Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Fellow, performing experimental dark matter physics research for the SPICE/HeRALD Collaboration.

• Built and upgraded data acquisition system to be fully automated - which reduced required

manpower to one person - and fully remote - which reduced active time spent by 90%.

• Employed causal inference and predictive models and verified the effectiveness of a

potential strategy for the collaboration.

• Designed first instrumented superconducting IrPt bilayer Transition Edge Sensor (TES)

device chips and measured first instances of quasiparticle diffusion in superconducting

aluminum fins attached to an IrPt TES.

Performed experimental dark matter physics research for the SPICE/HeRALD collaboration

• Performed time series and event-based analysis, which contributed to multiple papers,

including a world-leading physics publication (currently in-preparation).

• Constructed pipelines in Python for processing raw data. Employed causal inference and

predictive models, which uncovered a 150% to 350% increase in device performance.

• Coordinated and led dilution refrigerator runs and maintenance.

Research assistant performing cryogenic and biophysics research.

• Created the code basis (in C) of time series data digitization for the lab. Performed multivariate event ordering.

• Designed and ran tests verifying the effectiveness of critical sub-processes of the main data acquisition device in the lab.

• Studied and modeled the Brownian motion of stochastic particles.