I grew up in Fanwood NJ and moved to Burlington, VT in 2010 to start my undergraduate studies with the Mechanical Engineering department of the University of Vermont. I graduated with my Ph.D. in 2019 and plan to join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in early 2020 as a postdoctoral researcher.
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