Research Insterests

  • Cosmology
  • Dark Energy
  • Dark Matter
  • Vacuum Decay
  • Early Universe
  • Quantum Information

Past and Ongoing Research Projects

Inside Vacuum Decay
Advisors: Dr. Katie Mack and Dr. Matthew Johnson
Calculating observables in a Universe where the Milky Way is in a sub-horizon scale vacuum bubble. (2024 - Present)

DESI BAO Fit Testing
Advisor: Dr. Will Percival
Co-advisor: Dr. Alex Krolewski
Testing the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) fitting pipeline on a range of cosmological simulations that include varied \w_0, \w_a parameters. (2023 - 2024)

Impact of Peculiar Velocities on Galaxy Survey Cuts
Advisor: Dr. Niayesh Afshordi
Co-advisor: Dr. Alex Krolewski
Determining how sizeable of an effect galaxy peculiar velocities makes on the number density of Emission Line Galaxies, and connecting this outcome to cosmological observables. (2023 - 2024)

Quantum Tasks/Connected Enganglement Wedges with a Black Hole
Advisor: Dr. Robert Myers
Co-advisor: Dr. Olga Papadoulaki
Placing a black hole in the bulk of AdS and examining how this impacts connected entanglement wedges on the boundary and scattering in the bulk. (2022 - 2023)
Holographic scattering and non-minimal RT surfaces

Dark Energy Quintessence Research
Collaborator: Dr. Morgane Konig
Examining whether a newly proposed model of dark matter and dark energy fits with well-established cosmology. (2020 - 2022)

Deeper Dive into Qunatum Field Theory Renormalization
Advisor: Professor Jeremy Kahn
Explored the use of analytic continuation to define specific renormalization methods more rigorously. (2020 - 2022)

Physics and Machine Learning Pedagogy
Advisor: Professor Stephon Alexander
Collaborators: Michael Toomey, Sarah Bawabe
Developed a primer on machine learning to help researchers apply ML in all fields of physical science. (2020 - 2021)
The Physics of Machine Learning: An Intuitive Introduction for the Physical Scientist

Quantum Chemistry Computation
Advisor: Professor Brenda Rubenstein
Developed software used to determine Hamiltonians and their approximate associated energy for arbitrary 2D Ising models. (2019 - 2020)