CV
When I started college in 2007, I set out inspired to figure out how the world works.
My quest naturally ventured into engineering, then physics and computation, always finding more to learn even after completing graduate school in 2018.
Now as a physicist and computational scientist, I use computer algorithms to research the world around us.
I like working on open-source scientific codes and openly publishing my findings whenever possible because I have, in turn, learned quite a lot from open-access research papers and public codes.
Similarly, I enjoy teaching, advising, and giving public talks so I can make science accessible for others just as my many academic and research mentors have done for me over the years.
What follows is a brief overview of my journey and research career so far.
If you would prefer, you may also download my CV as a PDF.
Most Recent Position
- 2022-2024: Project Scientist, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering
- 2018-2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering
Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road Mailstop 50A3111
Berkeley, CA 94720
Academics
Education
- Stony Brook University - Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Ph.D., Physics, August 2018
- LeTourneau University - Longview, TX, USA
- B.S., Engineering Physics, May 2011
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, May 2011
- Minors: Mathematics, Applied Sciences
Fellowships
- 2011 - 2018: Turner Fellow, Stony Brook University Center for Inclusive Education
- 2007 - 2011: Heritage Scholarship, LeTourneau University
Professional Development
- 2019: Participated in GPU Hackathon organized by NERSC
- 2018: Participated in GPU Hackathon at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- 2018: Participated in GPU Hackathon at University of Colorado, Boulder
- 2018: Achieved Software Carpentry instructor certification
- 2017: Participated in GPU Hackathon at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- 2016: Participated in GPU Hackathon hosted by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
- 2015: Participated in GPU Hackathon hosted by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
- 2015: Studied at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing
- 2014: Studied at the MESA Summer School for simulating massive stars, accreting white dwarfs, stellar mixing processes and more at UC Santa Barbara
- 2014: Studied at the JINA TALENT Course on Nuclear Theory for Astrophysics at Michigan State University
Research
Funding Proposals
- 2023: (Partially Funded) Bioreactor digital twinning - Accelerating bioprocess scaling by combining computational fluid dynamics with metabolic modeling
- role: Principal Investigator
- collaborators: Co-Investigator Hector Garcia Martin (LBNL, Biosciences Area)
- institution: Berkeley Lab FY 2024 Multi-Area LDRD
- 2023: (Not Funded) Advancing AMR-Wind Turbine Simulations With Machine Learning
- role: Principal Investigator
- collaborators: Co-Investigators Adam Lavely (LBNL) and Ganesh Vijayakumar (NREL)
- institution: DOE Wind Energy Technologies Office
- 2023: (Not Funded) Artificial Intelligence for Multiscale Wind Modeling with the ERF Simulation Code
- role: Principal Investigator
- institution: DOE Wind Energy Technologies Office
Computing Time Awards
- 2023: Co-Investigator, INCITE 2023 award, Exascale Models of Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions (Awarded: 400 k node-hours on Summit, 300 k node-hours on Frontier, 100 k node-hours on Polaris)
- 2022: Co-Investigator, INCITE 2022 award at OLCF, Approaching Exascale Models of Astrophysical Explosions (Awarded: 590 k node-hours on Summit)
- 2021: Senior Investigator, NERSC 2021 Allocation, Three-dimensional studies of white dwarfs, massive stars, and neutron star systems (Awarded: 30 M MPP hours)
- 2021: Senior Investigator, NERSC 2021 Allocation, Neutrino Flavor Transformation in Neutron Star Mergers (Awarded: 18 M MPP hours)
- 2021: Senior Investigator, NERSC 2021 Allocation, Astrophysics of Supernova Progenitors (Awarded: 13 M MPP hours)
- 2020: Senior Investigator, NERSC 2020 Allocation, Three-dimensional studies of white dwarfs, massive stars, and neutron star systems (Awarded: 30 M MPP hours)
- 2019-2020: Co-Investigator, INCITE 2019 award at OLCF, Approaching Exascale Models of Astrophysical Explosions (Awarded 2019: 1.5 M node-hours on Titan, 105 k node-hours on Summit; Awarded 2020: 300 k node-hours on Summit)
- 2018: Senior Investigator, NERSC 2018 Allocation, Three-dimensional studies of white dwarf and neutron star systems (Awarded: 20.8 M MPP hours)
- 2018: Co-Investigator, INCITE 2018 award at OLCF, Approaching Exascale Models of Astrophysical Explosions (Awarded: 40 Mh)
Scientific Software
- 2022-2024: Core developer of the ERF simulation code for large-scale (ie. mesoscopic) weather modeling
- 2019-present: Co-creator of the Emu simulation code for astrophysical neutrino quantum kinetics in 6-dimensional phase space
- 2019-present: Co-creator of the STvAR Eulerian code generation framework for solving PDEs on adaptive meshes.
- 2018-present: Core developer of the Castro simulation code for astrophysical radiation-hydrodynamics on adaptive meshes
- 2017-present: Co-creator of the StarSTRUQ github organization for publicly-available code implementing uncertainty quantification algorithms useful for stellar evolution calculations
- 2016-present: Co-creator of pynucastro, a publicly-available Python interface to the JINA Reaclib nuclear reaction rate database for rate visualization and ODE right hand side code generation in Python and C++
- 2015-present: Core developer of the StarKiller Microphysics code, a collection of publicly-available astrophysical microphysics routines and nuclear reaction network integrators
Research Advising
- 2019–2021: Eloise Yang
- Co-mentor for LBNL intern
- 2020–2021: Nicole Ford
- Associate mentor for Fall 2020 & Spring 2021 DOE SULI intern at LBNL
- Summer 2021: Chris Degrendele
- Mentor for NSF MSGI intern at LBNL
- Summer 2020: Chris Degrendele
- Mentor for LBNL summer intern
- Summer 2020: Ty Frazier
- Mentor for NSF MSGI intern at LBNL
- Summer 2019: Chris Degrendele
- Co-mentor for LBNL summer intern
- Summer 2019: Kiran Eiden
- Co-mentor for LBNL summer intern
Professional Service
- ongoing: Referee for the Astrophysical Journal
- ongoing: Referee for Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
- 2021: Organizer for SIAM CSE 2021 Minisymposium MS137: Machine Learning Approaches in Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology
Outreach and Teaching
Community Outreach
- Spring 2022: Volunteer Judge for Oakland Unified School District Elementary Science Fair
- 10/20/2020: Panelist at CAUSE Career Panel, University of Minnesota
- 06/18/2019: How to Simulate a Thermonuclear Supernova - public talk at the Berkeley Public Library
- 01/2019: Judge for Chambliss poster competition at the 233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- 02/21/2018: Saturn in 13 Years: the Cassini-Huygens Mission - public talk at the Astronomical Society of Long Island, Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium
- 11/03/2017: Saturn in 13 Years: the Cassini-Huygens Mission - public talk in the Astronomy Open Night Series, Stony Brook University
Teaching Experience
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 2019,2020,2021: ATPESC Lecturer Support Staff
- Designed and presented hands-on exercises for the AMReX code at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing.
- 2019,2020,2021: ATPESC Lecturer Support Staff
- Stony Brook University
- Spring 2017: WISE Computational Astrophysics
- Co-instructor for a computational astrophysics course for the Women In Science and Engineering program.
- Summer 2015: IACS Computes!
- Teaching assistant for a Python programming workshop for high school students by the Institute for Advanced Computational Sciences.
- Spring 2014: Astronomy
- Teaching assistant for an undergraduate astronomy course.
- Spring 2013: Modern Physics
- Teaching assistant instructor for an undergraduate laboratory on relativity and quantum mechanics.
- Summer 2012: Introduction to Calculus II
- Instructor for a 3-week course on integral calculus for incoming freshman students.
- 2012: Introductory Physics
- Teaching assistant instructor for undergraduate laboratory on electricity and magnetism.
- Spring 2017: WISE Computational Astrophysics
- LeTourneau University
- Fall, 2008-2010: Electricity and Magnetism
- Recitation instructor for undergraduates taking the physics course on electricity and magnetism.
- Spring 2010: Classical Mechanics
- Recitation instructor for undergraduates taking the physics course on classical mechanics.
- Fall, 2008-2010: Electricity and Magnetism