Teaching, Mentoring, and Community Engagement
Teaching
University of Utah
- Instructor, Intermediate Mechanics with Special Relativity Computing Lab (PHYS 3010-002; undergrad upper-level), Fall '25
- Instructor, Statistical and Computational Methods (ASTR/PHYS 7730; grad course), Spring '24 & Spring '25
- Instructor, Introduction to Cosmology (ASTR/PHYS 4080; undergrad upper-level), Fall '22, Fall '23, Fall '24, & Spring '26
Rutgers University
- Mentor, Byrne First-Year Seminar, Fall 2020
- Remote Guest Lecturer, Research Methods in Astrophysics (undergrad upper-level), Yale, Fall 2020
University of Pittsburgh
- Organizer, Data Science Workshop, Fall 2018
- Teacher, LSST DESC Dark Energy School VIII, Spring 2018
- Guest Lecturer, Galactic & Extragalactic Astronomy (grad course), Spring 2018
- Guest Lecturer, Basics of Space Flight (undergrad lower-level), Spring 2017
- Guest Lecturer, Solar System and Exoplanets (undergrad lower-level), Spring 2017
- Teacher, Intermediate Python Tutorials, Spring 2017
Stanford University
- Organizer & Lecturer, KIPAC Computing Boot Camp, Fall 2015
- Guest Lecturer, Practical Computing for Scientists (undergrad lower-level), Spring 2014 and Spring 2015
- Head Teaching Assistant & Guest Lecturer, Electricity and Optics (undergrad lower-level), Winter 2013
- Teaching Assistant, Computational Physics (undergrad upper-level), Fall 2012
- Teaching Assistant, Electricity and Optics (undergrad lower-level), Winter 2011
Mentoring
University of Utah
Current Research Group Members
- Raga Pucha: Postdoctoral Researcher, 2023–
- Tsung-Chi Chen: Rotation Graduate Student, 2025–
- David Ohlson: Graduate Student, 2025–
- Xiang Xu: Graduate Student, 2025–
- Alexis Brown: Undergraduate Student, 2024–
- David Fowles: Undergraduate Student, 2024–
- Cody Leishman: Undergraduate Student, 2022–
Research Group Alumni
- Ekta Patel, NASA Hubble Fellow, 2023–2025
- Emily Strickland, U of Utah Ph.D. '25
- Abigail Coker, U of Utah M.S. '23
- Josh Hill, U of Utah B.S. '24
- Emily Sageser, U of Utah B.S. '23
- Tadg Noland (with Ekta Patel)
- Kate Anderson
University of Pittsburgh & Rutgers University
I co-advised the following then-Ph.D. students when I was at University of Pittsburgh and Rutgers University:
- Ethan Nadler, Stanford Ph.D. '21 (with Risa Wechsler)
- Kuan Wang, Pitt Ph.D. '21 (with Andrew Zentner)
- Catherine Fielder, Pitt Ph.D. '22 (with Jeff Newman and Andrew Zentner)
Stanford University
I co-advised the following then-undergraduate students with Risa Wechsler when I was at Stanford University:
- Benjamin Lehmann, Stanford B.S. '15
- Marc Williamson, Stanford B.S. '15
- Vincent Su, Stanford B.S. '16
Community Engagement
- Invited Speaker, Colloqueerum, Out in STEM at Stanford, Oct 2025
- Invited Speaker, St. George Astronomy Group, Mar 2024
- Invited Speaker, Salt Lake Oasis, Oct 2023
- Interviewee, LGBTQIA+ in Astronomy, IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach, Oct 2023
- Invited Speaker, First Friday Astronomy, Boise State Physics, Oct 2023
- Invited Panelist, KIPAC Public Lecture: The next decade of discovery with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, KIPAC/Stanford, Sep 2023
- Invited Guest, The Astro Show, Wyoming Stargazing, Dec 2022
- Interviewee, Queer Experiences in Astronomy, JustSpace Alliance, Jun 2022
- Panelist, Out in Astronomy, American Astronomy Society (AAS) and U of Utah, Mar 2022
- Invited Speaker, First Friday Astronomy, Boise State Physics, Oct 2021
- Invited Speaker, New Jersey Astronomical Association General Meeting, May 2021
- Invited Speaker, Friends of Rutgers Astronomy, Rutgers Univerity, Jan 2021
- Invited Speaker, Astronomy on Tap – Edinburgh, Fall 2018
- Speaker, Astronomy on Tap – Pittsburgh, Fall 2017
- Invited Speaker, Allegheny Observatory Public Lecture, Spring 2017
- Volunteer, KIPAC Open House, 2013–2015
- Teacher, Stanford ESP Splash! Program, 2010–2014