Education

Ph.D. (Physics)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014–2020)

B.S. (Mathematics–Physics Double Major)

Harvey Mudd College (2010–2014)

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher (Virginia Tech Particle Theory Group, 2024–2025)

Heterotic model building
F-theory and supergravity
Development of computational tool FTheoryTools

Postdoctoral Researcher (UPenn High Energy Theory Group, 2020–2024)

F-theory and supergravity
Stringy constructions of disorder averaging
Topological non-decoupling in QFT
Development of computational tool FTheoryTools
Machine learning Calabi–Yau topologies

Graduate Researcher (MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, 2014–2020)

Research in supergravity and F-theory under Dr. Washington Taylor
Research in supersymmetry and heavy-ion jet physics under Dr. Jesse Thaler
Research in transformation optics

Undergraduate Researcher (HMC Department of Physics, 2013–2014)

Research in quantum information and optics under Dr. Theresa Lynn

Teaching Experience

Primary Instructor (Virginia Tech Physics Department, 2024)

PHYS 2305: Foundations of Physics (Summer 2024, F2024)

Hadron Collider Physics Summer School Discussion Leader (CERN, 2021)

Teaching Assistant (MIT Physics Department, 2015–2020)

8.04: Quantum Physics I (F2015, S2016)
8.21: Physics of Energy (S2018, S2020)
8.321: Quantum Theory I (F2017)
8.962: General Relativity (S2017)

Teaching Assistant (HMC Mathematics Department, 2014)

Math 106: Combinatorics (S2014)