Education

Yale

PhD student, Yale University, New Haven, CT

• Expected in 2019
• PhD Thesis: “Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with Majoron Emission in CUORE”

Masters in Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Awarded December 2016

Masters of Philosophy in Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Awarded December 2016

Texas A&M

Summa Cum Laude B.S. Physics, Minor in Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, May 2013

• Senior Thesis: “Efficiency Measurement of Momentum Imbalance Trigger for Supersymmetry Searches at CMS at the LHC” (link)
• Advisor: Dr. David Toback

Research

Yale

• CUORE Data Analysis, 2014-Present
  • Assessed systematic contributions for 2-neutrino double-beta decay measurement efforts
  • Quantified Toy Monte Carlo and systematics studies for world-leading Te130 0-neutrino limit results
• CUORE Simulations Working Group, 2014-Present
  • Generated Geant4 simulations to simulate radioactive decays in the experimental setup
  • Explored additional sources in background model for CUORE
• CUORE Detector Calibration System software and hardware, 2014-Present
  • Updated Labview software to run motors to operate in calibration
  • Wrote technical documentation to perform calibration
  • Designed, installed, and tested hardware on site
  • Performed monthly calibrations for each CUORE dataset

Texas A&M

• CMS trigger study for search for Supersymmetry via coannihilation, 2012-2013
  • Studied efficiency of HLT_PFMET150 trigger
  • Studied Monte Carlo events through PFMet150 trigger
  • Used CMS Tier3 site with grid computing

• Analysis technique comparison, 2010-2011
  • Compared using two selection criteria to a single selection criteria
  • Calculated the expected cross section limits for each analysis technique on results from CDF data

Papers

Yale

Selected list of papers where I have made significant contributions. Due to my contributions on CUORE, I am an author on all collaboration papers, as is standard practice in the field. See more at INSPIRE.

• First Results from CUORE: A Search for Leption Number Violation via 0\nu\beta\beta Decay of Te-130.
  • arxiv:1710.07988
• The Detector Calibration System for the CUORE Cyrogenic Bolometer Array.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 844, 32-44 (2017)
  • arxiv:1710.05565

Texas A&M

• “Efficiency Measurement of Momentum Imbalance Trigger for Supersymmetry Searches at CMS at the LHC”
  • Advisor: David Toback
  • TAMU Undergraduate Research Scholars Thesis
  • http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/148864

• “Finding New Subatomic Particles”
  • TAMU Honors Undergraduate Journal, Published Fall 2012
  • link, article starts on page 53 (warning, may load slowly)

Teaching

Yale

• McDougal Graduate Teaching Fellow at the Center for Teaching and Learning, Fall 2017-Spring 2018
• Residential College Math&Science Tutor at Davenport College, Fall 2016-Spring 2018
• TF Physics 524: Introduction to Nuclear Physics, Fall 2016
• TF Physics 181: Introductory Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2015, Spring 2016
• TF Physics 200: Advanced Introductory Mechanics, Fall 2014
• TA Yale SMDEP (Summer Medical and Dental Education Program) Physics, Summer 2014
• TF Physics 166L: Introductory Physics Lab, Spring 2014
• TF Physics 165L: Introductory Physics Lab, Fall 2013

Texas A&M

• Writing TA Physics 107 –Introductory Cosmology Course for non-science majors, Fall 2012-Spring 2013
• TA Physics 117 –Companion lab course for 107, Fall 2011-Spring 2012

Awards

Yale Certificate of College Teaching Preparation

Yale Scientific Teaching Fellow

National Merit Scholar

Undergraduate Students Mentored

Yale

• Nikita Dutta
• Ivy Wanta
• Surya Dutta
• Katie Melbourne
• Byron Daniel

Outreach Affiliations

• Pathways to Science
• Yale GradSWE
• Yale Physics GSI