I am an astronomer splitting time between two positions, both focused on exoplanet and circumstellar disk science. As an assistant researcher in the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department and a member of the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) team, I discover and characterize exoplanets and the circumstellar disks of rock, ice, and gas that are linked to their formation. By directly imaging and then modeling this disk material I learn about the formation and evolution of planetary systems that can be like or unalike our Solar System. As an observer, I also use the Keck telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to study these types of systems.As a research assistant at the SETI Institute, I am leading the processing and analysis of exoplanet transit observations made by the Unistellar eVscope citizen science network. This is a global community of observers using consumer telescopes to detect known exoplanets and refine their ephemerides for more efficient future observation and characterization by large space-based and ground-based telescopes. Additionally, I am in charge of the Unistellar science data pipeline for transit, asteroid occultation, and direct asteroid observations. Separately, I am also testing and enhancing PSF-subtraction algorithms for exoplanet and circumstellar disk detection in high contrast imaging from the Gemini Planet Imager.My past research experience also includes assisting in the design of an infrared imager for an adaptive optics system on a 10-m class telescope.Specialties: Astronomy/Astrophysics, High-contrast Imaging, Time-series Analysis, Image Processing, Multidimensional Modeling, Data Reduction, Adaptive Optics