EDUCATION AND TRAINING
| July 2010 – Oct. 2014 | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA Postdoctoral Research Associate (Guided by Dr. Mark Hogan) |
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| Oct. 2010 | International School for Linear Colliders, Villars, Switzerland Hosted by CERN |
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| June 2010 | U.S. Particle Accelerator School, Boston, MA Hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Jan. 2010 – May 2010 | Michigan State University VUBeam Online Graduate Particle Accelerator Education Program | |
| July 2003 – May 2010 | Boston University, Boston, MA Ph.D. in Physics (Experimental Neutrino and Proton Decay Particle Physics) Dissertation: A Search For Dinucleon Decay Into Kaons Using The Super-Kamiokande Water Cherenkov Detector (Guided by Prof. Ed Kearns, Boston University) |
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| Sep. 1998 – June 2003 | Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI B.S. in Physics Additional Major in East Asian Languages & Culture (Japanese) |
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| Nov. 2014 – Present | Associate Staff Scientist (continuing appointment) | |
| July 2010 – Oct. 2014 | Postdoctoral Research Associate Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests (FACET) Department of the Accelerator Directorate SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA Supervisor: Dr. Mark Hogan |
| Activities: | • Contributing member of SLAC/UCLA/Univ. of Oslo/École Polytechnique/Tsinghua Univ. Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWFA) experimental collaboration • Contributing member of SLAC/UCLA/Strathclyde Univ./Univ. of Hamburg/RadiaBeam Technologies under-dense plasma cathode (Trojan Horse) high-brightness beam injection experimental collaboration • Coordinator and participant in all plasma experiments at FACET, including electron PWFA, positron PWFA, hollow channel PWFA, plasma phase contrast imaging, self-phase modulation instability, beam ionization plasma injection, and laser ionization plasma injection • First experimental demonstration of a high-gradient, high-efficiency plasma wakefield accelerator for electrons (first author, cover of Nature) • Experimental discovery of a new regime for plasma wakefield acceleration of positrons (published in Nature) • Achievement of world's highest energy gain for an electron beam (9 GeV) in a beam-driven or laser-driven plasma wakefield accelerator • Experimental demonstration of beam-loading physics in a plasma wakefield accelerator • Experimental demonstration of self-modulation instability in a long electron beam traveling through an under-dense plasma • Experimental demonstration of energy doubling of an electron beam in a high-ionization potential gas • Experimental demonstration of a positron beam-driven hollow channel plasma wakefield accelerator • Experimental demonstration of low-emittance, ionization injected electrons in a plasma wakefield accelerator • Primary participant and analysis leader for plasma wakefield acceleration experiments at FACET • Co-developed and demonstrated electro-optic sampling diagnostic for temporal profiling of femtosecond electron beam • Co-developed and demonstrated longitudinal phase space tomographic technique for electron beam • Co-developed and demonstrated betatron radiation transverse and spectral profile monitor • Co-developed and demonstrated plasma phase contrast imaging diagnostic • Experimental coordinator for FACET 10 Terawatt laser system • System Laser Safety Officer for FACET • Project manager for experimental plasma vacuum chamber ($0.5M) • Project co-manager for FACET 10 Terawatt Laser System ($2.5M) • Project manager for FACET X-Band Transverse Deflector RF Structure ($2M) • Mentor role to Stanford University graduate students • Supervisor role to SLAC undergraduate summer student |
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| July 2003 – May 2010 | Research Assistant at Boston University, Boston, MA Advisor: Prof. Ed Kearns |
| Activities: | • Contributing member of Super-Kamiokande and T2K experimental collaborations • Established first experimental limit of dinucleon decay into kaons (listed in PDG) • First dinucleon decay analysis with a water Cherenkov detector • Developed experimental electronics monitor system (hardware & software) • Developed first multivariate analysis for Super-Kamiokande • Developed first multi-vertex event fitter for Super-Kamiokande • Participant in upgrades and maintenance of the Super-Kamiokande Large Water Cherenkov Detector • Participant in experimental shifts at Super-Kamiokande • Participant in detector R&D studies at the 1kTon water Cherenkov detector at KEK • Developed Geant4 Monte-Carlo simulation of muon range detector and fine grain scintillator particle tracking detector • Teaching assistant in physics department of Boston University • Writer and performer of touring physics demonstration show for high-school students |
