Objectives:
To apply research and teaching skills towards scientific progress and
pedagogy in basic research, higher education, industry, and government.
Education:
- Ph.D. program (candidate), physics, University
of California
at Davis (1994-present)
- M.S., physics, San Jose State University
(1994)
- B.S., physics, San Jose State University (1991)
- Minor, mathematics, San Jose State University (1991)
- Minor, music, San Jose State University (1991)
Research experience: - Theoretical high energy nuclear
physics and phenomenology of higher twist effects in heavy quark and light
gluino hadroproduction (University of California, Davis and Ernest Orlando
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1995-present)
- Experimental infrared tunable diode laser spectroscopy and computational
physics (San Jose State University and NASA Ames Research Center through
the Graduate Student Researchers Grant and the Research
Experience for Undergraduates program, 1989-1994)
Awards and Honors: Ryan Couch Memorial Fund, Frederik N.
Fitting Award, Multicultural Awareness Award,Computational Physics
Award,twice nominated for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award,
twice received Outstanding Student Award
Publications(unabridged citations
available upon request): 10/e Young/Freedman University Physics
Instructors Solutions Manual Vol. 2 (in progress, principal
author),Intrinsic Charm in Hadron-Nucleus Interactions in the Intrinsic
Charm Model (principal author, Nucl.Phys.B539:189-214),The Measurement and
Modeling of Carbon Isotope Fractionation During Thermal Degassing of
Magnesium Oxide (Master's Thesis),Overview of Isotopic Analysis Using
Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometry (co-author, Spectroscopy), Improved
Stable Isotope Laser Spectrometer and its Application to Soil Analysis
(co-author, Novel Laser Sources and Applications)
Teaching Experience: Teaching Assistant, Physics for Engineers and
Scientists, (University of California at Davis, 1994-present)
Computer Skills: UNIX, Mathematica, FORTRAN, BASIC, IDL, LaTeX,
LINUX, Web Development (HTML, PERL, JavaScript, and CGI)
Technical Skills: data acquisition and analysis techniques,
computational and numerical modeling methods, IR laser spectroscopy