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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

- Developing machine learning and statistical techniques for estimating underwater acoustic transmission loss uncertainty- Collaborating with and mentoring current graduate students- Building an open-source software package for estimating ocean environmental uncertainty with publicly-available databases

- Investigated sound propagation through seagrass with an acoustic resonance chamber- Designed and performed both in situ and ex situ laboratory experiments to study acoustic properties of seagrass.- Measured and compared sound characteristics of coffee bean roasting with various bean types using acoustical and machine learning techniques.

Austin, Texas, United States

- Taught two sections of Engineering Physics II courses- Prepared four one-hour lectures weekly for classes of 15 students

Madison, Wisconsin

- Modifying an existing soft x-ray tomography emission model to be more easily integrated into a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis by decreasing computation time.- Translated code from IDL to Python

- Designed a multi-filter experiment to try and measure impurity radiation - Converted a numerical soft x-ray model from IDL to Python for 3X performance upgrades- Helped a post doc with data collection on the Madison Symmetric Torus- Assisted in the assembly of 4 probes of a soft x-ray tomography diagnostic- Used AutoCAD to dimension over 60 parts for fabrication

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (Acoustics)

Activities and Societies: Graduate Engineering Council, Acoustical Society of America, Student ChapterDissertation title: Acoustic.

M.S.E., Mechanical Engineering (Acoustics)

Thesis title: The Acoustics of Coffee Roasting

B.S., Physics, Applied Math

Activities and Societies: Physics ClubThesis title: Implementing Bayesian Statistics and a Full Systematic Uncertainty Propagation.

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