Graduate work

Graduate Work

  • Successfully defended my PhD thesis in May 2012 and officially graduated from Rutgers University with a PhD in physics in October 2012.
  • Relocated to work for the Telescope Array collaboration at the University of Utah while completing the PhD work at Rutgers University remotely in 2010.
  • Conducted undergraduate recitations, supervised lab work, and graded homework and quizzes in 2008.
  • Operated detectors of the Telescope Array (TA) experiment.
  • Parsed raw data from the Telescope Array surface detector.
  • Contributed to Monte-Carlo simulation of the Telescope Array surface detector.
  • Developed data selection criteria.
  • Extracted physical results from data.
  • Finalized the undergraduate analysis of the High Resolution Fly’s Eye Experiment.
  • Assisted with building the low energy extension prototype for the TA experiment and helped with decommissioning the High Resolution Fly’s Eye Experiment on Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.