Research

Posing with a scintillator I used for neutron diagnostics in "LaCave" at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Pasadena, CA

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow and Year-round Intern | 2022

John and Barbara Gee FellowInvestigated the efficacy of atmospheric retrieval strategies for the James Webb Space TelescopeSimulated observed spectra of exoplanets and evaluated accuracy of retrieval frameworks, finding encouraging evidence for JWST's ability to detect liquid water oceans on exoplanetsContinuing as a year-round intern, a paper discussing this work is in progress

California Institute of Technology; Pasadena, CA

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow | 2021

Janice D. Pata FellowWorked in the High Energy Astrophysics Group on "Blind X-ray Pulsation Searches in Millisecond Pulsars"Worked in Python and Command Line to produce a pipeline for blind X-ray pulsation searches in Hard and Soft X-ray ranges using NuSTAR and NICER observations.

California Institute of Technology; Pasadena, CA

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow | 2020

Samuel N. Vodopia and Carol J. Hasson FellowWorked in the High Energy Astrophysics Group on "X-ray Pulsation Searches with Improved NuSTAR Clock Corrections".Worked in Python and Command Line to utilize the newly improved timing precision of NuSTAR to analyze Transitional Millisecond Pulsars in the hard X-ray range.

Laboratory for Laser Energetics; Rochester, NY

High School Research Program Intern | 2018

Conducted research and wrote internally published report on "Spectral Moment Analysis of the Deuterium-Deuterium Neutron Energy Distribution from Inertial Confinement Fusion on OMEGA"

Developed a MATLAB program to forward-fit neutron spectra and derive bulk flow velocities and ion temperature

Discovered an inherent asymmetry in the laser-target system and identified a target-offset that could resolve the asymmetry, potentially increasing the efficiency of future Inertial Confinement Fusion campaigns.

All publicly available works related to this research can be found in the "Written Works" tab.