Now

Last updated: May 2026.

• Focused on finishing the PhD — recently wrapped my role as an AI Developer at Dais to give the dissertation my full attention.
• Wrapping up the dissertation — case studies on Anthropic misuse detection, OpenClaw agent security, and the StrongDM software factory.
• Developing a new Red Teaming AI Systems course at TU for Fall 2026, after delivering CYB-4203 Secure & Trustworthy AI this spring.
• Transitioned to Outreach Director of the TU AI/ML Club after two years as Graduate President; recently organized and led the inaugural Hurricane Hackathon.
• Building dallas-elleman.com (this site) and tooling around an “Ask Dallas” semantic-search backend.

Inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now movement.