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Work and Focus

I'm currently a PhD student with Dave Johnston in the Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab at the Duke University Marine Laboratory and a Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST). My doctoral research focuses on satellite and drone based remote sensing for understanding coastal ecosystem dynamics and linkages between coasts, oceans, and the atmosphere. This includes machine learning approaches to remote sensing analysis, coordinating satellite, drone, and in-situ environmental monitoring, and understanding how autonomous systems will benefit field scientists. I'm particularly interested in systems that will be relevant for environmental monitoring as well as for exploring and understanding other bodies within our solar system.
Before joining the Duke Marine Lab, I worked at Harvard University as a research technician in the Girguis Lab, spent time at Moon Express as a Software Engineer developing their ground data systems and engineering team tools, and served a year and a half as Chief Technology Officer at WayPaver Foundation. I graduated from the University of North Carolina as a Morehead-Cain Scholar with a degree in Computer Science where I started UNC Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, helped start the Sigma Phi Society, and researched computer vision in the Alterovitz Lab.