Biography

I am a Metropolis Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory studying astrophysical plasmas using exascale GPU-based resources. My work at Los Alamos is currently focused on developing AthenaPK, an exascale magnetohydrodynamics code, and Parthenon, the adaptive mesh refinement framework that powers AthenaPK. With AthenaPK, I run simulations of astrophysical jets in various scenarios on Frontier, the world’s first exascale supercomputer.

My computational intrests focus on enabling scientific computing on GPUs via the development of performance-portable codes: codes that are capable of high performance on various GPU and CPU architectures.

Feel free to contact me for collaboration via email.

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Education
  • PhD in Astrophysics and Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, 2022

    Michigan State University

  • BSc in Physics and Mathematics with Emphasis in Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2016

    Brigham Young University

Projects

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Exascale simulations of magnetized AGN jets on Frontier
INCITE 2023 Award to run exascale simulations of magnetized AGN jets in galaxy clusters
AthenaPK and Parthenon
Fully Fledged Performance-Portable Astrophysics Simulations with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
K-Athena
Proof-of-Concept Performance-Portable Uniform Grid Astrophysics Code
Magnetized Turbulence in the Taylor-Green Vortex
Investigating the development of MHD turblence in the absence of driving forces

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Metropolis Postdoctoral Fellow
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sep 2022 – Present Michigan

Research:

  • Exascale Simulations of Galaxy Clusters on Frontier
  • Support Performance Portable Astrophysics at LANL
 
 
 
 
 
PhD Student
Michigan State University
Aug 2016 – Aug 2022 Michigan

Research:

  • Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback Models
  • Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters
  • Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
  • Performance Portable Exascale Astrophysics Codes

Teaching:

  • Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Astronomy
  • Teaching Assistant for Parallel Computing
 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Student Researcher
Sandia National Laboratories
Dec 2018 – Aug 2022 New Mexico

Research:

  • Robust schemes for relativistic hydrodynamics
  • IMEX methods for relativistic two-fluid electrodynamics
 
 
 
 
 
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Apr 2015 – Aug 2016 New Mexico

Research:

  • Radiation hydrodynamics via ray tracing techniques for meshless hydrodynamics
  • Pop III Star Formation
 
 
 
 
 
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Physics, Brigham Young University
Dec 2013 – Apr 2016 Utah

Research:

  • Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics on GPUs
 
 
 
 
 
Undergraduate Project Assistant
Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University
Feb 2014 – Apr 2016 Utah

Teaching:

  • Helped write lab manuals on numerical methods

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