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Peer-reviewed papers, my Ph.D. thesis, selected talks, and honors. My name is bolded in each author list. The complete, canonical record lives on INSPIRE-HEP.

Ph.D. Thesis · MIT · 2025

Particles Inside Particles

The Flow of Energy in Quarks, Gluons, and Jets. My doctoral thesis, advised by Jesse Thaler, builds the analytic and probabilistic foundations of energy-correlator observables and the mathematics behind parton-shower simulation — and connects them to real collider data.

Papers & preprints

Publications

Selected talks

Talks & seminars

Classroom

Teaching Assistant Roles

  • 2020 — 2025
    MIT
    EM, QFT, EFT, SUSY, GR, & string theory
  • 2017 — 2019
    UC Santa Barbara
    quantum & classical mechanics, electromagnetism, stat mech
  • 2014 — 2015
    CU Denver
    Calculus III
Community

Outreach

  • 2020 — 2025
    Judge, USA Young Physicists' Tournament
    International middle- & high-school teams
  • 2022
    Grader & coaching team, USA Physics Olympiad
  • 2020 — 2022
    MIT graduate admissions
    Founding member, Graduates Advising Graduate Admissions
  • 2018
    Founder, Feynman Club
    UC Santa Barbara
Recognition

Honors & Awards

  • 2020
    Finalist, Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship
    For New Americans
  • 2019 — 2020
    MIT Graduate Fellowship
  • 2019
    B.S. with highest honors & distinction
    UC Santa Barbara
  • 2019
    Arnold Nordsieck Award
    Exceptional research promise
  • 2017
    Roig Summer Research Fellowship
  • 2017 — 2019
    UCSB Regents Scholarship