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Sep 2026Set the female record for the North Channel open water swim. Read more in the Daily Camera.
Jul 2026Set the Lake Tahoe north-south and double-length open water swimming records. Read more in SwimSwam.
Mar 2026Awarded an NIH NRSA F31 Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for “Computational framework for aerosolization from vocal fold vibration.”
Jan 2026Received a Conference Support Fellowship from the Computer Science department at the University of Colorado - Boulder and a Dynamics Days Travel Fellowship for Dynamics Days 2026.
Dec 2025Published “The influence of glottal and respiratory factors on aerosol emission during phonation” in PLOS ONE.
Nov 2025Gave an invited talk, “From Climate to Clarinet Reeds: Navigating Flawed Data in Computational Physics,” at Vassar College.
May 2025Presented a talk, “A Computational Model of Phonation-Induced Aerosolization,” at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25) in Denver, CO.
Jan 2025Attended Dynamics Days 2025 in Denver, CO
2025Photograph “Fluctus Cloud” featured in the APS Division of Fluid Physics Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Sep 2024Joined the Computing Advisory Board as the Ph.D. student representative.
May 2024Notified that I was one of three College of Engineering nominees for the Google Ph.D. Fellowship.
May 2024Earned an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado - Boulder.
Apr 2024Received the CU-Boulder CS Department’s Outstanding Departmental Service Award, 2024
Feb 2024Won the Computer Science department award for best work-in-progress poster at the CS Research Expo, with primary author Zachary Atkins.
Jan 2024Awarded first and second poster prizes at Dynamics Days 2024 in Davis, CA
Dec 2023Received the Clive Bailie Memorial Conference Support Fellowship for travel to Dynamics Days 2024 in Davis, CA.
Dec 2023Passed my doctoral preliminary exam on “Experimental Design, Error Analysis, and Verification to Support the Validation of Computational Models”
Oct 2023Presented a poster entitled "An Experimentally Validated Model of Phonation-Induced Aerosolization" at the 41st Annual American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Conference.
Aug 2023Awarded the 2023 US Student Travel Grant for travel to the 41st Annual American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Conference.
Jul 2023Awarded the 2023 D. J. Kasik (1972) Scholarship Fund Award.
May 2023Presented a poster entitled "A dynamics-inspired model for phonation- induced aerosolization" at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS23)
May 2023Elected Chair of the Computer Science department Graduate Student Association (CSGSA).
Apr 2023Awarded the Outstanding Service Award by the Computer Science department at CU - Boulder
Mar 2023Presented a poster entitled "A Computational Model Of Phonation-Induced Aerosolization" at the 15th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice and Speech Research 2023
Jan 2023Presented a poster titled "A dynamics-inspired model for phonation-induced aerosolization" at Dynamics Days US 2023.
Nov 2022Awarded the 2022 Endowed Founder’s Fellowship by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado - Boulder.
Aug 2021Commenced a Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the University of Colorado - Boulder.