Radio Telescope

UC Berkeley, 2011 to 2013. Undergraduate researcher.

A radio telescope designed, built, and programmed from scratch, plus a summer restoring a receiver at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

What I did

  • Designed and built the telescope in Berkeley’s radio astronomy lab.
  • At NRAO Green Bank, restored a radio receiver and built a mounting station to search for radio transients.
  • Devised a new technique for removing radio interference from large transient-search datasets.

What happened

Presented the NRAO work to observatory staff and the West Virginia Governor’s School.

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