Experience

SandboxAQ

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Physicist

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  Palo Alto, California, United States



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Scientist

  • Jun 2020 - Sep 2023

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Search for Axion Dark Matter (ABRACADABRA/DMRadio) • Lead the design, development and operation of a prototype novel Axion Dark Matter detector • Design simulation and validation in COMSOL • Installation and operation in a dilution refrigeration and operation below 1 K • Built superconducting low-noise SQUID-based readout • Designed and developed data acquisition and hardware feedback software, data ingestion and storage, data architecture • Oversaw project through multiple… Show more Search for Axion Dark Matter (ABRACADABRA/DMRadio) • Lead the design, development and operation of a prototype novel Axion Dark Matter detector • Design simulation and validation in COMSOL • Installation and operation in a dilution refrigeration and operation below 1 K • Built superconducting low-noise SQUID-based readout • Designed and developed data acquisition and hardware feedback software, data ingestion and storage, data architecture • Oversaw project through multiple data taking campaigns and publications Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (CUORE/CUPID) • Lead developer of the core software infrastructure • Team leader for development of data clustering and selection, model building, and Bayesian estimation • Developing machine learning algorithms for signal discovery • Time stream filtering and state estimation over thousands of detector channels • Oversaw and coordinated all collaboration analysis development

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Jun 2015 - Jun 2020

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher PhD Candidate

  • Sep 2009 - May 2015

  Berkeley, California, United States CUORE-0 Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay • Developed high level analysis for final CUORE-0 NDBD result • Developed Bayesian fit framework to perform simultaneous fit across 52 channels to characterize detector performance and extract physics results • Developed multi-channel noise decorrelation and crosstalk characterization and removal • Developed c++ algorithms for time-based signal filtering and feature extraction Development of Superconducting Transition Edge… Show more CUORE-0 Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay • Developed high level analysis for final CUORE-0 NDBD result • Developed Bayesian fit framework to perform simultaneous fit across 52 channels to characterize detector performance and extract physics results • Developed multi-channel noise decorrelation and crosstalk characterization and removal • Developed c++ algorithms for time-based signal filtering and feature extraction Development of Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors • Characterization of Ir/Pt, Ir/Au bilayer superconducting sensors with transition temperatures as low as 20mK Show less