About Me

I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA working with Prof. David Paige. My primary interest is in the application of statistics and machine learning to large existing datasets for the exploration of:

  1. Planetary Surfaces
  2. Their evolution
  3. Implications for the distribution of ices

On the NASA LRO Diviner team I study Lunar regolith and rock thermophysics. I also work on the KPLO Gamma Ray Spectrometer team to model the hydrogen distribution on the Lunar surface. More recently, I have been working with the Mars Science team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to map the extent of Martian south polar ice sublimation features.

Prior to this, I worked as a Staff Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton, providing geoscience and machine learning support to their Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) and Aerospace & GPS accounts. My undergraduate degree is in Statistics with a minor in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA.