Projects
1. SQL, Python, and Tableau basketball stats project
A portfolio project where I generate statistics for a fake basketball league in Python, and run SQL queries against the resulting data. The data is visualized in a Tableau story.
2. R project on North Carolina employment trends
A portfolio project where I use hypothesis testing in R to investigate various employment trends in the state of North Carolina from 1990 to 2022.
3. Infection Simulator written with JavaScript
An interactive web application developed using JavaScript, using Python (Flask) for the backend, where the user can see the effects of various parameters on the spread of an infectious disease.
4. Transverse momentum dependence in J/psi production
Collaborators: Marston Copeland, Sean Fleming, Rohit Gupta, Thomas Mehen
- Calculated for the first time the 36 spin-dependent quark and gluon fragmentation functions at leading order in the strong coupling
- Derived cross sections for unpolarized, longitudinally polarized, and transversely polarized J/psi production via color octet photon-gluon fusion, using NRQCD factorization
- Compared the production of J/psi via quark fragmentation and photon-gluon fusion in different regions of phase space, to identify regimes to extract gluon TMDs and the color octet 3S1 matrix element
5. Decays of the exotic meson Tcc+
Collaborators: Lin Dai, Sean Fleming, Thomas Mehen
Academic research project that also resulted in two papers, on the decay of the Tcc+ exotic meson, discovered by LHCb in 2021.
- Generalized the effective field theory for the X(3872), XEFT, to the case of the Tcc+
- Predicted the decay width and the differential decay distributions, with excellent agreement with the experimental results
- Estimated uncertainties due to next-leading-order contributions
- The agreement of data with our effective field theory model suggest a molecular interpretation for the meson
- Results cast doubt on the existence of a shallow bound state of pseudoscalar charm mesons, to which the Tcc+ could decay
6. Invisibility of a metamaterial microsphere
Collaborators: Cleon Dean, Maxim Durach, Kelvin Rosado-Ayala
- Simulated the optical properties of a wavelength-sized sphere consisting of concentric spheres of metal and dielectric
- Showed that increasing the metal fraction of the microsphere from all-dielectric to all-metal leads to a transitionary stage where the scattering cross section is negligible
- Rewrote our simulation code using Fortran and parallel computing, demonstrating significant speedup