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Education
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2024-Present Geography PhD Student
University of California, Los Angeles, CA -
2022 BS Mathematical and Computational Biology
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
Experience
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2023-2024 Research Technologist
Imaging Spectroscopy Group, NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA -
2022-2023 Software Engineer
Schmidt Academy for Software Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA -
2021-2022 AI Scholars Instructor
Inspirit AI -
2021 Payload Intern
Planet Labs -
2021 Systems & Analysis Technical Assistant
MIT Lincoln Laboratory -
2018-2020 Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Intern
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory -
2020 NASA DEVELOP Team Member
Science Systems & Applications Inc.
Honors and Awards
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2025-2026 - UCLA Graduate Research Mentor Fellowship
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2024-2025 - UCLA Urban Humanities Certificate
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2024 - NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
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2022 - Mindlin Prize for Innovative Ideas in Science
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2021 - USGIF Undergraduate Scholarship
Academic Interests
- Imaging spectroscopy
- Urban heat islands (UHIs)
- Land cover/land use mapping
- Urban carbon emissions
- Wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires
Other Interests
- Environmental law and policy
- Photography
- Backpacking
- Cooking