Campus Directory

Division Physical & Biological Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Physics Department

Title Graduate Student Researcher

Graduate Major Experimental Particle Physics

Affiliation Graduate

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP)

Primary Office Location Nat Sci 2 Main Building
308

Mail Stop Physics Department

Biography, Education and Training

I am from Columbus, Ohio and moved to Santa Cruz in 2021. I received Bachelors' degrees in Mathematics and Physics from the Ohio State University in 2021. I have been working on ATLAS since 2019. In my free time I enjoy recreating in nature, primarily through rock climbing, skiing, cycling, and surfing.

Research Interests

I am primarily interested in how fundamental particles interact at the highest accessible energy scales. At the current moment this is from studying the proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS Experiment delivered by Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. In particular, the LHC produces copious amounts of collimated strongly-interacting particles called jets. These act as proxies for elementary quarks and gluons and understanding them is critical for the physics program at the LHC. My work since I joined in 2019 has focused on using machine learning techniques to both better identify events with jets of interest, such as production of highly boosted Higgs Bosons, as well as reducing the information saved from these events to improve the overall amount of events to be saved. I have also contributed to the Pixel detector for the ATLAS Inner Tracker Upgrade for the High-Luminosity LHC which will begin taking the majority of LHC data in 2029.