Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate

CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder  ·  NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory  ·  Boulder, CO

Carbon cycle and drought dynamics; integrating NOAA GGGRN flask measurements; satellite instruments like FluxSat, TROPOMI, OCO-2, GRACE, etc.; reanalysis datasets like ERA5-Land; and process-based models like the SiB4 land surface model to better understand biospheric responses to drought in the Western United States. 

Mar 2026 – Present

Human Frontier Collective Specialist — GenAI

Scale AI  ·  San Francisco, CA (remote)

Developing evaluation frameworks and contributing climate science and atmospheric chemistry domain expertise to assess and improve next-generation generative AI models.

Apr 2025 – Present

Doctoral Researcher, Greenhouse Gas Research Group

Johns Hopkins University  ·  Baltimore, MD

Modeled U.S. emissions of sulfuryl fluoride, methyl bromide, and C₃–C₅ alkanes using long-term NOAA GGGRN atmospheric measurements and inverse methods.

Jan 2020 – Feb 2026

Applied Data & Governance Fellow

International Innovation Corps, University of Chicago Law School  ·  Chicago, IL

Research support for large-scale randomized control trials in India, including health insurance and wage insurance experiments. Built data pipelines in Python, R, and Stata.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Education

Ph.D., Geography & Environmental Engineering

Johns Hopkins University  ·  Baltimore, MD

Dissertation: U.S. emissions of trace gas air pollutants inferred from a long-term atmospheric measurement network: from fumigants to fossil fuels

Advisor: Prof. Scot M. Miller

Jan 2020 – Feb 2026

M.S., Geophysical Sciences

The University of Chicago  ·  Chicago, IL

Thesis: An Adjoint Trajectory Model of the Perturbed Carbon Cycle

Aug 2016 – Aug 2018

B.S., Applied Mathematics  ·  B.A., Chemistry

University of Rochester  ·  Rochester, NY

Graduated cum laude with Highest Distinction in Chemistry, with Distinction in Mathematics

Aug 2012 – May 2016