I am a Physicist (Program Manager) at the Dept. of Energy (DOE), Office of Science (SC), Office of High Energy Physics. As a physicist, my role is to steer a research frontier of high energy physics in discovery and innovation towards breakthroughs in knowledge that address pressing questions of our universe, and places the US at the vanguard of global leadership in particle physics. In my current role, I am responsible for leading the Intensity Frontier Research Program and the U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Cooperation Program in the Office of High Energy Physics. Researchers in the Intensity Frontier investigate some of the rarest processes in nature, including unusual interactions of fundamental particles and subtle effects that require large data sets to observe and measure. I am also responsible for the Reaching A New Sciences Workforce for High Energy Physics (RENEW-HEP) initiative. 

Until the early fall of 2020, I performed research in high energy physics as part of the KOTO collaboration. I investigated flavor physics and CP violation by focusing on the rare decay process of neutral kaons. I am also part of NKS2 collaboration at Tohoku University, Sendai Japan since 2008, where I earned my Ph.D.  My research interest focused on kaon physics, primarily on Lepton Flavor Violation in rare particle decays and also on strangeness production by electromagnetic interaction. I am interested in some of the looming questions for which the Standard Model cannot begin to address, nor fully less answer.

Most recently, I was awarded the American Physical Society 2022 (APS) Excellence in Physics Education Award.

In addition to research activities, I am advocate for providing opportunities to underserved and stastitically underrepresented communities in STEM fields, and for inclusive and equitable practices in physics and astronomy.