at the University of Tulsa working on AI Security & Alignment. My dissertation builds a trajectory-level framework for detecting behavioral misalignment in AI agents — the idea being that what an agent does over time tells you more about its goals than what it says.

Right now I’m splitting time between four things:

• Dissertation. ATLAS — Agentic Trajectory Learning for Alignment and Security: a 6A trace schema over OpenTelemetry and trajectory-trained detection heads that spot covert objectives before they land.
• Teaching. Delivered CYB-4203/6203 Secure & Trustworthy AI at TU in spring 2026; now leading LLM, repo, and infrastructure for TU’s Autonomous Systems Workforce Program, co-authoring a high-school AI course piloting this fall.
• Building. Hurricane Heartbeat, a live campus directory map, launched in beta at TU in August 2026.
• Community. Co-founded the TU AI/ML Club and serve as its Outreach Director, after two years as Graduate President.

Before this I was an engineering physicist, then a UAV/robotics product engineer. The thread connecting it all is: build the thing, trace what it does, decide if you trust it.