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Education

  • 2024-Present
    Geography PhD Student
    University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2022
    BS Mathematical and Computational Biology
    Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA

Experience

  • 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

  • 2025-2026
    • UCLA Graduate Research Mentor Fellowship
  • 2024-2025
    • UCLA Urban Humanities Certificate
  • 2024
    • NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
  • 2022
    • Mindlin Prize for Innovative Ideas in Science
  • 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