Experience

Observatories of The Carnegie Institution for Science

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • May 2019 - Present

  Pasadena, CA — Led the spectrograph system integration and test for the Local Volume Mapper instrument (sdss.org/dr15/future/lvm/) in an international collaboration. — Brought up clean room optical test facility + formulated and executed testing processes for fiber, spectroscopic and CCD imaging systems. — Simulated spectrograph performance in Zemax, informed design requirements, constructed test apparatus and managed test schedule and budget.



Caltech

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Oct 2013 - May 2019

  Pasadena, California, United States — Ph.D. thesis: CCD imaging charge transport performance for space-based UV astronomy — Devised novel optimizations in CCD readout to counter the damaging effects of the space radiation environment (using solid state physics, sensor pixel architecture, sensor characterization). — Commissioned a new CCD imaging camera for the prime focus of the Hale telescope.



NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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

• Visiting Research Student

  • Jun 2017 - Sep 2017

  Pasadena, CA WFIRST EMCCD detector development.



The University of Queensland

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Scientist

  • Jan 2013 - Aug 2013

  Brisbane, Australia Magnetohydrodynamic shock refraction modeling.



Defence Science and Technology Group

• Australia
• Defense & Space
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • Dec 2008 - Feb 2009

  Melbourne CFD in the Hydrodynamics division.



CSIRO

• Australia
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Nov 2007 - Jan 2008

  Melbourne, Australia — Performed computational numerical modeling using a newly developed Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code in the Math & Information Sciences division. — Modeled ocean tsunami waves impacting USGS bathymetry to recreate historical tsunamis. — By matching the wave height and speed, I found good agreement on inundation distance and run-up length. — Best research presentation among a group of 30 students.