Hello! I am a first-year PhD student under Dr. Boris Kramer in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego.

I am broadly interested in computational methods for understanding and predicting diverse fluid flows, including methods for modeling, data analysis, and Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) of systems ranging from liquid rockets to the space weather-driving solar atmosphere. In particular, I’m excited to work on data-driven Reduced-Order Models (ROMs) and inverse problems for such systems in future research.

I took interest in these areas during my undergraduate in aerospace engineering at Cal Poly Pomona, where I was lucky enough to intern with NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), as well as take part in a university rocketry project. I was also given the opportunity to work in leadership roles as lead intern for the NASA Heliophysics Division and as a lead/student mentor in my university rocketry project.

During my three-year remote internship with the NASA Goddard Solar Physics Laboratory, I worked under Dr. Nick Arge, Dr. Michael Kirk, and Dr. Daniel da Silva on (i) computational data analysis research for boundary detection with UQ of low density regions in the Sun’s atmosphere, known as coronal holes, using multi-spectral imagery, (ii) simulation analysis and visualization software development for the WSA ensemble model of the corona, and (iii) development of the WSA Dasboard, a visualization website for the WSA model (Slides are available here).

During my one-year remote internship with the NCAR High Altitude Observatory, I worked under Dr. Mike Wiltberger and Dr. Nick Gross on visualization software development for the MAS and GAMERA magnetohydrodynamic (mag…ic for short…) models of the corona, solar wind, and Earth’s magnetosphere (Slides are available here).

During my two-year involvement in the Cal Poly Pomona Liquid Rocket Laboratory, I worked under Dr. Frank Chandler on (i) physics-based surrogate model development for a liquid rocket, including flight dynamics one-way coupled to a time-dependent thermal-fluid network modeling the propulsion system, (ii) application of the model in Monte Carlo simulation-based UQ and open-loop control design for optimal peak altitude in flight, and (iii) statistical data analysis of our (successful!) liquid rocket engine tests.

I’d be glad to learn about your interests, so please feel free to reach out! My email and LinkedIn are under the above Follow button.

Upcoming Events

June 23-27, 2025 I will be attending the Solar Heliospheric and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE) workshop in Charleston, South Carolina, where I will present our work on data analysis and uncertainty quantification for coronal hole boundary detection in multi-spectral solar imagery.

Recent News

November 19-20, 2024 I attended the Workshop on Fusion Energy and Pulsed Power here at UC San Diego, where I learned about numerical models for plasmas in nuclear fusion devices and across astrophysics. It’s been incredibly interesting, both in this workshop and through seminars and courses on campus, to learn about the differences between the fusion, astrophysics, and heliophysics communities despite their shared study of plasmas.

October 6-8, 2024 It was a great experience to participate in the NextProf Pathfinder workshop at Georgia Tech, where I was given advice by so many nice students and mentors, learned about the variety of careers in academia, and learned about the even greater variety of winding and rewarding paths towards them.

September 23, 2024 I moved to UC San Diego (only a few hours drive) to pursue a PhD!

September 16-20, 2024 I had the great opportunity to attend the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) International Summer School in Boltenhagen, Germany, where I learned about theory, algorithms, and applications of data assimilation, the framework for integrating data and time-dependent models to make the best predictions possible. I presented a poster on how our coronal hole detection work could contribute to a data assimilation framework and I also got to meet many great members of the UC San Diego Chaos, Computation, Analysis and Optimization (CaCAO) group there!

September 9-13, 2024 I attended the Model Reduction and Surrogate Modeling (MORe) conference here at UC San Diego, where I was exposed to the amazing diversity of mathematics, applications, and perspectives throughout the ROM research community.

June 10-14, 2024 It was a great experience to participate in the SHIELD Summer School in Plasma Processes at the Edge of the Solar System at Boston University, where I learned about magnetohydrodynamic theory, deep space measurements of the solar wind’s state, the fundamental processes of turbulence and magnetic reconnection that determine this state, and finally how the microscopic process of charge exchange gives us global imagery of the heliosphere, the shield surrounding our home in space.

May 20-23, 2024 I attended the Space Weather with Quantified Uncertainties (SWQU) User Meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where I learned about data-assimilative numerical models for flows over the solar surface, the structure of the solar atmosphere, and the dynamics of the solar wind.

December 10-15, 2023 It was great to attend the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California (with over 24,000 people in attendance!), where I presented a poster on our coronal hole detection work.