About Me

I am a graduate student at the University of Arizona as a University Fellow and NSF Graduate Fellow. I work on the MagAO-X extreme adaptive optics instrument, capable of directly imaging planets around other stars. My research interests lie in novel adaptive optics techniques, from predictive control, ground based control, and now high performance calibrations.

Publications and Presentations

Want to check out my most recent work? I keep a list of my public appearances here so you don't have to work Google too hard.

Publications Presentations

Computational Photography Blogs

One of the last classes I took in undergrad was an image processing lecture. Though these were class projects and heavily guided, they ended up extremely interesting! Here I've archived those projects, whose techniques are universally useful.

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Research Projects

Listed below are some of the research projects I've worked on.

Extreme AO with MagAO-X

Using incoherent sparkles to calibrate pyramid WFS.

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Ground Layer AO on 'imaka

Comparing performance across four wavelengths to show GLAO performance into the blue.

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Wind profiling with AO telemetry

Using GLAO look telemetry to predict wind direction, speed, and height

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Predictive control on Keck II

Working with Empirically orthogonal Functions to implement predictive AO control on Keck.

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