About

Hi there! I am a space physicist working at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow.

Broadly, my research is currently focused on atmospheric particle precipitation. At the lower energy end, this precipitation creates beautiful displays of the aurora near the northern and southern poles. At the higher energy end, however, these particles can be hazardous to humans and our technology in space and atmosphere (think aviation).

I study particle precipitation by analyzing particle and image data gathered by auroral all-sky imagers, CubeSats orbiting in low Earth orbit, and other satellite missions such as NASA’s Van Allen Probes and Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. I use this data, together with models, to better understand nature given our limited and sparse observations. See the Publications section to read more about my scientific work.

I’ve recently developed a passion for developing software libraries that enable painless and accurate data analysis and discovery. Many space physics data sets do not come with vetted analysis software, thus researchers are often forced to recreate their own analysis software—possibly introducing bugs that affect their scientific results. With this goal in mind, my first project is aurora-asi-lib that is designed to “Easily download, plot, animate, and analyze auroral all sky imager (ASI) data.” This library will soon be incorporated into AuroraX where it will become a part of a larger end-to-end aurora analysis toolkit. See the Research section that has more details about my current research projects and interests.

Exercise and data analysis

On the topic of data analysis, here is a global heatmap showing where I’ve explored.

Interactive Heatmap

This program was used to generate this map.

Running personal records (PRs)