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Austin, Texas, United States

Computational research distinguishing Lyman-alpha and oxygen II emission lines in spectral data gathered by the HETDEX telescope using supervised and unsupervised machine learning with PythonDeveloped and implemented in-house models using Scikit-learn’s principal component analysis (PCA), t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), and kernel.

Austin, Texas, United States

Experimental research studying plasma turbulence--in particular, the micro tearing mode--at the edge of the Tokamak, a nuclear fusion device, through mathematical models.Implemented numerical tools, such as the finite difference method, secant method, and inverse power method

Austin, Texas, United States

Computational research distinguishing Lyman-alpha and oxygen II emission lines in spectral data gathered by the HETDEX telescope using supervised and unsupervised machine learning with PythonManipulated data using numpy and pandas, as well as scikit-learn’s principal component analysis (PCA), t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), and k-means.

Austin, Texas Area

Host help sessions in Astronomy lecture course AST 301, grade assignments, assist with tutorial sessions, proctor exams, and answer students’ questions on coursework

Austin, Texas Area

In-lab research studying targeted drug delivery to cancerous cells encapsulated in nanoparticles at Smyth LabsMethodically prepared, processed, centrifuged, and tested solutions with various combinations and concentrations of polymersAnalyzed polymeric solutions’ particle counts and voltage potentials using size-exclusion chromatography, based on.

Austin, Texas Area

Grade assignments in a Physics lab course PS 304 and answer students’ questions on coursework

Austin, Texas, United States

Tutor students one-on-one for Integral Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Matrix Theory, and Real Analysis

Austin, Texas Area

Computational research simulating motion of microparticles through membranes with Python at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and SciencesApplied kinematic and energy equations in three dimensions to accurately model the behavior of proteins at the mesoscopic levelUsed a milestoning algorithm to extract information from short-time dynamics.

Brookshire, Texas, United States

Test prep tutor for the SAT and ACT.Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy subject tutor for K-12 and undergraduate students.

Austin, Texas

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Activities and Societies: Society of Physics Students, Astronomy Students Association, Undergraduate Women in Physics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Astronomy