Introduction

I have a passion for research and have sought it out whenever possible. As a physics student, I have worked on lab reports, design documents, and research papers for my coursework. As part of my courses, I have gained experience in hands-on and computational physics, math, and software development. From my research experience, I have expanded on these skills to include high performance computing, scanning electron microscopy, and data science.

Since 2021, I have been working on research outside of courses with Dr. Mohammad Tawhid. We have applied swarm algorithms to various problems. We started with feature selection of AI models for disease detection, then moved to solving engineering and thermodynamics problems. I have given a talk on my work on AI and presented it at several conferences.

I have completed a directed studies project using a scanning electron microscope on semiconductor, solar cell, and nanostructure samples. I am currently in a directed studies in Statistical Mechanics, which includes a final project simulating the effects of temperature changes on a ferromagnet. I have also been improving image reconstruction for a laser CT scanner. I implemented a filtered back projection algorithm to improve the quality of the reconstructed images. It has been well received and was excellent for explaining tomographic reconstruction.