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Education

2025–Present
PhD, Physics

University of Toronto and Vector Institute
2023–2025
MSc, Physics

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2019–2023
B.S., Computational Physics
B.A., Applied Mathematics & Philosophy

Rice University

Experience

2025–Present
Doctoral Researcher

Berkeley Lab

Building foundation models for scientific point clouds/graphs for High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Molecular Dynamics at NERSC.
Jun 2024–Aug 2026
AI for (Geo)Physics Research Intern

ExxonMobil, Houston, TX

Researcher in AI applications for Geophysics. Generative Models with Physical Priors and Constraints for Imaging large 3D volumes with Seismic. Seismic Anomaly Detection.
2018–2023
Research Geophysics & Software Intern

Petroleum GeoServices

ML methods for first break picking, seismic anomaly detection, cloud migration.

Awards

2026 NSERC Doctoral Canadian Graduate Research Scholarship (CGRS D)
2025 University of Toronto Connaught International Fellow
2024 1st Place Higgs Uncertainty Challenge @ NeurIPS, CERN
2023 3-Year UIUC Graduate College Fellowship
2016 Eagle Scout

Teaching

2026 TA and Lecturer, University of Toronto - Physics 2108/2109 “The Physics of Machine Learning”
2025 TA, University of Toronto - Physics 252 “Thermal Physics”
2024 TA, UIUC - Physics 413 “Optics Lab”

Publications & Talks

All papers, invited talks, and posters can be found on the research page.

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