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. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: baryonic acoustic oscillations, 21 cm cosmology, the Sunyaev Zeldovich effect, epoch of reionization, dark matter, Lyman alpha emitters, formation of large scale structure, the formation an evolution of super massive black holes.

Currently I am working with the University of Washington's N-Body group on simulations. I am curious to explore who modified dark matter halos may better match observations and the evolution of galaxies and their halos.

I have also been interested in the exciting field of radio interferometry. In order to understand the cosmology of the Universe it is necessary to understand the distribution of matter on the largest of scales and because most matter in the visible Universe is hydrogen, I study hydrogen. Several of the research projects I am working on are based on HI radio data. I am involved with the MWA project and I am looking at possible traces of large scale structure in the data from the ALFALFA survey.

You may reach me by email at .washington.edu