Research Experience

Penn State University, Department of Physics

During my time at Penn State, I did research in an Astrophysics lab dealing with gamma-ray emissions from other galaxies. Specifically, I worked on data analysis regarding the gamma-ray emissions from supermassive black hole regions and modeled the physical processes that were causing these gamma-ray emissions. Throughout this experience, I presented my work at conferences and wrote my undergraduate honors thesis (link is below).

Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Department of Medical Physics

In the summer of 2022, I had the opportunity to participate in a summer fellowship program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where I worked on research regarding the outcomes of Stereotactic Radiosurgery, a form of Radiation Therapy for brain tumors. I created quantitative data from MR images of brain tumors before Stereotactic Radiosurgery treatment and used machine learning to predict whether the brain tumor would react positively to the treatment. I also shadowed a radiation therapy medical physicist and a dosimetrist during this experience.

Stony Brook University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

I am currently participating in my first research rotation at Stony Brook University, where I am building digital models of PET scanners and brain phantoms for use in simulations and image reconstruction.