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Hello, I am

David Nguyen

Astrophysics PhD Candidate | Yale University

Who am I ?

Yale PhD Candidate working on the Simons Observatory

I am a 4th year PhD at Yale University. I am currently a member of the Simons Observatory, the latest ground-based CMB experiment located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. I'm hoping to continue in academia with a Postdoc. My interests are in cosmology, specifically the CMB.

My Expertise

Cosmology

Currently working on the Simons Observatory, previously worked on CHIME, and worked on projects with Planck data


Software Development

Development of alarm system, data processing pipeline, and various agents to interface with on-site observatory hardware


Data Analysis

Analysis of SO commissioning data including detector yield, noise, etc


Personal Info

My Resume

Work Experience

2022 - Present

Simons Observatory

Graduate student researcher


Summer 2018

NASA Glenn Research Center

NASA Undergrad Intership | Mentor: Maria Havenhill


Summer 2016

NASA Glenn Research Center

NASA GHIP Intership | Mentor: James Nessel

Education

2021 - Present

Yale University | PhD Program
New Haven, CT

Advisor: Laura Newburgh


2017 - 2021

University of Southern California | B.S. in Physics
Los Angeles, CA

Advisors: Vera Gluscevic and Edward Rhodes


2013 - 2017

St. Ignatius High School | High School Degree
Cleveland, OH

Skills

Python
C++
HTML & Javascript
SQL & InfluxQL
Git
Docker

Languages

English
Vietnamese
Japanese

2

First Author Papers

30,000+

Lines of Code Committed

A lot

Hours Debugging

10,000+

Photos Taken of My Cat

My Research

The Simons Observatory: Alarms and Detector Quality Monitoring

arXiv
SPIE Program Page (Proceedings to be published)

Observational constraints on dark matter scattering with electrons

arXiv
APS Physical Review D

My Photography

Heart Nebula
Heart Nebula

Soul Nebula
Soul Nebula

Rosette Nebula
Rosette Nebula

Horsehead Nebula
Horsehead Nebula

North America Nebula
North America Nebula

Elephant's Trunk Nebula
Elephant's Trunk Nebula

Bubble Nebula
Bubble Nebula

Eagle Nebula
Eagle Nebula

Milky Way
Milky Way

Arch Star Trail
Arch Star Trail

Super Blue Blood Moon Trail
Super Blue Blood Moon Trail

Cholla Cactus Sunrise
Cholla Cactus Sunrise

Sequoia National Park Mountains
Sequoia National Park Mountains

Death Valley Dunes
Death Valley Dunes

Red Sunset in LA
Red Sunset in LA

Pebbles at Big Bear Lake
Pebbles at Big Bear Lake

Sand in the Wind
Sand in the Wind

Smoke Bomb USC
Smoke Bomb USC

Sunset Hair
Sunset Hair

Yosemite Merced River
Yosemite Merced River

Yosemite Tightrope
Yosemite Tightrope

My Blog

Home Server PC
Hello, World!

08/17/2024

Thank you for visiting my website!

This website is hosted on my very first home server.

In this first blog post, I give some details about the hardware and software setup process.

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