Research.
Optics and instrumentation, physics education, and computational electromagnetics — current and past.
UCF Astrophotonics Lab · CREOL · 2025 – present
Photonic lanterns.
Measuring the wavelength-dependent complex transfer matrix of a photonic lantern by off-axis digital holography across the C-band.
Independent · 2026
CELERIS.
A from-scratch rigorous coupled-wave analysis solver and metalens design pipeline, CUDA-accelerated. Sole-author manuscript in preparation.
UCF Physics · 2026 – present
Physics education.
ESTELA — multi-version isomorphic exams generated from structured problem banks, with an agentic pipeline that drafts and validates new problems. NSF- and Gates-funded.
UCF Physics · 2026 – present
Narvi.
An agentic workflow that designs and builds interactive STEM demonstrations in real time, for people who don't write code.
UCF Astrophotonics Lab · CREOL
PolyOculus.
Mount control and pointing automation for an instrument program building photometric observing capability from a networked array of 8 telescopes.
Florida Atlantic University · 2024 – 2025
AI detectors.
Grant-funded evaluation of two evasion techniques against three AI-text detectors, measuring what they cost in style as well as what they buy in detectability.