My research interests are in high-energy particle physics and astro-particle physics - which is to say I like the use of accelerators and telescopes as instruments.

I currently work with the VERITAS experiment which is a ground based Cherenkov telescope. Here I do data analysis and tests of stability - statistical and algorithmic (systematic), in addition to searches for interesting objects/phenomena in our archival data.

I recently ran a small test of stability across observation zenith angles, to check that our analysis packages reconstruct the same object as having the same flux (within uncertainty), irrespective of the zenith angle we view it from. This test was somewhat limited by our direction reconstruction efficiency at larger values of zenith angle.

Most recently, I am working on optimizing a method for shower direction reconstruction using the location of the source in the camera plane and the location center of gravity of the image. For this I am training boosted decision trees to generate weight tables based on the parameters we consider relevant. The initial motivation for this was to be able to extend our analysis to larger zenith angles in order to be better able to study the stability in zenith angle.

I have previously worked on a study of the statistical fluctuations in upper limits set based on a single observation and the magnitude of differences we should reasonably expect.