Data Scientist II

Battelle Memorial Institute

Dec 2023 - Present

• Manage and direct a portfolio of multi-million-dollar technical initiatives ($1.3M+ annual revenue), driving continuous operational improvement
• Lead a cross-functional team (15+ data scientists and modelers) in developing a robust, large-scale probabilistic risk assessment to guide strategic investments
• Instituted best practices for code governance and documentation (CI/CD principles), significantly mitigating technical debt and enhancing overall system maintainability across the modeling group
• Drive critical business decisions by synthesizing complex analytical findings into high-impact executive presentations, directly influencing investments valued over $100 million

Data Scientist I

Battelle Memorial Institute

Nov 2022 - Dec 2023

• Engineered performance improvements for mission-critical, client-facing code, achieving a 40x speedup in processing time while maintaining rapid turnaround times
• Developed a custom file format optimized specifically for departmental workflows, eliminating complex manual data preparation steps and significantly reducing operational latency for cross-functional teams
• Translated complex statistical models and deep analytical outcomes into clear, actionable visualizations and executive summaries for technical and non-technical stakeholders, enabling faster decision-making

The Ohio State University

Master of Science in Physics

Aug 2021 - Nov 2022

• University Fellowship
• Advisor: Andrew Heckler

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Transylvania University

Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Mathematics

Sep 2018 - Dec 2020

• 4.0 GPA
• Advisor: Stephen Johnson

Experimental Search for Neutron to Mirror Neutron Oscillations as an Explanation of the Neutron Lifetime Anomaly

Physical Review Letters

May 27, 2022

An unexplained >4σ discrepancy persists between “beam” and “bottle” measurements of the neutron lifetime. A new model proposed that conversions of neutrons n into mirror neutrons n′, part of a dark mirror sector, can increase the apparent neutron lifetime by 1% via a small mass splitting Δm between n and n′ inside the 4.6 T magnetic field of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Beam Lifetime experiment. A search for neutron conversions in a 6.6 T magnetic field was performed at the Spallation Neutron Source which excludes this explanation for the neutron lifetime discrepancy.

Physics Education Research

The Ohio State University

Andrew Heckler

Aug 2021 - Nov 2022

I analysed data to see what effect answer format has on the learning and assessment of vector addition in introductory physics. I found that the free response answer format had many benefits for both learning and assessment for online vector addition.

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Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Leah Broussard

Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

I created a simulation and performed data analysis for the search for mirror neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I used CUDA and the Julia programming language to calculate the probability of detecting mirror neutrons in the experiment for tens of millions of points in the parameter space of interest.

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Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Leah Broussard

Jun 2020 - Aug 2020

I created a simulation tracking the spin of neutrons in the measurement cell for the nEDM@SNS experiment to study systematic effects that could lead to a false EDM measurement. I used Julia and CUDA to create the simulation to run on Graphics Processing Units. I presented this work at the 2020 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics.

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Optical Physics Research

Transylvania University

Stephen Johnson

May 2019 - Dec 2020

I created a simulation of transverse photothermal deflection spectroscopy. I used COMSOL Multiphysics to model the heat deposited on the sample by a broadband light source and the temperature dispersion throughout the cuvette. Then, I used Julia to trace light rays through the cuvette to determine the signal on the detector. This work was presented at the COMSOL Conference 2019 Boston.

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Nuclear Physics Research

University of Kentucky

Christopher Crawford

Jan 2019 - Aug 2019

I used COMSOL Multiphysics and MATLAB to solve for and iteratively refine the windings of electromagnetic coils for the nEDM experiment. The windings were found using the equipotential contours of the magnetic scalar potential along the boundary of the coil. This work was presented at the COMSOL Conference 2019 Boston.

2022 AAPT Summer Meeting

Jul 9-13, 2022

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2021 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics

Oct 11-14, 2021

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2020 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics

Oct 29 - Nov 1, 2020

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COMSOL Conference 2019 Boston

Oct 2-4, 2019