Academic Positions
Research Associate
- Louisiana State University, April 2018 - present
- Projects: LIGO data quality, detector characterization, and calibration; software development and computing support for LIGO data analysis
- Supervisor: Gabriela Gonzalez
Postdoctoral Scholar
- California Institute of Technology, June 2016 - April 2018
- Projects: LIGO calibration and data quality; multimessenger astronomy
- Supervisor: Alan Weinstein
Research and Teaching Assistant
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, August 2010 - June 2016
- Projects: Multimessenger astronomy; compact binary astrophysics
- Advisor: Patrick Brady
Research Assistant
- Allegheny College, May 2009 - August 2010
- Projects: Modeling He-OCS collisions in interstellar gas clouds
- Advisor: Daniel Willey
Education
Ph.D., Physics
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, August 2010 - May 2016
- Advisor: Patrick Brady
- Dissertation: Monsters in the Dark: High Energy Signatures of Black Hole Formation with Multimessenger Astronomy
B.S., Physics
- Allegheny College, August 2006 - May 2010
- Mathematics and Political Science double minor
- Advisors: Shafiqur Rahman, James Lombardi
- Senior Thesis: Modeling Second-Order Phase Transitions with the 3D Potts Model
Relevant Skills
- Software development
- Python, Bash scripting, HTML, SQL, C, Fortran
- Contributer to GWPy, a Python package that enables LIGO data analysis
- Data analysis and simulation techniques
- Python (signal processing, filter design, data visualization, numerical integration, statistical inference, web scraping)
- MATLAB (signal processing, filter design, visualization)
- Condor (high-throughput computing and job scheduling)
- Controls engineering
- Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS), Motif Editor and Display Manager (MEDM)
Service Membership
- 2017 Caltech LIGO SURF program co-coordinator
- LIGO Laboratory, 2016 - present
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration, 2012 - present
- American Physical Society, 2009 - present
