I am a third year PhD student in the physics department at Northwestern University. As an undergraduate I majored in physics, mathematics and computer science at the University of Oregon.

Right now

My research is in theoretical high energy physics. More specifically, phenomenology. That means I try to bridge the gap between theory and experiment. Currently, I am working on understanding the phenomenology of color octet scalars at LHC.

At some point ... aka other interests

I'm interested in just about everything.

If any of the things below sound interesting and you'd like to team up to try to work on them let me know.

• Using computers to tackle messy numerical real-world problems e.g. the netflix prize.
• The fact that certain NP-complete problems seem to exhibit phase transitions is worth looking into. Even if it is a coincidence that there is a phase transition in QSAT, this coincidence may shed some light onto something interesting.
• Quantum computing, information, algorithms, etc.
• Do we, as a species, really understand anything about macroeconomics? Understand as in having predictive power -- not ideology wrapped in hindsight sold as explanation. I'd like to try making some macroeconomic predictions.