Physicist · Engineer · Builder

A physicist who ships hardware.

Ph.D. in AMO physics from Columbia, then Co-Founder & CTO of Rooted Robotics — where I designed eight commercial automation product lines from bare concept to CE-certified product. I work the full stack of real machines: optics, mechanics, electronics, firmware, and the vision/ML that runs on top.

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Peer-reviewed publications

1,324

Citations

Product lines developed

Patents pending

The arc

From nuclear-detector R&D to a physics Ph.D. to shipping commercial robots — one through-line: solve the problem by building the machine. Click any phase to go deeper.

2013–2017

Nuclear

University of Colorado Boulder

B.A. & Sc., Physics — Magna Cum Laude · Boulder, CO

Undergraduate physics, and my first taste of building scientific hardware — an automated QC test stand for the sPHENIX calorimeter at Brookhaven, and a C++ pile-up algorithm that ended up in 20+ published analyses.

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2017–2022

Laser & AMOQuantum

Columbia University

Ph.D., AMO Physics — Zelevinsky Lab · New York, NY

Ph.D. in atomic, molecular & optical physics. I led the molecular laser-cooling experiment — building the complete laser system from scratch and, when the senior student and postdoc both left during COVID, solo-rebuilding the entire apparatus for a new molecular species.

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2022–2026Now

Robotics & HardwareML & CV

Rooted Robotics

Co-Founder & CTO · Boulder / Denver, CO

Co-founded and led the company from formation through acquisition (close Q4 2026). Sole designer of eight automation product lines — mechanical, electrical, PCB, firmware, and CV/ML — growing revenue from $0 to $1.1M and earning CE certification.

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