The primary motivation of my research is to “do cool stuff.” Experimental physics is vast and contains an endless supply of fascinating problems in need of creative solutions. So I’ve done a bunch of cool stuff over the years: optical lightning sensing, thermal modeling, heavy quarkonium spectroscopy, infrared sky imaging, directional dark matter searches, gaseous detector development, accelerator conditions monitoring, lepton universality violation searches, and more. All of this cool stuff felt like the coolest stuff I could be doing at the time.

The cool stuff I’m doing now includes advanced gaseous detector development. My main ambition is to combine state-of-the-art electronics, microfabrication, and machine learning techniques to develop gaseous time projection chamber readout technology that approaches physical limits. I am also heavily involved in the Belle II experiment, both in flavor physics analysis and in detector upgrades.

I am always looking for talented and motivated grad students who like to do cool stuff; if you think you might be interested, let’s chat!