Experience

As a nuclear engineer, I spent most of my career at various Department of Energy laboratories, first as an intern and finally as a staff scientist. I recently transitioned to private industry work with an exciting opportunity at Cruise. The work is surprisingly similar, and I still play my part as the above average computer programmer with a strong background in physics. 

Cruise

Staff Algorithm Engineer | June 2022 - Present 

• Research and development of algorithms to improve performance of range sensors, leveraging physics, signal processing and machine learning techniques.

• Led the development of in-house calibration and characterization stations, along with associated analysis tools.

• Developed the software (Python) framework to enable rapid development of new processing pipelines.

• Work in cross-functional capacity to enable on-device deployment through optimizations and approximations.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Staff Scientist | November 2020 - June 2022

• Lead developer on Gamma Designer, suite of tools of radiation detection data analysis.

• Research in radiation detection, identification and characterization with application of classical machine learning technique (Random Forest, Support Vector Machines).

• Modeling and synthetic data generation of nuclear experiments and radiation detection.

Postdoctoral Researcher | October 2017 - October 2020

• Principal investigator for Benchmarking Algorithm for RadioNuclide Identification (BARNI),an open-source radionuclide identification tool.

• Lead developer on Gamma Designer, suite of tools of radiation detection data analysis.

• Development and testing of radionuclide detection and identification algorithms.

• Modeling and experimental support for fission cross-sections experiments using time-projected chamber.

Sandia National Laboratory 

Sandia Graduate Fellow | March 2015 - September 2017

• Developed a methodology to link fission chain dynamics to the measured times between correlated gamma-rays and fast neutrons for the purpose of characterizing assemblies of moderated and/or reflected fissile material.

•  3D radiation imaging of gamma-neutron sources, including reconstruction via stochastic origin ensemble.

• Active interrogation D-T generator experiments

•  Development of user-friendly software for waveform analysis, including pulse shape discrimination and timing

• Time encoded imaging for far field detection

• Development on easy to use data acquisition system for CAEN and Struck digitizers

Institute of Transuranium Elements 

Nuclear Forensic Graduate Fellow | May 2013 - September 2013 

• Work with alongside European Union's nuclear chemist on extending uncertainty analysis for forensic chronometry. 

• Calculate age dating uncertainties for Pu and U age dating using Monte Carlo methods for

error propagation.