Audrey Farrell - Graduate Student Researcher

Audrey Farrell

Graduate Student Researcher

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Audrey Farrell is a Ph.D. candidate in physics at UCLA specializing in laser-plasma interactions and experimental plasma diagnostics, with eight years of research experience spanning Thomson scattering, interferometry, Faraday rotation, and electron beam deflectometry. She leads and co-designs experiments—currently co-PI on AE134—conducted both at UCLA and Brookhaven’s Accelerator Test Facility to measure Biermann battery and Weibel-instability magnetic fields in CO2 laser-driven plasmas. Audrey couples hands-on lab work with computational skills, simulating laser-plasma dynamics with OSIRIS and developing analysis code that applies computational geometry and machine learning to deflectometry and radiography. Her background includes detector design and optimized, lower-cost plasma accelerator simulations from her honors thesis, reflecting a practical focus on efficiency and algorithmic speedups. Outside the lab she’s honed communication and customer-facing skills through part-time service jobs and AV/media roles, enabling clear presentation of complex experimental results to diverse audiences.

8 years of coding experience

3 years of employment as a software developer

University of California, Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Stony Brook University

Github Skills (14)

parity9

simulation8

simulations8

physics8

machine-learning3

computer-vision3

machine-vision3

image-processing3

multimeter1

oscilloscope1

lockin1

python1

genicam1

measurements1

Programming languages (3)

C++PythonFortran

Github contributions (5)

acfarrell/PWFA-eTracks

Sep 2019 - Apr 2020

Contributions:54 commits, 62 pushes, 12 branches in 7 months

acfarrell/inverse_shadowgraphy

Nov 2021 - May 2023

Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months

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