University of Colorado Boulder, United States
I have several pet snakes, two pythons and two boas. They’re beautiful and quite affectionate – once they get to know you. We have lots of other pets too; I like animals. I take care of the farm at home, go out in the mountains, and write lots of code. I’m very interested in the machine learning side of things and writing good software to make precise measurements. I came from industrial software development in tech, but what really hooked me with particle physics is trying to learn something – something very specific – from a potentially noisy and difficult-to-deal-with data set. Neutrino physics data isn’t as messy as collider physics, but it has lots of unknowns. It’s a very interesting problem to me. DUNE is chasing the Holy Grail of neutrino physics. Being able to contribute both to machine learning and fundamental physics is the best of both worlds.