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Reno, Nevada, United States

Chemical fluid mixing and heating systems simulations. Data pipelines, backend programming, and analysis.

Developed a pipeline for running Monte Carlo simulations on HPC clusters to optimize particle detector models. Increased the fit speed by a factor of 15.Advanced it so any detector in the Nuclear Counting Facility can implement the program.Used Linux shell, bash scripts, Excel, and Python to build a backend and interact with the system.

I worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant in the course PHYS-281, Computational Physics in Python, for physics and astronomy majors. I held this position for four class sections over the course of three semesters, and was supervised by Prof. Donald Candela, Prof. Shubha Tewari, and Prof. Peter Schloerb. I assisted with programming classwork, graded assignments, and provided individualized feedback to students during class time and office hours.

Menon Research Group (experimental nonequilibrium physics) -- I created thin sheet material, using vinyl polysiloxane, and designed an experimental apparatus. I then videoed individual sheets rising in glycerol, with varying sheet dimensions, from the top and side views simultaneously. To efficiently manipulate the data, I collapsed the top view videos to 1D color intensity data, taking the derivative by convolution, and wrote Python code to track the contact line and leading edge positions as inflection points. I then computed the speed of contact line recession and presented the results.

University Of Massachusetts, Amherst

I worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant in the course PHYS-181, Mechanics, and was supervised by Prof. Jennifer Ross. I mentored nine freshman physics and astronomy students in solving Newtonian mechanics problems.

Lebanon, New Hampshire

I executed various print and product tests, under the guidance of the applications development engineering team and lab technicians. This included studies on the minimization of cross-talk and the impact of an asymmetrical velocity distribution on prints. In one study, I designed and tested variations of a passive baffle to reduce turbulence effects for high-standoff printing applications, through qualitative comparison of 300+ prints. I also processed files using ImageMagick in AutoHotKey.

Lebanon, New Hampshire

I scripted a printhead test submission system in Google Apps Script through Google Sheets, shadowed engineers, concisely documented standard jetting performance testing procedures, and executed my own study on the spread of ink droplets prior to UV curing.

Master'S Degree, Computational Science And Engineering, Gpa 3.9/4.0

Specialization: Numerical Computing. Focus: combining the knowledge, skills, and practices associated with the study of computer-based.

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics, Major Gpa 3.8/4.0

Activities and Societies: Minor in Mathematics

High School Diploma