I received my undergraduate physics degree from Penn State University and became interested in experimental particle physics at the LHC. During my undergraduate studies, I worked on a search for long-lived particles with CMS and a search for QCD instantons with ATLAS. I also wrote an honors thesis on chaos in quantum cosmology.
Here at Columbia, I am involved in research with the ATLAS collaboration. This includes both developing algorithms to better analyze ATLAS data and testing new electronics for the ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeter upgrade.