Physics PhD student at Cornell University.
I work in experimental cosmology - I build the tools that let telescopes study the early universe.
I work on the hardware, software, and data analysis systems behind experiments like TIME and Prime-Cam.
I am a second-year PhD student in Physics at Cornell University, working in experimental cosmology. I work on instrumentation, software development, and data analysis for the TIME and Prime-Cam experiments, focusing on superconducting TES and microwave KID detector systems. Outside of research, I enjoy spending time outdoors—being in the sun or near water always lifts my mood. I also love creative projects like painting, crocheting, and building things, and I’m always exploring new hobbies; recently I’ve gotten into climbing, knitting, and building computers.
I work with Dr. Abigail Crites on the TIME (Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment) project, a telescope instrument designed to make 3D maps of star-forming galaxies in the early universe. TIME measures faint millimeter-wave light—specifically the [CII] line to study how galaxies evolved over cosmic time. My work involves building and testing parts of the instrument, helping integrate it onto the telescope at Kitt Peak, and developing the software and analysis pipeline that will process the data once observations begin.
I also work with Dr. Mike Niemack on Prime-Cam, a next-generation submillimeter telescope being built to study cosmic structure, star formation, and the physics of the early universe. Prime-Cam uses large arrays of sensitive detectors to collect enormous amounts of data, and I develop software that supports its data acquisition system so that the instrument can reliably read out, organize, and store detector information during observations.
