Quantify uncertainty on the lattice QCD inputs that feed many-body nuclear theory, separating statistical noise from fit-range, operator-basis, and model-selection systematics, and advancing Bayesian methods for the hand-off between the two scales. • Writing a Wilson-clover HMC/RHMC gauge-field sampler from scratch in C99, parallelized with MPI and OpenMP, with a CUDA port of the Dslash underway for GPU offload (see Research Software below). • Own the simulation chain end to end on DOE HPC systems: gauge-ensemble generation, quark propagators, contractions into correlation functions, and the Python analysis that produces nuclear matrix elements. • Compute matrix elements in 1+1 dimensional systems with tensor-network methods, and map the quantum-hardware imple- mentations these calculations would require at scale.
Competitive DOE Office of Science SCGSR fellowship: a year in residence developing lattice QCD methods for baryon reso- nances and two-nucleon systems. • Ran and analyzed large-scale production campaigns on DOE leadership-class supercomputers (NERSC, OLCF): SLURM job or- chestration, data management, and Python analysis workflows over terabyte-scale correlator output. • Co-authored the determination that di-nucleons form no bound states at heavy pion mass, resolving a long-standing discrep- ancy in the literature through careful statistical treatment of excited-state contamination.