About me

I am a fifth year Ph.D Candidate a the University of California Santa Cruz working with Professor Natalie Batalha. My research interests are exoplanet demographics and planet formation and evolution.

I earned my Bachelors degree from the University of Texas at Austin. While there I worked with Dr. Andrew Vanderburg on detecting planet candidates in K2 data with convolutional neural networks.

Research

  • Kepler Occurrence Rates

    A simple methodology to compute occurrence rates for Kepler data. We computed "benchmark" occurrence measurements, including the hot Jupiter occurrence rate, the radius distribution, and the period distribution.

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    ExoIV Poster (2022)

    Occurrence Products

    Example Code

  • Radius Cliff

    We use population synthesis techniques to test if the observed (and intrinsic) radius cliff (3-4Re) can be reporoduced my atmospheric mass loss alone.

    ERES 2023 Poster

  • Convolutional Neural Networks

    Exoplanet identification is a time-consuming and imperfect process. Using machine learning speeds up this process greatly. I built a convolutional neural network Astronet-K2 to identify planet candidates in K2 data. It successfully identified 2 planet candidates that were further confirmed.

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CV & Publications

Curriculum Vitae (updated November 2023)

Publications: NASA ADS

Press and Media

My 2019 paper recieved a bit of media attention. I got to be interviewed for NPR and be the star of a Google ad!

Selected Articles