I'm a third-year PhD student in the Department of Astronomy at Columbia University, where I'm working on the first stars in the early universe, supermassive blackhole origins, and SETI. My research interests span most areas of computational astrophysics and cosmology, but I'm especially interested in questions involving blackholes, the early universe, and dark matter.
I grew up in Washington state, and received my BS in physics/math and my BA in philosophy from Western Washington University (2020). My undergraduate research involved work in condensed matter (quantum dynamics), quantum foundations, astronomy, and machine learning applied to astronomy. I'm passionate about open-source code development, building the quantum simulators qubit_sim and no_wave_qm during my undergraduate research. I plan to contribute more to open-source astrophysics software.
Outside of academia I enjoy mountain climbing, skiing, videogames, piano, motorcycles, and chess.