- Postdoctoral Research : 2004 - present
MiniBooNE Experiment, Fermi National Laboratory
VLADD Experiment, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- VLAnd extra Dimensions Detector
- Designing and proposing experiment which will be used as a demonstration of a technique which will allow the measurement of "invisible" decays of orthopositronium at a level of 10^-10
- Graduate Research : 1999 - 2004
Collider Detector Experiment, Fermi National Laboratory
- Solenoidal detector located in a $p \overline p$ collider, operating at
$\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV
- Extensive hardware experience on Calorimeter system. Responsibilities include development of simulation software, commissioning and debugging of high speed digital clustering electronics boards, development of Java-oriented testing packages and C++ validation packages, continual maintenance of clustering electronics
- Commissioned and debugged custom parallel processor electronics for 20 KHz detector trigger used during data taking
- Designed, implemented, and validated electron and photon triggers used during data taking
- Validated secondary vertex finding algorithm through efficiency studies
- Measured top quark tagging efficiency using Monte Carlo simulations
- Analysis of top-antitop cross section using the secondary vertex tagging algorithm
- Examined and validated background Monte Carlo models used in the top cross section
- Improved top cross section through optimization studies
- Undergraduate Research : 1998 - 1999
E865, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Fixed target experiment, searching for rare Kaon decays, under direction of Dr. Mike Zeller and Dr. Julia Thompson
- Independent study of Cerenkov radiation and detection using $Cs_{137}$ source and photomultiplier tubes.
Examined ways to increase efficiency of Cerenkov counters at E865. Presented Halliday Resnick Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research for this study.
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