I am a theoretical chemist with expertise in quantum mechanics, linear algebra,
scientific computing, and science communication.
I am currently a Computational Scientist in the Physical Sciences Division at
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
I was previously a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Chemistry at
Yale University.
As a member of the
Batista lab,
one of my research interests was to explore the potential of
hybrid qubit-oscillator quantum computers for chemistry.
I led the development of the first electronic structure
algorithm
that can be implemented using bosonic quantum oscillators coupled to qubits.
I have a Ph.D. in Chemistry from
Rice University,
where I was a member of the
Scuseria group.
My doctoral
thesis
focused on developing quantum many-body methods tailored for
strongly correlated paired fermionic and spin-1/2 systems.
I helped develop
generalizations
of the Dicke state and the elementary symmetric polynomial,
which inspired me to coin the term
binary tree state.
More details on my research contributions is discussed on the
Research page.
The
Publications
page contains open-access preprint versions of my publications.