Experience

Flypower.io — Research Quality Analyst

Jan 2026 – Mar 2026 | Remote

  • Reviewed and validated AI-generated analysis for 15 high-impact renewable energy risk reports
  • Developed prompt engineering and QA methodology supporting permitting for 20 GW of renewable projects

Arbic Lab, University of Michigan — Climate Data Scientist & Algorithm Developer

2021 – 2025 | Ann Arbor, MI

  • Designed spatio-temporal spectral decomposition algorithm (NumPy, SciPy, Xarray, Dask) for NASA’s coupled Earth-system simulation (MITgcm/GEOS5)
  • Built parallelized ETL pipelines on NASA Pleiades HPC processing ~1 TB of NetCDF climate simulation data
  • Work published in Physical Review Fluids (2025)

Lubensky Lab, University of Michigan — Biophysical Data Scientist & Simulation Engineer

2018 – 2025 | Ann Arbor, MI

  • Built the first semi-automated image analysis pipeline (Python, OpenCV, scikit-learn, FIJI) processing ~1 TB of microscopy data across hundreds of experimental conditions, achieving 10x throughput over prior manual workflow
  • Engineered a C++ physics-based simulation of 100,000+ heterogeneous cells with stochastic dynamics and spatially varying mechanical properties, incorporating mitosis, apoptosis, and periodic boundary conditions
  • Developed custom signal detection algorithm (NumPy, SciPy) quantitatively proving the existence of stereotyped cell size patterns in Drosophila wing tissue
  • Supervised 5 undergraduate researchers on simulation, statistical inference, and image analysis

Carlson Lab, UC Santa Barbara — Undergraduate Researcher, Worster Fellow

2017 – 2019 | Santa Barbara, CA

  • Applied graph-theoretic methods to develop novel structural indicators for bone disease diagnostics in human trabecular bone. First-author publication in Physical Review E (2019).
  • Built semi-automated pipelines to analyze microCT confocal images and generate 3D structural metrics of trabecular bone.