CV
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Experience:
2023 - Present:
Research Space Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD2021 - 2022:
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA2019 - 2021:
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, ALSummer 2020:
NASA FDL Challenge Team Researcher, NASA Frontier Development Lab, NASA Ames and SETI Institute (remote)Summer 2019:
IRIS Summer Mentor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA2017 - 2019:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington and the U.S. Geological SurveySummer 2016:
Visiting Research Scientist, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CAEarly 2016:
Visiting Research Scholar, ISTerre, Grenoble, France2013-2018:
PhD Candidate, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand2012 - 2013:
Assistant Specialist II, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA2010 - 2012:
Graduate Student Researcher, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA2009 - 2010:
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Institute for Crustal Studies, Santa Barbara, CA
Education:
2013 - 2018:
PhD: Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand2010 - 2012:
MS: Geophysics, University of California Santa Barbara2006 - 2010:
BS: Geophysics, University of California Santa Barbara
Awards and Grants:
2021: NASA Science Mission Directorate Lunar Data Analysis Program (LDAP) grant:
"Thermal Moonquake classification and location using machine learning"2020: NASA Frontier Development Lab Collaborative Spirit Award
2020: Selected for NASA Frontier Development Lab research sprint:
"Knowledge Discovery Framework"2019: NASA Postdoctoral Program grant:
"Two deep learning models for planetary seismicity detection and classification"2017 - 2018: USGS Grant G17AC00083 for volcanic hazard seismology research in Saudi Arabia
2016: Vitoria University of Wellington Faculty Strategic Research Grant
2015: Best Poster Presentation, GeoSciences 2015
2014 - 2017: Mercury Energy grant for geothermal energy research
2013 - 2017: Victoria University of Wellington Doctoral Scholarship
Teaching and Mentoring:
2022 - present:
PhD Student at Caltech, Analysis of moonquakes in Apollo seismic data2021 - present:
PhD Student at Tulane University, Subsurface tomography of the East African Rift using ambient seismic noise2020 - 2022:
MS Student at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Automatic icequake classification and detection in the Arctic2019 - 2022:
BS student at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Seismic monitoring and tomography of the Sierra Negra volcano, Galapagos.2020:
Led a deep learning workgroup for NASA Marshall planetary science researchers2016:
Victoria University of Wellington ESCI 302 Teaching Assistant2015:
Led a Python coding workgroup for Victoria University of Wellington geophysics graduate students2009 - 2013:
NEES@UCSB education and outreach team2010 - 2012:
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience mentor for the Southern California Earthquake Center2011:
UC Santa Barbara Teaching Assistant
Training Courses:
2021: Structuring machine learning projects, Deeplearning.ai (coursera)
2021: Improving deep neural networks: hyperparameter turning, regularization, and optimization, Deeplearning.ai (coursera)
2020: Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Deeplearning.ai (coursera)
2014: Reservoir Geomechanics, Stanford Online (Mark D. Zoback)
Publication Reviewer:
Icarus
JGR-Planets
NASA Planetary Data System
Geothermics