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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Boston Area

• Developed HopScotch, a content-based scotch whisky recommender based on product similarity learned from tasting notes in combination with regional information• Carried out natural language processing to individually vectorize three tasting note text features using term frequency-inverse document frequency embedding with scikit-learn• Collected and cleaned data scraped with Beautiful Soup 4 to compile a database of over 1000 scotches• Deployed Flask-based app to hop-scotch.tech using AWS and NGINX

Greater Boston Area

• Developed computational and theoretical models of complex crystal systems, calculating lattice dynamics of phonon dispersions in Mathematica to contextualize and interpret experimental data to determine the interaction of electronic and vibrational modes at the surfaces of topological materials, informing potential applications in spintronics and quantum computing• Created a streamlined Mathematica pipeline for faster and more reproducible analysis of helium scattering experiment data, eliminating the need for multiple proprietary programs• Operated and maintained ultra-high vacuum technology and designed mechanical and electronic systems, improving precision and reducing downtime between experiments• Designed instructional material and led eleven semesters of lab and discussion sections teaching students from various disciplines in introductory and advanced physics courses, granted Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award

• Carried out calculations in C and developed ab initio theory demonstrating novel optical systems that exhibit asymmetric light propagation for potential applications in photonic integrated circuitry• Identified effects of the interplay of disorder and active elements on the localization of light in waveguides

• Designed and constructed specialized electronic circuit for measuring hysteresis in polarization of ferroelectric materials for potential use in hydrogen fuel cell technology• Measured resistance of ceramic materials in dry air and wet hydrogen environments, and identified non-trivial time-dependent behavior informing future technological applications• Composed detailed report communicating results of study to the head of R&D department

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics

Master Of Arts - Ma, Physics

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Physics

Activities and Societies: Honors Thesis: Asymmetric Light Propagation in Active Photonic Structures