short biography

I earned my B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at Michigan State University in May 2016 before joining the Phases Research Lab in July 2016 as a NSF Research Trainee in the Computational Materials Education and Training (CoMET) program.

In 2018, I was awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship to develop state of the art CALPHAD database development and uncertainty quantification tools. These tools are used to combine first-principles density functional theory calculations with experimental thermochemical and phase equilibria data to create a multicomponent CALPHAD database for studying viable composition paths in functionally graded, additively manufactured alloys that transition from steel to titanium alloys. The uncertainty quantification of CALPHAD model parameters enabled by ESPEI can be propagated through pycalphad calculations using PDUQ to offer users the ability provide uncertainty estimates for any thermodynamic quantity including energies, equilibrium compositions, transformation temperatures, and phase boundaries

Education

• B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan State University

Academic Interests

• CALPHAD modeling tools

• Uncertainty quantification

• Density Functional Theory

• Additive manufacturing

• Modeling of phase stability and phase transformations

Non-Academic Interests

• Open-source software development

• Programming languages