Education:
The Pennsylvania State University: Ph.D, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2016
University of California, Berkeley: B.A., Physics & Astrophysics, 2009
City College of San Francisco: A.A., Chinese (Mandarin), 2006
Appointments:
University of Pennsylvania: NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow
Pennsylvania State University Astrophysics Department: Graduate Researcher
UC Berkeley Astronomy Department: Departmental Researcher
UC Berkeley Space Science Laboratory: Undergraduate Researcher
UC Berkeley Physics Department: Departmental Research Scholar
City College of San Francisco: Volunteer Mathematics Tutor
Awards & Honors:
NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship
Pennsylvania State University Downsbrough Graduate Fellowship
Pennsylvania State University Brumbach Fellowship
Pennsylvania State University Bunton-Waller Fellowship
Pennsylvania State University Braddock-Roberts Fellowship
Sigma-Xi Grant-in-Aid Award
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
NASA Group Achievement Award for the SIM Planet Finding Capability Study Team
UC Berkeley Physics Undergraduate Research Scholarship
City College of San Francisco Kerkhof Memorial Mathematics Scholarship
City College of San Francisco Honors Certificate
Current Collaborations:
HPF: The Habitable-Zone Planet Finder, a near-infrared high resolution spectrograph on the 10-meter Hobby Eberly Telescope.
NEID: The Extreme Precision Doppler Spectrometer, an ultra-stable high resolution Doppler spectrometer for the 3.5-meter WIYN telescope.
MINERVA-red: A single-mode fiber-fed near, near-infrared spectrometer on a commercial 0.7-meter commercial telescope.
KPF: The Keck Planet Finder, a stabilized Doppler spectrometer for the 10-meter Keck Telescope.
Past Collaborations:
APOGEE: The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, an H-band high resolution spectrograph part of SDSS III
TEDI: The TripleSpec Exoplanet Discovery Instrument, an IR radial velocity instrument on the Palomar 200”.
SIM: The Space Interferometer Mission.
TATOOINE: The Attempt To Observe Outer-planets In Non-single-stellar Environments.
Memberships to Professional Societies:
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
SPIE – The International Society for Optics and Photonics
The Optical Society (OSA)
American Astronomical Society
San Francisco Robotics Society of America