• Measured elastic, inelastic, and transfer cross sections simultaneously with an active target detector• Coded a Python analysis package leveraging waveform analysis, unsupervised data clustering, stiff numerical ODE solvers, large-scale data frames, and parallelization to analyze terabytes of active target detector data• Programmed a Monte Carlo simulation package in Python to generate millions of particle trajectories in an active target detector• Collaborated with various research groups on novel charge exchange, excitation function, and rare particle decay measurements, aiding in their designs and analyses• Orally and visually presented my research at multiple national and international conferences• Hosted a weekly journal club between graduate students from various research groups to discuss an assigned academic journal• Elected as Graduate Student Recruitment Officer, organizing and leading digital and in-person open houses for prospective graduate students• Mentored young graduate/undergraduate physics students through biweekly meetings• Created and taught curriculum for a virtual four-day middle school summer science camp

• Taught three sections of a weekly introductory physics laboratory course for non-physics majors, also grading their reports

• Designed a vacuum-sealing, resistor-capacitor printed circuit board with AutoDesk EAGLE to transmit analog signals from micropattern gas detectors to front-end electronics• Engineered vacuum chamber electrical feedthrough ports with Autodesk Inventor and collaborated with machinists to fabricate them via CNC machining• Modeled a stack of evenly-spaced rings with Autodesk Inventor and simulated its electric field using the finite-element mesh generator Gmsh along with the simulation programs Elmer and Garfield++

• Assigned as a research assistant for a fellow of the Institute• Participated in weekly seminars to develop research and communication skills• With one fellow I explored the viability of various dimensionless parameters as candidates for figures of merit to quantify the “quantumness” of a system• With the other fellow I attempted to clarify the role and meaning of probability in the second law through an examination of Boltzmann’s introduction and understanding of it

• Simulated the transmission of light in a laser calibration system for a time projection chamber using the ray-tracing software TracePro• Constructed a proof-of-concept laser calibration system