Research & Projects

I'm currently working on a project with Professor Scott Gaudi at Ohio State to optimize science return from the transiting exoplanet survey of NASA's upcoming Roman Space Telescope. Roman is NASA's next flagship mission that is expected to find ~1500 new exoplanets via microlensing and ~100,000 new exoplanets via transits, greatly expanding the current count of confirmed exoplanets (~5500) and bringing wide-reaching implications for population statistics. 

Over the summer of 2023, I was an intern working for Director Artie Hatzes at the Thüringer Landessternwarte (Thuringian State Observatory) in Tautenburg, Germany. I worked on reviving an under-utilized small optical telescope (the Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope) by debugging its control software and revamping its GUI. I began a new observing program carrying out follow-up observations of exoplanet candidates from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.

In the Spring of 2023, I worked with Dr. Michael Person at MIT to automate steps of the exoplanet follow-up pipeline to better utilize MIT's Wallace Astrophysical Observatory. This work culminated in the creation of an automated target selection software to choose the optimal exoplanet candidate to observe given observational constraints. This project was built off of work done in January 2023, when I worked on follow-up observations of TESS exoplanet candidates at Teide Observatory in the Canary Islands.