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About me

I first started my research endeavors in 2017 at UCLA as an  undergraduate in Professor Paul Hamilton's group, predominantly working on integrating electronics and optimizing atomic beams in an ytterbium MOT experiment. 

After graduating in 2018  with my B.S in physics, I spent my next before graduate school exploring different opportunities before moving forward working with Professor Boerge Hemmering at UC Riverside on a new molecular trap experiment aiming to laser cool and trap AlCl molecules. I gained invaluable experience primarily building and maintaining a second harmonic generation laser system, leading to my co-authoring a paper on AlCl spectroscopy. I then transitioned into UCR as a graduate student where I won the NSF GRFP and received my M.S in physics. While completing my degree, I switched to a new experiment aiming to trap single electrons in a Paul trap for applications in quantum computation, with its feasibility most recently published. 

When I received my masters, I decided to pursue an exciting opportunity at NIST Gaithersburg  working with Dr. Eric Norrgard and Dr. Stephen Eckel on laser cooling and trapping MgF molecules with the goal of using their internal states as an advanced temperature sensor of a blackbody where I worked on the experiment and on experimental simulation of trapping.  When my contract ended, I started working at the Joint Quantum Institute,  starting PhD courses at University of Maryland (UMD).  I worked here building up the main infrastructure for a neutral atom quantum computer.  I left UMD because  I did not receive much support for my PhD, and the Trump funding cuts made it difficult to find another group.  

After several health and hospital scares, pneumonia and seizure in the summer of 2025, I decided I wanted to use my passions for quantum computing, quantum chemistry and quantum many-body systems towards something that was more immediately impactful towards helping human beings. I wanted to work in a more interdisplinary space and actually use the quantum computers for topics I care about rather than simply building them and setting up their experiments. I applied to transfer my PhD to North Carolina A&T because I wanted to be apart of the interdisplinary environment, where I won a fellowship to use IBM's quantum computers for simulating protein-ligand binding systems for future clinical drug design. 

I have since been working at North Carolina A&T State University to complete my doctoral degree as a Graduate Research Scholar with the IBM-HBCU  and the NSF NRT fellowships to build software pipelines which model metalloprotein interactions in the body.