I recently graduated from Arizona State University with a double major in Astrophysics and Physics, and a minor in Data Science. My work focuses on using observations and computational models to study everything from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the early universe to Asteroids in our own solar system.
This past summer, I was a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow at Caltech, where I worked with Dr. Joe Masiero on modeling the thermophysical properties of Near-Earth Asteroids using NEOWISE data. I also helped develop an algorithm to identify solar system objects for the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Before that, I worked at the Low-Frequency Cosmology Lab under Dr. Judd Bowman, analyzing ionospheric effects on radio observations from the EDGES telescope. For my senior thesis, I collaborated with Dr. Nathaniel Butler to study high-redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts using follow-up data from the Colibri Telescope in Mexico.
Outside of research, I enjoy hiking desert trails, painting when I get the chance, and playing the sitar. I’m planning to pursue graduate studies in Astrophysics, with a focus on computational modeling and data analysis.