"Hello, student! This is Ryan. As of November 2025, I have helped dozens of students from age 11-77 start research projects from scratch, learn to code*, and publish their results in academic journals.

*AI/ML, Python, traditional data analysis methods, astrophysical CFD

I graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s in Physics and Mathematics (double major) from Wheaton College (Norton, MA). For my honors thesis I developed a magnetohydrodynamics code in Python. Subsequently, I earned my PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of Michigan. After living in Germany for nearly two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, I served as a professor at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

My former students have successfully landed summer internships at Cambridge, the European Space Agency, the Air Force Research Lab, and Oxford. My colleagues are professors & researchers at Princeton University, Caltech, Cornell, NTHU (Taiwan) & more!

My research involves how galaxies make stars, dark matter, and black holes using computational methods. I run my simulations on some of the world’s largest supercomputers. Therefore, developing efficient code in Fortran, C, C++, and Python is my bread & butter :)

I have mentored ~20 high school (HS) students one-on-one, teaching them from the ground-up how to use Python, Unix, git, etc. to the point they ran their own simulations and published their research in competitive academic journals.

I am helping two Google (sales) engineers improve their coding abilities, particularly with respect to creating vibe-coded web applications (Python backends, HTML + Tailwind CSS + JS frontends) using GCP. I have helped ten high school students and one master's student complete cybersecurity projects (denial of service attacks, network analysis, and authentication for AI chat bots).

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a lesson, contact me." less...