Holy Cross—Liberal Arts

As an undergraduate, I majored in physics at the College of the Holy Cross, a four-year Jesuit liberal arts college. As a first-year student at Holy Cross, I played the alto saxophone in the Goodtime Marching Band. In the spring, I shifted to performing for the Crusader Pep Band. In my sophomore year, I tutored subjects of math, science, and others at the Nativity School of Worcester as part of the Student Programs for Urban Development. I valued motivating and encouraging others to try their best in this memorable service experience.

As a rising junior and senior, I performed summer research at Holy Cross through the Weiss summer research program. My first project was engineering a datalogging device that synchronized data collected by a telescope array. This device used an Arduino microcontroller to replace an old Basic STAMP microcontroller for improved speed and reliability. See my portfolio for more details on this technology. Later, I worked on simulating the viewing solid angle of the telescopes in the array. Finally, I modeled the diurnal variance in detected muon flux and determined whether the telescopes performed inconsistently. I modeled the diurnal variance using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). I created data processing software using Python and then improved it so that modeling occurred automatically after data processing. Operating these sensitive electronics with real-time data analysis and hardware adjustment inspired me to pursue computer science.

University of New Haven

Currently, I am pursuing a M.S. in computer science at the University of New Haven.