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  • 2019-present: Senior Scientist (Staff Scientist Level 4), Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • 2019-2023: Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • 2016-2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • 2012-2016: Post-doctoral Researcher, Kansas State University (stationed at Fermilab full time)

  • 2007-2012: Ph.D. in Physics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University,

  • 2007-2009: M.S. in Physics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Wayne State University

  • 2003-2005: M.Sc. in Physics, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, India

  • 2000-2003: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science, Sri Venkateswara University, India

  • 2023: LANL Individual Distinguished Performance Award

  • 2019: Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award (ECA)

  • 2015: Neutrino Physics Intensity Frontier Fellowship, Fermilab

  • 2012: Dissertation Fellowship, Wayne State University

  • 2011: Universities Research Association (URA) Visiting Scholar Award, Fermilab

  • Member, APS DPF Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD), 2024-present

  • Deputy Coordinator, DUNE Phase-II Program, 2023-present

  • Chair, LANL Director’s Colloquium Committee, 2021-2023

  • Chair, MicroBooNE Experiment Collaboration Board, 2021, 2-year term 

(international collaboration of 36 institutes with 180+ collaborators)

  • Technical Leader, DUNE Calibration and Cryogenic Instrumentation Consortium, 2020-present

(leading scientific and technical effort from 20+ institutes internationally)

  • Chair, MicroBooNE Scientific Talks Committee, 2019, 2-year term

  • Member, DUNE Executive Board, 2018-20

  • Consortium Leader, DUNE Slow Controls and Cryogenic Instrumentation, 2017-20
    (leading scientific and technical effort from 18 institutes internationally)

  • Co-Leader, DUNE Calibration Task Force, 2017-20

  • Member, DUNE Technical Board, 2017-present

  • Project Level-3 manager, SBND experiment Slow Controls System, 2015-20

  • Co-Convener, MicroBooNE Neutrino Cross Section Physics Group, 2015-17

  • Convener, MicroBooNE Cosmogenics Studies Task Force, 2014-15

  • Installation and Commissioning Leader, MicroBooNE Slow Controls System, 2014-15

  • Co-Convener, MicroBooNE Software Tools Group, 2013-16
     

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Employment

Awards

Scientific Leadership

  • Reviewer & Panelist, LANL LDRD Exploratory Research (ER) Program, 2020-2022

  • Co-chair, LDRD ER Program Quarks To Cosmos (QTC) Review Panel, 2022

  • Reviewer & Panelist, DOE HEP Intensity Frontier University Comparative Review, 2021

  • Reviewer & Panelist, DOE High Energy Physics (HEP) University Detector R&D, 2021

  • Reviewer & Panelist, DOE HEP Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) institutional review, 2021

  • NuTools Technical Panel, DOE/Defense Nuclear Non-proliferation R&D, 2021-present

  • Reviewer, DOE/NNSA Neutrino Experiment One (NEO) Research Ideas call, 2020

  • Reviewer, DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR), 2019

  • Panelist and Reviewer, DOE Intensity Frontier Laboratory Comparative Review, 2018






 

Review Committees

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