Hi, I'm Riley!

I am a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware and member of Dr. Federica Bianco's Astro Statistics Lab (FASTLAB)

My research interests primarily involve enabling population-level statistical studies of M dwarf flares in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time by exploiting atmospheric refraction.

I am a member of the Rubin LSST Transients and Variable Stars Science Collaboration and a member of the TVS Software Task Force. As part of the Software Task Force, I helped create and instruct a series of workshops called Intermediate Python for Astronomical Software Development.

I am also the project lead of Rubin Rhapsodies, a project to broaden access to the LSST through sound.

I recently gave a dissertation talk at AAS 245, which you can watch here, among other FASTLab talks and presentations.