Research portfolio

Research projects

From designing optical devices to validating inference on hardware, these projects explore how to measure and interpret weak physical signals.

Selected research

Northeastern University · M.S. thesis · 2024

Engineering Supermodes of Coupled Resonator Arrays

I modeled coupled ring-resonator arrays and used Fourier-domain perturbations and numerical optimization to target spectral shifts while limiting changes to neighboring modes. The simulations explored spectral control for nonlinear photonic devices and compensation for resonator disorder.

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A ten-ring resonator chain and two plots showing its simulated drop-port transmission spectrum — Thesis Figure 1.2 · Simulated drop-port spectrum of a ten-ring chain. View full-size figure

QuantumCTek · Field experiment · 2023

Photon Counting on a Free-Space Optical Link

I worked on calibration for a polarization-encoded quantum communication link. I aligned the optics, characterized the photon-counting signal and background, and documented the configuration and stability of a 2 km outdoor link test.

Schematic showing a transmitter sending light across a two-kilometer free-space link to a photon detector — Conceptual view of the transmitter, outdoor path, and photon-counting receiver.

Independent study · Public CUORE data

Detector Waveform Inference on FPGA

I audited 10,000 waveform windows for exact overlap and used group-aware splits to study evaluation leakage. I tested compact classifiers under registration shifts and fixed-point quantization.

On an Arty A7-100T, a 16-bit hls4ml MLP matched C simulation bit for bit across 1,350 validation events. On-board counters measured a model-core latency of 2.78 µs.

16-bit fixed point
1,350 validation events
2.78 µs model-core latency

Workflow from an illustrated detector waveform to fixed-point inference on an Arty A7 FPGA — Inference workflow. The pulse is illustrative; the latency is the measured model-core result.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2024–2025

Gravitational-Wave Parameter Estimation

I contributed preprocessing, resampling, and parameter-constraint modules to Bilby and AMPLFI workflows and evaluated how those choices affected computation and robustness.

Earlier & adjacent work

Radio astronomy · 2021–2022

Milky Way Rotation from the 21 cm Hydrogen Line

I processed neutral-hydrogen spectra to estimate line-of-sight velocities and compared the resulting rotation curve with models of luminous matter and a dark-matter halo.

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Northern Arizona University · 2022

Resistive Memory Reliability

I analyzed switching and endurance measurements for more than 500 samples and compared how ruthenium and tungsten-oxide structures behaved over repeated cycles.

Caltech undergraduate research project · 2021

Gravitational Wave Data Analysis

I explored how to identify weak signals in public LIGO data using frequency-domain filtering, waveform-template matching, and Bayesian ranking concepts.

Northern Arizona University · Capstone · 2021–2022

Greenhouse Monitoring and Control System

I led the design of an IoT system that monitored temperature, soil moisture, and illumination and automated greenhouse controls using Arduino and PostgreSQL.

UnionGPT · Research software

Research Software for Archival Work

I designed a workflow for organizing source notes and archival metadata, then built evaluation cases to check which materials supported generated answers.