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Burbank, California

I am currently working at Walt Disney Animation Studios as a software engineer in production technology developing new tools, workflows, and capabilities motivated by the film production needs of the studio.

Davis, California

Since obtaining my Ph.D, I continued working with the VIDI group as a postdoctoral scholar furthering my own research and overseeing other projects and graduate students.

Davis, California

While working towards my PhD, I joined the VIDI group and conducted research in scientific visualization, data analysis, and high performance computing.

Gaithersburg, Maryland

I spent two summers (2014 and 2016) working at NIST as a graduate researcher developing visualization tools for use on both desktop PCs and in an immersive virtual reality environment. My work focused on helping researchers understand the chemical processes that occur in cement hydration.

Livermore, California

Just prior to starting graduate school, I spent one summer at Sandia National Laboratory as a guest researcher. I worked on data management and analysis problems related to understanding the interplay between field and particle data from large-scale combustion simulations.

Pasadena, California

For two quarters (Spring 2011 and 2012), I worked as a teaching assistant for a laboratory class in atomic and nuclear physics. I graded assignments, led instructional sessions, and helped oversee students and lab equipment during class time. Course material included studies of the Balmer series of hydrogen and deuterium, the decay of radioactive nuclei, absorption of X-rays and gamma rays, etc.

Pasadena, California

I spent my final year at Caltech working as a part of the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA) investigating how virtual worlds can be used to study and collaborate on data in the field of astrophysics. I was in charge of setting up and managing a server hosting a virtual world visited by international researchers.

Pasadena, California

I spent a summer working as a part of the Institute for Quantum Information (IQI) studying error correction in quantum computing. I focused on Bacon-Shor codes and their applicability to fault-tolerant quantum memory by simulating their behavior under different error rates and code block sizes.

Pasadena, California

I worked as a part of the Bellan Plasma Group for one summer studying the magnetohydrodynamics of plasmas. My research involved measuring the momenta of spheromaks and included the design and construction of a measurement apparatus that could interact with plasmas in a high-vacuum environment.

Princeton, New Jersey

I spent several summers working at the PRISM Imaging and Analysis Center (IAC) studying electromagnetic lensing in focused ion beam microscopes. I focused on designing and simulating methods of correcting spherical and chromatic aberrations in such devices. I also generated 3D animations of various scientific processes including medical stent placement, nacre growth, and the piezoelectric effect.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics