ABOUT ME

I am a sixth-year astronomy PhD candidate at UMass Amherst working with Dr. Yuan Li. Previously, I was a PhD candidate in physics at the University of North Texas. My doctoral thesis focuses on computer simulations of the feeding and feedback cycle from supermassive black holes at the center of massive elliptical galaxies. I was also a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Astrophysics during Fall 2023, developing machine learning techniques to automatically segment current sheet structures in magnetized plasma turbulence simulations. Further details about my past and current research can be found in the Research section.

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I grew up in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, before moving to the U.S. as a cultural exchange student in 2014. I graduated high school with a GED in 2015. I then obtained an A.S. from Central Arizona College in 2017, a B.S. in Physics from University of Rochester in 2020, and an M.S. in Physics from University of North Texas in 2022.

Outside of research, I enjoy traveling, building computers, and solving Rubik's cubes. I also do landscape photography, and on the rare occasions, astrophotography. Consequently, images that appear as backgrounds on this website were taken (or made) by me.