Experience
Khallouf Future Power
Installation Assistant
Jun 2025
Damascus, Syria
- Helped with the installation of hundreds of solar panels, inverters, batteries, and cables across 10 different factories and houses in Syria.
- Contributed to the analysis of variable sources in dwarf galaxy IC 10 by cross-matching LCO observations, constructing light curves, and generating photometric diagrams to classify source types using Python and Astropy.
Python
Astropy
Admissions Ambassador
Sep 2023 - May 2026
Abu Dhabi, UAE / New York, USA
- Area Lead for Marketing Communications (AY 23-24); Lead Ambassador for Budgeting and Scheduling (AY 25-26).
- Conducted campus tours, office hours, student panels, and pre-application advising sessions.
- Coordinated Candidate Weekend logistics for 100+ prospective students.
- Managed scheduling, budget tracking, applicant data reporting, and ambassador recruitment/training using Slate CRM and WhenToWork.
- Visiting Ambassador at NYU Undergraduate Admissions, New York, USA (Jan 2025 - May 2025): conducted tours and participated in student panels during the spring recruitment cycle.
- Supported 10+ first-year students through comprehensive college transition programming, delivering 6 curriculum sessions covering self-discovery, wellness, intercultural competency, conflict transformation, and campus resource familiarization.
- Led orientation and Marhaba Week activities, including welcome sessions, social media campaigns, city outings, and chaperone duties; facilitated mandatory onboarding for incoming cohorts.
- Conducted individual check-ins and provided ongoing mentorship, emotional support, and conflict mediation within the residential community.
Research Assistant
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Summer 2023: Worked with a team of 10+ graduate researchers on three topological quantum computing projects; contributed to writing mathematical proofs in Cubical Agda to formalize configuration spaces and braids.
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024, and Summer 2024 (interdisciplinary Quantum eXploration Lab): Simulated and optimized Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) pulse sequences using the Spinach library on High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters.
- Applied Optimal Control Theory and the GRAPE algorithm to design power- and time-efficient pulses for selective excitation in multi-spin systems.
- Assisted in the procurement and assembly of a quantum diamond spectrometer for NV-center NMR/ESR spectroscopy, based on established literature (Bucher et al.).
- Co-authored peer-reviewed publication: "Dynamic nuclear polarization: State of the art and future possibilities with light activation."
Cubical Agda
MATLAB
Spinach
Senior Physics Coach
Sep 2020 - Sep 2023
Remote
- Coached 20+ high school students preparing for national and international physics olympiad competitions; provided curriculum development, weekly training sessions, and exam preparation (Dec 2021 - Jan 2022).
- Designed and administered three competitive exams to evaluate student progress and identify areas for improvement.
- Led intensive week-long summer camp coaching before EuPhO and IPhO 2022; mentored students who achieved 1 bronze medal and 4 honorable mentions at IPhO 2022.
- Maintained 2 hours/week online office hours to address student questions and provide personalized support.