EXPERIENCE

Research Experience

Aug 2022 – May 2024
Social Dynamics and Well-Being Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Advisor: Dr. Munmun De Choudhury

  • Applied machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing to address research questions at the intersection of social media and mental health.

Aug 2021 – May 2022
Space Systems Design Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Advisor: Dr. Joseph Homer Saleh

  • Conducted reliability analysis of CubeSat subsystems using Kaplan-Meier curves and time-to-failure distributions.

Aug 2018 – May 2020
High-Power Electric Propulsion Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Advisor: Dr. Mitchell L.R. Walker

  • Conducted 1D simulations of Hall-effect thrusters to examing performance impact of elongated ionization chambers.

May 2017 – Aug 2018
High-Power Electric Propulsion Laboratory
Undergraduate Research Assistant
School of Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Advisor: Dr. Mitchell L.R. Walker

  • Supported laboratory testing of electric propulsion devices for external customers.

Industry Experience

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021
Busek Space Propulsion and Systems, Natick, MA
Research and Development Engineer
Electric Propulsion Group
Mentor(s): Surjeet Paintal, Samual Sawyer

  • Supported laboratory testing and data acquisition of electric propulsion (EP) devices for spaceflight qualification
  • Developed a custom LabVIEW applications to automate the acquisition Hall-effect thruster magnetic field profiles and other plasma diagnostics

May 2020 – Aug 2020
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Electric Propulsion Graduate Intern
Electric Propulsion Group
Mentor(s): Dr. Robert Lobbia

  • Developed an uncertainty analysis procedure for EP thrust stands using linear regression and prediction intervals

May – Aug 2018, 2019
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Electric Propulsion Intern (x2)
Electric Propulsion Group
Mentor(s): Dr. Robert Lobbia

  • Built a custom LabVIEW application for JPL’s primary EP testing facility that synchronized the control and data acquisition of 20 devices improving the latency and sampling rate by 1 and 3 orders of magnitude, respectively