Experience

Xairos

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quantum Engineer - Software

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  Working with a small R&D team to develop quantum communications systems for clock-synchronization. Because of the nature of an early-stage start-up, my position fulfills multiple technical and non-technical roles.• Developing high-performance Python software for implementation of quantum clock synchronization protocols. • Implementing knowledge of quantum systems into code for data analysis and simulation.• Reading relevant scientific literature in quantum information and implementing technical knowledge toward the development of our systems.• Communicating with vendors over technical specifications and development road maps of quantum optics hardware, including entangled-photon sources and single photon detectors.• Establishing and maintaining relationships with external institutions and research partners.• Creating materials for presentations in national and international conferences and meetings, as well as investor briefings. Show less

• Intern

  • Jul 2022 - Oct 2022

  Working with Xairos Systems Inc. to provide secure and accurate timing through our proprietary Quantum Clock Synchronization (QCS) protocol.Communicated with vendors over technical specifications and development road maps of quantum optics hardware, including entangled-photon sources and single photon detectors.Developed educational material on quantum technologies for internal employee and investor review.



The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instructor

  • Jan 2022 - Jul 2022

  • Taught face-to-face and online laboratory sections for various introductoryphysics and astronomy courses. Prepared class material and graded laboratoryreports. Contributed to continuous improvement of online physics instruction

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Taught online laboratory sections for various introductory physics and astronomycourses. Graded laboratory reports and held recitations.

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2019 - Dec 2021

  • Developed a theoretical and computational model to study the dynamicalCasimir effect in an array of non-adiabatically driven superconducting quantuminterference devices (SQUIDs) embedded in a coplanar waveguide.• Performed symbolic calculations in Mathematica and numerical analysis inPython to model the output photon-flux density of a tunable system.• Made use of theoretical methods in circuit quantum electrodynamics and solid state physics.

• Research Assistant. Center for Advanced Radio Astronomy.

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2016

  • Frequently acted as operator for the Arecibo Radio Telescope (then the largest radio telescope in the world) over the course of four years as part of the large- scale PALFA pulsar survey. Responsible for the discovery of a radio pulsar (J0640-00). Operated the Arecibo Radio Telescope in-situ to perform pulsar timing observations of double radio pulsar system, 10th system of the sort ever observed (J1411+2551). Occasionally operated the Green Bank radio telescope and the Long-Wavelength Array. • Developed data analysis software for X-Ray Binary search in data from NASA’s Swift telescope. Results presented in American Astronomical Society conference. • Acted as team leader, supervising a team of undergraduate and graduate students in the center (2015-2016). Show less



Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  • Developed automated data analysis pipeline using parallel computation with the Atlas Computing Cluster (∼40,000 CPUs), as well as the Einstein@Home volunteer computing effort to process daily new data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. • Project aided in the discovery of multiple neutron-stars, including the first ever discovered gamma-ray millisecond pulsar. A series of publications in high impact journals followed. • Developed automated data analysis pipeline using parallel computation with the Atlas Computing Cluster (∼40,000 CPUs), as well as the Einstein@Home volunteer computing effort to process daily new data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. • Project aided in the discovery of multiple neutron-stars, including the first ever discovered gamma-ray millisecond pulsar. A series of publications in high impact journals followed.