Scientific Software Developer & Computational Neuroscientist
Applying technical skillset to interdisciplinary research and development with experience spanning non-profits, startups, industry, and academia.
Recent contributions include radio astronomy technosignature research in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) and computational neuroscience research in biomagnetism and neuromodulating brain computer interfaces (BCI).
Further background and education includes cognitive science, computer science, language studies, social engagement, and teaching.
The SETI Institute |
Technosignature Research Associate |
Scientific Software Developer
As Scientific Software Developer, I was tasked with streamlining the analysis pipeline for the 365-day Anti-Solar Point (ASP) survey, alongside being research assistant to technosignature research scientist Dr. Sofia Sheikh. The scaling improvements I made resulted in an overall 98.3% runtime improvement, transforming the analysis pipeline from running for nearly two months to process a single night of data, to near real-time. These changes and my greater system architecture overhaul has enabled the ASP pipeline to be compatible with a variety of surveys and comparative analyses, thus the coining of the Allen Telescope Survey-Agnostic Technosignature (ATSAT) pipeline: SETI Institute’s generalized narrowband technosignature pipeline.
That contract has evolved into my current full-time position as Technosignature Research Associate with the SETI Institute. I continue to develop and maintain the ATSAT pipeline, as well as forks of NBeamAnalysis and Bliss, and conduct analyses and observations for technosignature surveys at Hat Creek Radio Observatory (HCRO).
Sonera | Neuroscience Research Engineer
Computational neuroscience industry research in Biomagnetism — the detection and interpretation of magnetic fields generated by neural activity. Combining signal processing, machine learning, software engineering, and real-time data analysis for commercial applications of non-invasive magnetic sensing.
Sonera’s chip-scale, non-invasive Acoustically Driven Ferromagnetic Resonance (ADFMR) technology enables ubiquitous magnetometer sensing in real-world un-shielded (ambient) conditions. Our neuroscience research with magnetometers at Sonera includes neuro-motor gesture detection, silent speech classification, eye-tracking, muscle fatigue characterization, and magnetoencephalography (MEG).
Teledyne Intelligent Systems Laboratory |
Neuroscience Research Engineer
Software and electrical engineering for Brain Machine Interface Research to improve sleep quality via transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) neuro-modulating wearable — including clinical trials — as well as Neuroscience research and analysis for a multi-insititutional DARPA project to improve learning via Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS).
Jadu AR | Backend Developer
In between Jadu’s Seed and Series A stage, I worked as a Unity Developer and Dev/Ops Engineer overseeing the backend for the crypto-assets and developing internal package bridges for Jadu in its stage as a mobile iOS game platform for interacting with NFT avatars in Augmented Reality (AR).
Jadu AR has evolved into a multi-genre Augmented Reality platform with applications spanning from gaming to spatially-based AI, through demonstrated hardware mastery in holograms, NFTs, mobile applications, and headset technology and creative collaborations with artists including Michael Bay, Snoop Dogg, Grimes, and more.
Berkeley SETI Research Center | Breakthrough Listen |
Research Intern | Engineering Apprentice
As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, I did an undergraduate research apprenticeship with the Berkeley SETI Research Center for which I was a part of the pioneering Breakthrough Listen team to collaborate with the NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
