Research Experience

This semester I am working as an undergraduate researcher under Professor David Spencer, head of the Space Flight Projects Laboratory. In this position I am assisting with the Aerodynamic Deorbit Experiment, a mission demonstrating a deployable drag-sail device that could eventually be used to ensure satellites can de-orbit in an efficient time post-mission-success.
My specific tasks for this position include writing Flight Software in C using Ubuntu. The Flight Software I am speifically generating includes Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data acquisition and communications protocol between various spacecraft components and the ground stations.

Over Fall 2018 Semester, I worked as an undergraduate researcher under Professor Rafael Lang, head of the Dark Matters Lab. In this position I assisted with data analysis from the XENON Detector in Italy. I worked with a group of 4 other undergraduates to develop python scripts in Jupyterlabs. These python scripts sorted, cleaned, and organized the data and then evaluated it for specific trends based on a variety of parameters that could be indicate dark matter collision events.