Research

Math Research

I joined the Math Research Club my freshman year to learn how professional mathematicians turn ideas into publishable work. By sophomore spring I was directing our junior-varsity team in the M3 MathWorks Challenge, helping them build a first-round modeling paper. As a junior I became club president, so I now run workshops on proof strategy and data modeling, schedule practice sessions, and organize our bid for the 2026 M3 Challenge. My goal is to push our team beyond contest routines and toward original questions we can solve with linear algebra, calculus, and simulation. The club environment lets me test conjectures with friends, polish technical writing, and practice presenting results—skills I will need in upper-level physics and, eventually, quantitative finance.

Science Research

Through the Chaminade Science Research Program I first explored biology, running toxicity assays on superparamagnetic iron-oxide nanoparticles in Artemia salina. That work earned a Meritorious Award at the 2025 Long Island Science Congress, showing me how careful lab design connects hypotheses to real data. Recently I pivoted toward physics: I am planning projects in classical mechanics, electromagnetism, and computational simulation under faculty mentorship. Moving from wet-lab protocols to quantitative modeling lets me apply calculus, coding, and statistics to physical systems—the same toolkit I will refine as a physics major and later apply to large-scale market problems in quantitative finance.