Research interests
My work has focused on experimental cosmology, specifically cryogenic radio instrumentation observing at 100s of GHz. These instruments cover a wide range of science topics from Line Intensity Mapping of high redshift carbon, to the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect in individual galaxy clusters.
Tomographic Ionized-carbon mapping experiment (TIME)
TIME is an imaging spectrometer which will perform Line Intensity Mapping of [CII] and CO during the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Noon respectively.​
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I designed and implemented a graphical user interface that allows control of our data acquisition and housekeeping hardware, as well as command of the telescope. This interface also showed a live viewer of timestreams from the detector and saved all relevant data to a custom-made file in the NetCDF4 format.​
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I was also the lead on the design, fabrication and testing of a K-Mirror image field rotator built in collaboration with a Senior Design Student Engineering team at RIT.
Fred young Sub-millimeter Telescope (FYST)
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The Chilean Atacama site, with (left to right) the current POLARBEAR/Simons Array, ACT, and CLASS experiments. Image Credit: Debra Kellner
Data Pipeline
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Undergraduate Research
Investigation of H2O Absorption Features in M Type Stars
Fall 2016
Collecting low resolution stellar spectra of M type stars and classifying the abundance of the molecular absorption from water. Observing other spectral types of stars to determine H2O cutoff. Compare accepted models for stellar atmospheres with observed molecular disassociation.
Cluster Analysis: A New Tool for Determining Sediment Provenance
Fall/Spring 2015
Work as undergrad at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Professors Roberge and Watson. Learning Matlab language. Creating program to determine the sediment provenance of quartz using only the elemental abundances in the sample. Background research in cluster analysis methods, statistical methods for nonparametric kernel density estimation. Results of project were presented at the Geological Society of America Conference in Baltimore, MD on November 1st-4th, 2015.
Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Summer 2014
Summer internship at the University of Chicago. Analyzing stellar spectra absorption features for equivalent widths. Absorption features unable to be identified as known molecules capable of being created on earth. Learning Linux and utilizing a pre-written Linux program.