My Research

Welcome to my research page. I started researching with Dr. Ananya Sen Gupta during my undergrad. As an undergraduate researcher I worked on several projects and gained insight into using MATLAB as a signal processing tool, as well as revising research documents. My work included breaking down a complex algorithm used to analyze oil weathering from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I continued my education and focused on signal processing for chemicals contained in milk samples, working alongside the FDA. I learned a number of techniques: using peak energies to quantify a signal in order to implement a comparison algorithm, finding items relative to one another, Principal Component Analysis, and K-Means Clustering. The goal of this research was to find analytes appearing across multiple samples that may need to be targeted. My current research pivoted to a new domain in space physics. I now help scientists in heliophysics who analyze phenomena like space weather, working to give them the most reliable data possible. To study these phenomena, magnetometers are flown into space. The spacecraft they are mounted on has its own magnetic field, which can corrupt the measurement. I enjoy the interdisciplinary work that I get to be a part of, and I hope to keep learning about the complexities of how information evolves in complicated systems — such as the human body, and specifically the brain.