Highlighted Research Projects

A complete list of my published projects can be found on either NASA ADS or Google Scholar. Some relevant projects are:

• Open mulTiwavelength Transient Even Repository (OTTER):
  OTTER is a work in progress with the goal of hosting a cleaned version of all public time domain photometry. The current dataset and codes are available at the OTTER github. This will be migrated to a more permanent and scalable hosting environment in the near future.


• Constraining the Neutrino Magnetic Dipole Moment:
  By modifying the MESA codes and evoloving stars up until the tip of the red giant branch, I used a novel machine learning methodology to place constraints on the neutrino magnetic dipole moment. This work was with Dr. Jeremy Sakstein and Mitchell Dennis at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.


• Searching for Extraterrestrial life around Exoplanets:
  With Dr. Steve Croft at UC Berkeley's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, I looked for signs of life in transiting exoplanets using the Green Bank Observatory radio dish.


• Spectroscopic Lenses in DESI:
  I developed a pipeline to search the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data for spectroscopic lenses with Dr. John Moustakas.

Highlighted Software & Codes

As part of research I also enjoy developing reusable codes to both reproduce my results and enable similar analyses in the future. All of the code for my projects is publicly available on my GitHub. Here are a few of my most relevant projects:

• OTTER API
  A python package for interacing with the OTTER datasets.


• syncfit A python package for fitting synchrotron radiation dominated spectral energy distributions with commonly used theoretical models. This package utilized multiple Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo tools to optimize the best model fit for the data in a high dimensional parameter space.


• SAGUARO SAGUARO (Searches After Gravitational waves Using ARizona Observatories) is a multimessenger followup program for optical searches for multiwavelength counterparts to gravitational wave events. As part of this project, I work on the Target and Observation Management infrastructure for easily visualizing and triggering followup observations.


• hepfile A software used to store so-called heterogeneous datasets, or data that does not fit into the typical MxN table, in a way that makes reading and writing fast.