Biography

I am currently a Ph.D. student at Cornell University studying Particle Physics for the CMS Experiment at CERN. My research focuses on high-performance and parallel computing applications for particle tracking, funded by Princeton's Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP). Prior to Cornell, I graduated with a B.S. in physics and a minor in statistics from UC Santa Barbara with Highest Honors. The majority of my time in physics research as an undergraduate was spent as a research assistant for Stanford's Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX) under Joe Incandela. Outside of physics, I spent a year as a Research Engineer for a defense company near Washington DC writing software for research projects funded primarily by DARPA.