2013–2017·Boulder, CONuclear

University of Colorado Boulder

B.A. & Sc., Physics — Magna Cum Laude

Where physics became instruments.

I came to physics through the hardware. As an undergraduate in the Nagle group I worked on detector R&D for sPHENIX, the high-energy nuclear-physics experiment at Brookhaven National Lab — and discovered that I liked building the instrument at least as much as the physics it measured.

That instinct — solve the physics by building the thing that measures it — is the through-line of everything since.

20+

Analyses using my code

National labs (BNL, FNAL)

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What I did

Designed and built an automated QC test stand for the sPHENIX hadronic calorimeter at Brookhaven, measuring gain uniformity across scintillator panels.
Developed a C++ pile-up detection algorithm incorporated into the PHENIX collaboration software library — used in 20+ published nuclear-physics analyses.
Assembled and tested calorimeter prototype components and operated the collider DAQ at Fermilab.
Graduated Magna Cum Laude.

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Projects

sPHENIX Calorimeter QC Test Stand

Nagle Group · Brookhaven

Designed and built an automated test stand to measure gain uniformity across the hadronic calorimeter's scintillator panels — the QC gate before installation.

Automated · Brookhaven National Lab

Nuclear

Pile-Up Detection Algorithm

PHENIX Collaboration

Wrote a C++ pile-up detection algorithm that was adopted into the collaboration's shared software library and used across the group's published analyses.

C++ · 20+ analyses

Nuclear

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