Current Research
Relativistic Heavy Ion Group, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
I recently joined the MIT Heavy Ion Group, and have focused on the analysis of a new particle tracking technology to be implemented at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Lab, and hopefully for detector experiements beyond that. I spent a month at CERN for the first beam test with this sensor and performed the initial analysis.
Undergraduate Research
Heavy Ion Group, University of Colorado Boulder
I worked with the Heavy Ion Physics group at the University of Colorado Boulder on experimental research. My primary project investigated the use of machine learning for the reconstruction of jet momentum in heavy ion collisions, where I reproduced the results from arxiv.org/abs/1810.06324 by R. Haake and C. Loizides. I developed custom C++ scripts for ROOT, PYTHIA, and FastJet for toy-model simulations of heavy ion collisions. Data from simulated events was processed by multiple machine learning models using the Scikit-Learn package. I presented a poster at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics conference in October 2022, and wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on this project.
I also assisted the heavy ion group at Lehigh University with the construction of the Event Plane Detector (sEPD) for the sPHENIX detector (pictured) at Brookhaven National Lab, and supported the testing and evaluation of detector components in Boulder.
Notable Projects:
Investigation of machine learning for use in heavy ion jet momentum reconstruction
Support with sPHENIX Event Plane Detector (sEPD) construction and quality testing
Sun Group, JILA
I assisted the Sun Group with photonics and quantum information science projects at JILA, where I developed custom software for equipment automation and data collection including a laser scanning microscope and controller application in PyQt. These applications are used to map samples of quantum emitters and identify emitter resonance frequencies. In addition, I assembled and aligned a confocal microscope for use with a 3-axis sample stage, which I used to perform an initial characterization of a molecular quantum emitter as a potential solid-state qubit platform.
Notable Projects:
Characterization of a radical molecule as a qubit candidate
Development of a sample scanning application to automate a confocal microscope and spectrometer