I graduated from the University of Minnesota in April 206, defending my Ph.D. on Active Galactic Nuclei Jets & Complex Gas Environments: Simulations and Surrogate Models. I worked with Tom Jones at UMN and Hui Li at LANL using the WOMBAT and Athena++ MHD codes to study AGN jet - ICM interactions. I'm also involved in the development of WisdomWombat, the next generation of the code, and WiserWombat, the first ML integration into the code. This integration is the development of partial surrogate models to take the computational load off of regions of the simulation box that are not dynamically complex or interesting, such as periphery regions around the jet. I held a joint GRA position at LANL working on jet studies as part of my dissertation research in 2024-2025, and was an intern at their Parallel Computing Summer School in 2023. I'm heavily involved in public outreach and became an astrobites author in 2024.

I'm originally from CT and attended Wellesley College for my bachelor's in astrophysics with a minor in computer science. There, I had a number of research positions ranging from stellar variability and supernova (MIT) to exoplanets (Wellesley) to quasars (Middlebury) to particle accelerators (LBNL). I was also part of the Shakespeare Society and worked as a book conservation assistant in the library.