Experience

Caltech Y

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Academic Tutor

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  A volunteer tutoring position in a program designed to assist at-risk and underprivileged students. Tutors teach a variety of STEM subjects to students in elementary school through community college. I tutor six hours per week and have five regular students, including one with special education needs and several whom I see multiple times per week. A volunteer tutoring position in a program designed to assist at-risk and underprivileged students. Tutors teach a variety of STEM subjects to students in elementary school through community college. I tutor six hours per week and have five regular students, including one with special education needs and several whom I see multiple times per week.



Caltech

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head Teaching Assistant

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  Head teaching assistant to the introductory physics laboratory. Responsibilities include mentoring and assisting students with laboratory work, training new teaching assistants, grading research notebooks and reports, developing and distributing assignment solutions, ongoing improvement of course assignments, holding weekly office hours, course webpage management, and design and implementation of course structure. Head teaching assistant to the introductory physics laboratory. Responsibilities include mentoring and assisting students with laboratory work, training new teaching assistants, grading research notebooks and reports, developing and distributing assignment solutions, ongoing improvement of course assignments, holding weekly office hours, course webpage management, and design and implementation of course structure.



The SETI Institute

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2019 - Oct 2020

  Full-time research assistant position with The SETI Institute and Visiting Scholar appointment at UC Berkeley. Work with Drs. Andrew Siemion and Wael Farah in the Berkeley Breakthrough Listen Lab, aiming to detect extraterrestrial technosignatures. Responsible for creating an analysis pipeline for Fast Radio Burst (FRB) detections made by the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), creating a localization algorithm to determine potential sources of FRBs, design and implementation of telescope improvements, and presentations to scientific and non-scientific audiences. Show less

• REU Intern

  • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  Summer internship involving the construction of an FRB analysis capability for the ATA. Responsibilities included data analysis using PRESTO (specialized software), writing Python code, assisting in installing telescope feeds, and presenting results to non-technical audiences.



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Scholar

  • Aug 2019 - Oct 2020

  Full-time research assistant position with The SETI Institute and Visiting Scholar appointment at UC Berkeley. Work with Drs. Andrew Siemion and Wael Farah in the Berkeley Breakthrough Listen Lab, aiming to detect extraterrestrial technosignatures. Responsible for creating an analysis pipeline for Fast Radio Burst (FRB) detections made by the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), creating a localization algorithm to determine potential sources of FRBs, design and implementation of telescope improvements, and presentations to scientific and non-scientific audiences. Show less



NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• JPL SIP Intern

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2018

  Summer internship performing digital analysis of smoke plume heights from images taken by NASA's orbiting MISR instrument. An additional project to determine the thinnest plumes detectable by this instrument was also presented in a poster session at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in December 2018. Summer internship performing digital analysis of smoke plume heights from images taken by NASA's orbiting MISR instrument. An additional project to determine the thinnest plumes detectable by this instrument was also presented in a poster session at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in December 2018.



The Summer Science Program

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Student

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  A highly selective summer research program for rising high school seniors involving advanced mathematics, computer science, and astrophysics, conducted at the University of Colorado's Boulder campus. Students determined the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid from personal observations using calculations and code written during the program. Students submitted results to the Minor Planet Center at the end of the program. A highly selective summer research program for rising high school seniors involving advanced mathematics, computer science, and astrophysics, conducted at the University of Colorado's Boulder campus. Students determined the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid from personal observations using calculations and code written during the program. Students submitted results to the Minor Planet Center at the end of the program.