Projects

HPC for Cosmological Summary Statistics

At Argonne National Lab, I developed and optimized GPU code to compute cosmological summary statistics with supercomputers.

UCSC Masters Thesis

For my masters thesis at UCSC, I analyzed the predictions of galaxy simulation codes.

Computational Seismology

As an intern at the Southern California Earthquake Center, I improved the runtime of an earthquake simulation.

Dynamical Systems

For a graduate class, I wrote Python notebooks simulating dynamical systems and outlining phase space reconstruction.

About Me

My computing experience ranges from analyzing simulations to optimizing CPU and GPU programs for scientific computing. Most recently, I spent a year working in the Cosmological Physics and Advanced Computing department at Argonne National Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Matthew Becker. At Argonne, I developed and optimized GPU code for the computation of cosmological summary statistics, and worked on tools for the optimization and Monte Carlo sampling of a fully differentiable model. My code ran and scaled effectively on the lab's Polaris (petascale) and Aurora (exascale) supercomputers.

Prior to working at Argonne, I completed my masters in Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) in the summer of 2023. I am wrote my thesis analyzing the predictions of different hydrodynamical simulation codes, and comparing those predictions to spectroscopic data from the Keck telescope. In my thesis, I addressed both the astrophysical implications of the comparison, and how the simulation backends played a role in the predictions of a given code.

As an undergraduate at UCSC, I studied physics and computer science graduating in 2022. As an undergraduate, I worked on some data aspects of the Merian survey with Professor Leauthaud, and observed remotely on the Keck and Blanco telescopes. I also spent several months as an intern at the Southern California Earthquake Center, where I interfaced Matlab and C++ to improve the runtime of an earthquake simulation using hierarchical matrices.

I first became involved in applied math and computational physics through an interest in software development, and I still enjoy working on small personal projects. When I'm not busy applying the math or furiously typing, I also enjoy the outside world. I am a fan of both watching and playing soccer, riding bikes, and I recently learned how to sew. I would hesitate to call myself a photographer, but I'll bring a camera with me when I know I'll be somewhere photogenic; below are a few of my favorite photos.

A lifeguard tower in Long Beach

A butterfly I found in Maui

Godafoss waterfall, Iceland

The view from Djupivogur, Iceland