Research Focus

I am a Research Scientist at Virginia Tech. My primary focuses are on experimental neutrino physics and dark-matter searches. I design and integrate detector systems and build data-driven analyses for neutrino oscillations, sterile-neutrino searches, and liquid-argon TPC experiments (DarkSIDE-20k). We build precise experiments and robust analyses to probe physics beyond the Standard Model.

Current

• DarkSIDE-20k (LNGS, Italy): Hardware design, calibration, and integration for a liquid-argon dark-matter detector; developing QA workflows and precision components for stable long-term operation.
• DUNE / protoDUNE (Fermilab, USA & CERN, Switzerland): Collaborator focusing on detector operations and instrumentation in liquid-argon TPC systems.

Prior Contributions

• SoLid (BR2 Reactor, Belgium): Led background studies using full reactor-off data for simulation tuning; oscillation fit & sensitivity; introduced ML-based HNL signal discriminant; served as Data Manager and Data Quality & Operations Convenor for 3+ years.
• NOvA (Fermilab, USA): Conducted the first τ-appearance search for sterile oscillations in the Near Detector; developed TMVA-based hadronic-τ IDs; produced datasets for 8×10²⁰ POT analyses; contributed to APD QA, electronics replacement, and control-room operations.

Background (short)

My work spans detector hardware & QA, Monte Carlo production/analysis, and experiment operations. I focus on analysis architectures that remain robust under detector/systematic effects and on hardware procedures that keep large detectors stable over long runs.

Future Interests

Precision instrumentation and ML-assisted analysis pipelines for next-gen neutrino and dark-matter experiments; scalable QA systems for LAr-TPCs; and cross-experiment tooling that improves sensitivity and uptime.