I'm Salma, a senior at Boston Collegiate Charter School who's been programming inconsistently for ~5+ years now. I'm interested in optical space instrumentation which combines my interests in engineering and astronomy.
Experience
Research
Astrophysics Research Internship
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Spring 2025
Research
SSP Astrophysics @ Colby College
The Summer Science Program
Summer 2025
Policy
Youth Councilor
Mayor's Youth Council Boston
September 2024 - June 2025
Math
Menezes Challenge PRIMES Circle
MIT
December 2024 - May 2025
Projects
See all projects See all projects linkMicro:bit Capacitive Touch Alarm
Uses Pin P1 and iron tape as a capacitive touch sensor to trigger LEDs and a tone, which stops after ~8 seconds. Designed as the foundation for an alarm system that responds to user interaction.
Engineering • Hardware ↗
Binary Black Hole Merger Predictor (Harvard CfA Project)
Wrote Python code to analyze large-scale COSMIC simulation data and predict binary black hole mergers. Used NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib to filter datasets, apply astrophysical models, and visualize merger patterns across different stellar conditions.
Astrophysics • Python • Python
Counterspell Boston
A beginner-friendly hackathon in Boston, run in collaboration with Hack Club, with 100+ attendees at the Microsoft Innovation Center in Cambridge, MA.
Hackathon • Event Planning ↗