CS PhD Student @ CMU
About
I am a second year PhD student studying computer graphics at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Ioannis Gkioulekas and supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Previously, I received my BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Dartmouth College, where I was fortunate to work with Wojciech Jarosz, Colin Meyer, and Bo Zhu.
My final project for my Rendering Algorithms class (Fall 2021) at Dartmouth won first place in the student rendering competition. My partner and I were honored to win NVIDIA graphics cards and to be the first undergraduate students to ever win the competition. View the project report here.
For my senior thesis at Dartmouth, I studied light transport through glacier snow/ice, which is important for understanding climate feedbacks and for improving remote sensing of snow. I developed a model which used Monte Carlo ray tracing to compute snow optical properties and simulate the spectral albedo of snowpacks. The model accounted for complex snow microstructure by incorporating micro-CT data from real snow, and it explored the use of non-exponential free-flight distributions for modeling light transport through snow.
For the final project of my Physical Simulation class at Dartmouth, my partner and I implemented rigid body coupling with SPH fluid.
For my internship project at MongoDB, I added support for SDAM (Server Discovery and Monitoring) events in the PHP Driver. I allowed applications to register an SDAM event subscriber and listen to SDAM events, which required writing new API classes, unit tests, and documentation.
