I'm a NASA Hubble Fellow at UC Santa Barbara working in Dr. Max Millar-Blanchaer's Exopol Lab studying polarization and high-contrast imaging. I got my Ph.D. in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona working with Dr. Ewan Douglas, Dr. Daewook Kim, and Dr. A.J. Riggs on a NSTGRO Fellowship.

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)