Austin, Texas, United States
Patent Agent helping clients obtian patent protection across variety of industries, including optics, semiconductors, and green tech.
I study the electro-optic (EO) response and anharmonicity in perovskite crystals in the hopes of finding a design rule to enhance the EO response. Using the TACC supercomputer, I can complete computationally demanding calculations with the softwares Abinit and VASP. I then write my own code to analyze those results.
I ran multiple sections of the Electromagnetism for Engineers lab for undergraduates. I both lectured the background material and assisted students in the completion of the lab.
I conducted research to aid in the creation of state of the art optical parametric oscillators (OPOs). My time was split between the lab, where I built lasers with free-space optical components, and processing data using MATLAB. My most significant contribution was in the developing a fiber-based OPO and authoring a paper about these pioneering results.
Using Python and astronomical imaging software DS9, I analyzed Dark Energy Survey (DES) data to study galaxy formation. This research combined several aspects of astrophysics, such as weak gravitational lensing, redshift, and how instrumentation impacts data. In the end, I was able to produce a scientifically useful image of a globular cluster, as sometimes regions of interest in an image are easier to identify by eye.