I grew up in California. I received a B.S. in 2012 from Loyola Marymount University and then an M.S. in 2015 from the University of Southern California, where I continued for a Ph.D. (2021), advised by Scott E. Fraser and Thai V. Truong at the Translational Imaging Center, and funded by the Alfred E. Mann Institute. In fall 2021, I moved to Princeton University to take a Robert H. Dicke Fellowship in Experimental Physics, and serve as a Fellow of the Center for the Physics of Biological Function. I was awarded Princeton's Dean for Research Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Natural Sciences in 2023, serving as co-Principal Investigator. In 2025, I founded CAPE: Coastal Applied Physics & Engineering, a company creating tailor-made optical technologies and solutions for scientific discovery. I also serve as Founding Technical Lead of Microscope Development at Triplet Imaging. |