Education

2023 — Present
Ph.D. in Physics
Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Clemson Quantum Group. Research focus on quantum computing, topological condensed matter, and quantum machine learning.

Research Experience

2023 — Present
Graduate Research Assistant
Clemson Quantum Group, Clemson University
Developing VQE frameworks for topological superconductor identification. Building CNN and quantum ML pipelines for Majorana zero mode prediction. Contributing to the group website and educational outreach materials.

Hackathons & Competitions

January 2026
iQuHACK 2026 — MIT
Reed-Muller decoding-based Clifford+T circuit optimizer (rmsynth).
2025
NYUAD Quantum Hackathon 2025
NeurotiQ: hybrid QNN/QSVM for EEG analysis with PennyLane and Streamlit.
2025
SC Quantathon v2 — SRNL Challenge
Quantum kernels (QSVM, QNN, Cirq) for tornado prediction.
January 2025
iQuHACK 2025 — MIT
Cat qubit simulation for Alice & Bob open quantum systems challenge.
2024
SC Quantathon v1
Quantum system simulation scripts and tools at scale.

Teaching & Outreach

2024 — Present
Qoffee Maker Activity
Designed and maintain an educational quantum circuit simulation activity to introduce quantum computing concepts to new learners.
2024 — Present
Clemson Quantum Group Website
Develop and maintain the group website (Next.js, React, TypeScript) to share research, member profiles, and news.

Technical Skills

Quantum Frameworks

Qiskit 2.x, PennyLane, Cirq, Dynamiqs

ML / Deep Learning

PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow

Scientific Computing

NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, h5py

Languages

Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, LaTeX

Web Development

Next.js, React, HTML/CSS, Streamlit

Infrastructure

SLURM/HPC, Git, Conda, GitHub Actions