About Me

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I am a first-year PhD student at Stony Brook University, studying medical physics in the Biomedical Engineering Department. My current research focuses on diffusion-based denoising for breast imaging applications.

I researched for a year at the New York Proton Center, working with Dr. Minglei Kang on proton FLASH. During this time, I worked on FLASH in vivo dosimetry and also developed and implemented a toolkit to plan Bragg peak FLASH deliveries directly in the Eclipse treatment planning system.

I graduated from MIT with a B.Sc. in Nuclear Science and Engineering in 2023. While at MIT, I served as the president of Random Hall, the Association of Student Activities, and the Secular Society of MIT. I also was the Projection Director of the MIT Lecture Series Committee for three years, and the treasurer of DormCon.

I also conducted research with the Radiation Oncology Research Lab at the Massachusetts General Hospital, working with Dr. Gregory Sharp, Dr. Lena Nenoff, and Mislav Bobić on QA of deformable image registration for adaptive proton therapy.