Optics Laboratory AssistantSep 2025 – May 2026
SBU Physics — Prof. Aishwarya Kumar
Engineered a point-source microscope and a real-time Python alignment suite for Bessel-beam profiling in ultracold-atom cavity experiments, replacing visual estimation with quantitative spatial measurement.
Cloud AdministratorMay 2025 – May 2026
SBU CS — COMPAS Lab, Prof. Michael Ferdman
Administered Proxmox and OpenStack infrastructure — VM provisioning, resource allocation and health monitoring for 50+ professors and students, with proactive hardware replacement to sustain uptime.
HPC Support Staff MemberFeb 2025 – May 2026
SBU Research Computing & Informatics, IACS
Compiled scientific software from source, configured Tcl environment modules and provisioned users on a cluster serving 1000+ researchers; deployed compute nodes and network switches.