I'm a Ph.D. Candidate in Optical Sciences and NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity (NSTGRO) recipient at the University of Arizona working with Dr. Ewan Douglas, Dr. Daewook Kim, and Dr. A.J. Riggs.

My primary research interests are in integrated physical optics modeling for high-contrast imaging, with a particular emphasis on linking ray traces with wave propagation, and polarization.

• Poke: An open-source ray-based physical optics platform that uses ray-tracing API's (Zemax, CODE V) to democratize ray data and add more physics to the optical modeling pipeline. (lead developer)
• Katsu: An open-source polarimetry package with support for full Stokes and Mueller polarimeters that employ rotating retarders. (lead developer)
• prysm: An open-source numerical optics package by Brandon Dube. (contributor)

• Visiting Technologist @ NASA Goddard
• Visiting Scholar @ W.M. Keck Observatory
• Visiting Technologist @ NASA JPL
• Visiting Technologist @ Subaru Telescope
• NASA JPL Summer Internship Program
• UH Hilo IfA REU
• Akamai Workforce Initiative Intern (UC Santa Cruz, UH IfA Maui)
• University of Rochester (UR Nano, Integrated Photonic Systems Lab, Thomas Brown's lab)