About Me

I'm interested in observational cosmology. As an undergraduate at University fo Minnesota I was involved in research on the Cosmic Microwave Background and strong gravitational lensing. I'm currently a fifth year graduate student working with Eric Gawiser at Rutgers University. I'm a member of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, and am working on photometric redshifts and galaxy clustering and weak lensing. I am currently a member of the DESC Collaboration Council and a co-chair of the DESC Speakers Bureau.

My Research

My current work focuses on quantifying expected bias related to photometric redshift estimation in cosmological parameter estimates with upcoming LSST data. I am also working on various methods to mitigate this bias.

  • Tomographic Binning

    We investigate and optimize the tomographic binning strategy for 3x2pt analysis with LSST.

    This is a published paper!

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  • Training Sample Augmentation

    We improve photometric redshift estimation by augmenting the training sample with simulated galaxies.

    This is a published paper!

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  • n(z) bias

    We are currently using the improved tomographic binning strategy and training augmentation from my first two projects to quantify and improve photometric redshift related bias in cosmological parameters.

    This is a work in progress!

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My Hobbies

I like bouldering, hiking, baking, reading and making cocktails. I thru hiked the Appalachian Trail, feel free to ask me about bear stories!

Cats!

I have 2 cats: Schrodinger and Obsidian! They are very cute, so here are some pictures of them!