University of Toronto

"LUVS is a space telescope with ultraviolet sensitivity and a large field-of-view for following gravitational wave events and other astronomical transients."
- Led the science detector characterization. 
- Led the instrument environmental characterization efforts including radiation qualification at TRIUMF
- Led the development of the system's camera and detector control software.
- Developed the sensitivity and exposure calculators used for mission simulations.

Research Physicist UV Imaging Satellite

” BIT is a Toronto-Princeton-NASA-Durham collaboration to build series of revolutionary balloon-borne spacecrafts designed to probe the mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy”
• Designed and built the spacecraft’s control computers, sensors, and electronic systems using PC/104 standards and custom circuits.
• Contributed to the development of the C/Rust flight code used for hardware control, mission commanding, and ground telemetry.
• Increased the efficiency of the mission’s data communication system by developing a python real-time analysis pipeline that ensures that the data is processed, compressed, and analyzed before being sent to the ground.
• Led the development of the python data reduction pipeline, written to convert raw flight data to science grade data.
• Led the integration of the mission’s data retrieval systems, both in hardware and software.
• Supervised a graduate summer project centered around breaking the degeneracy between the optical performance of the system and correlating confounding variables such as thermal effects. 
• Supervised an undergraduate thesis project centered around developing novel compression algorithms for our mission’s data.
• Presented my research both to fellow physicists as well as the public, as an invited speaker and conference participant.
• Chaired the mission’s standards and outreach committees, leading the internal structure of our multi-institution collaboration.

Research Physicist Balloon-Borne Spacecrafts and Cosmology 

- PHY131/132 Demonstrator: Introduction to Physics 
- PHY407F Instructor: Computational Physics
-PHY224 Teaching Assistant: Experimental Physics

Teaching Professional

Semantic Health

Machine Learning and Data Science PhD Intern

Princeton University

Visiting scholar to provide my expertise on the characterization of astronmical camera systems for the SueprBIT mission.

Visiting Researcher

AMS of UBC Vancouver

Chair of the bi-weekly board of director meetings

” AMS’s mission is: To improve the quality of the educational, social, and personal lives of the students of UBC. ”

•Organized a 1200 student protest along with the first quorum annual general meeting in over 40 years (500+ students) enabling thesociety to pass a directive to oppose proposed changes by the university. This directive is still in effect today.
•Ensured efficient board meetings by enforcing Robert’s Rules of order and providing code/policy rulings and interpretations.
•Streamlined the society’s external operations by reviewing all 36 external policies and implementing the necessary changes.
•Ensured accountability of the executives by reviewing their strategies, goals and deliverables and assigning a monitory bonus.

Chairperson & Speaker of Council

The University of British Columbia

• Reduced the number of thermometers required to monitor CHIME by 91.5% (4096 to 348) by developing a predictive thermal model.
• Enabled the production of sufficiently accurate sky data by designing and implementing a strategy to monitor CHIME’s 4096 antennae and provide an upper limit on the instrument’s systematic error.
• Conclusively proved the impossibility of calibrating CHIME via radio interference signals by investigating and analyzing existing data.
• Designed and implemented the deployment and installation procedure for CHIME’s 4096 amplifiers and 348 thermometers.
• I used numerical programming and statistical methods to complete a variety
of data analysis and instrumentation projects. A detailed document of all the
projects completed for CHIME is available upon request

SURE Fellow at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)

Facilitated the teaching of basic experimental physics and statistics concepts
to first year engineering students while assisting them with carrying out
a variety of experiments.

Teaching Assistant

Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

” The Metzner group specializes in theoretically analyzing and computing properties of quantum materials ”

• Quantum Many Body Theory research with Dr. Andreas Schnyder.
• Proved the ability to increase the strength of a magnetic field applied to a topological material by 200% by generalizing the conceptof strain induced pseudo-magnetism, thus indicating potential application in quantum computation.
• Presented my scientific findings as an invited speaker at the prestigiousAlbert Einstein Institutein Potsdam and the undergraduateresearch conference at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart.
• I used a combination of numerical programming and analytics to research
defect induced flat-bands in topological superconductors and semimetals.
The main focus being triaxial strain induced pseudo magnetic fields and Landau
Levels in finite lattices. For more information detailed notes and slides
are available upon request

Junior Researcher

• Provide support, advice and programming for the residence community
• Perform a variety of hospitality related administrative duties
• Enforce residence and hospitality contract rules ensuring no residents violate
the contract

Residence Advisor

Tasktop

”Tasktop is a value stream management solution for software organizations, that connects development and operation tools”

• Optimized the solution development process by automating a variety of tasks, such as, eliminating the need for a script specialist.
• Increased the synchronization speed of the ”Tasktop Sync” product by developing a custom feature known as the reconciler.
•Designed and developed custom software solutions for Tasktop’s flagship clients, such as NASA and National Bank of Canada
• Designed, developed and tested a variety of applications, plug-ins & tools
to improve application life management integration for teams of developers.
• Tested the limits of a large variety of application life-cycle management
applications and tools.

Junior Solutions Engineer

” AMS’s mission is: To improve the quality of the educational, social, and personal lives of the students of UBC. ”

•Organized a 1200 student protest along with the first quorum annual general meeting in over 40 years (500+ students) enabling the society to pass a directive to oppose proposed changes by the university. This directive is still in effect today.
•Ensured efficient board meetings by enforcing Robert’s Rules of order and providing code/policy rulings and interpretations.
•Streamlined the society’s external operations by reviewing all 36 external policies and implementing the necessary changes.
•Ensured accountability of the executives by reviewing their strategies, goals, and deliverables and assigning a monitory bonus.

Board Member and Chair of University and External Relations

Science Undergraduate Society of UBC Vancouver

”The Science Undergraduate Society aims to promote the academic, physical, and social well-being of UBC Science students”

•Founded the Science Careers Month, an annual conference that provides science students with broad exposure to potential careers.
•Streamlined SUS sponsorship process by creating a variety of sponsorship packages, securing new major sponsors such as Red Bull.
•Increased the involvement of freshmen by founding the ”first year alliance” and organizing a series of freshmen oriented events.

Vice President External and Chair of Corporate Relations

Curious learner always looking to explore new avenues. I am currently an observational cosmology and instrumentation researcher building orbital and sub-orbital scientific experiments to probe the mysteries of the universe with a special focus on Dark Matter and Dark Energy. I am interested in how the rise of machine learning methods will impact the future of observational astrophysics and our day to day life in general.

Always looking to connect with people in any field and learn about their experience and expertise!

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