ABOUT

My journey as a scientist began in rural New Hampshire, where I built antennas to detect nighttime radio wave reflections for measuring the dynamics of the ionosphere. 

Later on, working with giant detectors and distributed reconstruction algorithms, I analyzed the collisions of heavy ions in Long Island and Geneva to elucidate the properties of quark-gluon plasma.

Over the last decade, I've been coding up agent-based models of disease transmission to describe and predict the impact of interventions against malaria, polio, Ebola, and COVID.

I started Small Ninja with a goal of sharing some of the new things I learn from my occasional small and nimble explorations.