I earned my undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Colorado Boulder, where I conducted research in the Experimental Nuclear Physics Group and completed an honors thesis titled “sPHENIX Electromagnetic Calorimeter Detector Performance During RHIC Run-24.” I am now pursuing a Ph.D. in high-energy experimental nuclear physics with a focus on quantum chromodynamics. More specifically, I am interested in the fundamental state and time evolution of the quark gluon plasma (QGP), which is an extremely hot and dense state of matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and examined using natural probes that arise in the earliest stages of these collisions. I am also interested in the advancement of computational techniques in the field, including the integration of machine learning and artificial intelligence to help analyze complex data produced in these collisions. I love to thrift! Almost everything I own is secondhand.