I am an astronomy graduate student at the University of Washington. I did my undergraduate work in physics and astronomy at the University of Texas. I have had a diverse exposure to research. At Texas I worked with the Hetdex group studying dark energy. I spent my fair share of nights at the McDonald observatory using a prototype IFU for the project and analyzed the data for signatures of high redshift Lyman alpha emitting galaxies. I am broadly interested in cosmology, extragalactic astronomy, and astrophysics. Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to: baryonic acoustic oscillations, 21 cm cosmology, the Sunyaev Zeldovich effect, epoch of reionization, dark energy, dark matter, Lyman alpha emitters, formation of large scale structure, and black holes.

Currently I am working on several research projects and taking classes. I am working on mass mapping of resolved galaxies using a PCA and filtering technique to extract spatial information about the underlying stellar populations using photometric data from SDSS observations. Several of the research projects I am working on are based on HI radio data. I am getting involved with the MWA project. I am looking at possible traces of large scale structure in the data from the ALFALFA survey. I am working on a novel technique for detecting weak gravitational lensing.