Experience

Caltech

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student

  • Sep 2022 - Present



University of California, Davis

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant, Chiang Lab at UC Davis

  • Jul 2020 - Jul 2022

  · Studying the diffusive properties of lead evaporated onto germanium as a function of coverage and temperature. Work primary is carried out on Low-Energy Electron Microscope (LEEM), as well as scanning tunneling microscopy.· Facilitating the repair, improvement, and operation of a variable temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Creating analysis methods for processing STM data.· Developed and deployed an automation system for germanium sample cleaning. Worked to help optimize sample cleaning methods to the lab’s needs.· Designing custom analog circuitry for STM components. Show less

• UC Davis COSMOS Teaching Intern

  • Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

  Teaching high achieving high school students about computational and experimental physics.

• Research Assistant, Da Silva Neto Lab at UC Davis

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2020

  · Studied cuprate superconductors using scanning tunneling microscopy and scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS). Worked to observe quantum effects on matter in a state of the art STM system.· Developed custom tools and techniques to facilitate the analysis of STM and STS data, including real and inverse space viewing, as well as density of states visualization.· Performed repairs and upgrades on vacuum equipment.· Explored the use of machine learning in the analysis of topographical data, by modifying already published techniques and libraries. Show less



NASA Ames Research Center

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • Dec 2020 - May 2021

  · Investigated the thermodynamics and atomic ordering in high-temperature alloys for jet engines. Worked with the NASA computational materials group. · Performed the cluster expansion (CE) method to predict the thermodynamic properties of novel superalloy precipitates using the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Center. · Predicted previously unobserved precipitate ground state structures. Work was ultimately provided to experimental groups at NASA to guide their experimentation. · Coordinated internship logistics using Microsoft Teams. · Wrote new and altered existing CE code. Ultimately enabled future groups at NASA to use the CE toolkit. Show less