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Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Blog SMU Schwarzman

I can officially announce today that I have been named a Schwarzman Scholar for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Schwarzman Scholarship is a one-year fully-funded masters program at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. I will be pursuing a Master of Management Science in Global Affairs with an emphasis in Science and Technology Public Policy. This is an awesome program and I encourage anyone interested to read about the program on their announcement as well as the press release that SMU wrote about the award. 

I began working on my application for several national fellowships last fall with Dr. Rachel Ball-Phillips at SMU, who is the director of SMU's national fellowship office. During this process, I decided to apply for the Schwarzman because it provided two unique opportunities for me: to continue my study of the chinese language in an immersion setting and to pursue a degree that explored how I can use my background in science for communication and policy. I have always been interested in speaking about the role that science plays in society, and I have realized how important it is for future researchers and scientists to understand the policy-making process as well as how to convey science to the public, government officials and corporations. The Schwarzman Scholars Program offers all these opportunities and more and I am so very excited to embark on this adventure next August when I leave for China.


Saturday, August 15, 2020 Professional Research EIC

UM-CERN NSF-REU Research Presentations

Presentation on work related to EIC Charm study with Dr. Stephen Sekula

Provided three separate research presentations and updates about my virtual summer research to the UM-CERN group including students and faculty


Thursday, April 16, 2020 Professional Presentation ATLAS

American Physical Society National Meeting Virtual Presentation

Presentation on work related to ATLAS Higgs study with Dr. Stephen Sekula

  • Virtual Oral Presentation of Research Project at “The Study of the Higgs Particle” session
  • Only undergraduate in session with other graduate and post-doctoral presentations
  • Provided a ten-minute summary of the research project emphasizing the applications of data science and machine learning to feasibility efforts in isolation of high momentum Higgs events

Thursday, October 17, 2019 Professional Presentation ATLAS

SMU ATLAS Meeting Presentation on Kinematic Study of 𝑯𝟎→𝒈𝒈→𝒃𝒃̅𝒃𝒃̅

Presentation on work related to ATLAS Higgs study with Dr. Stephen Sekula

  • Oral Presentation of Research Project at the Nuclear and Particle Physics Session at the Texas APS Chapter Meeting at Texas Tech University
  • Provided a ten-minute summary of the research project emphasizing the applications of data science and machine learning to feasibility efforts in isolation of high momentum Higgs events
  • Received Outstanding Oral Presentation Award for Research Presentation by the Texas Section of the American Physical Society

Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Professional Presentation ATLAS

SMU ATLAS Meeting Presentation on Kinematic Study of 𝑯𝟎→𝒈𝒈→𝒃𝒃̅𝒃𝒃̅

Presentation on work related to ATLAS Higgs study with Dr. Stephen Sekula

Provided status updates to the SMU ATLAS Group at the weekly meetings on the progress of the research project with peer review from the group.