About Me
Noi non potemo aver perfetta vita senza amici
I attended the Pennsylvania State University as an undergraduate where I studied mathematics and astronomy and astrophysics in the Eberly College of Science and Schreyer Honors College. I did my undergraduate honors thesis in Penn State's Center for Gravitational Wave Physics; it involved a study of the performance of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. I picked up a master's degree from Stanford University in a program called Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics with a concentration in statistics. While there, I worked at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. I've also worked at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
I was born and raised in the 36th least-sunny, 9th rainiest, and 13th snowiest city in the continental US -- Erie, Pennsylvania -- where I attended McDowell High School. After growing up with this I'm constantly marveling at the beautiful weather here in California.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. Life's been good to me so far...