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			------ Jaren N. Ashcraft ----------------------
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			---------------------- Optical Scientist ------
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			  ** About ** 
			
			Optical Engineer III, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / High-contrast Imaging Group
			NHFP Sagan Fellow, UC Santa Barbara, 2024-2026
			Ph.D., M.S., Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 2019-2024
			B.S., Optical Engineering, University of Rochester, 2015-2019
			curriculum vitae

			  ** Contact ** 
			
			(808)-854-7542
			jarenashcraft@ucsb.edu

			  ** Research ** 
			
			Polarization Aberrations in NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory
			Yields 2026|
			6MST 2025
			
			
			Polarization Aberrations in 30m Ground-based Telescopes
			GSMTs II 2025 |
			GSMTs I 2023
			
			
			Gaussian Beamlet Decomposition for High-contrast Imaging
			2024 |
			2023 |
			JATIS Cover
			
			
			The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB)
			2026b | 2026a
			
			2025c | 2025b | 2025a
			
			2024a | 2024b | 2024c
			
			2022a | 2022b
			
			
			The Versatile CubeSat Telescope
			2021
			

			  ** Open-source Tools ** 
			
			Poke: Ray-based Physical Optics
			2023 | GH Repository | Docs
			
			
			Katsu: Mueller Matrices and Polarimetric Data Reduction
			JOSS Paper |
			GH Repository
			
			
			dygdug: Coronagraph Optimization and Focal-plane Wavefront Sensing
			GH Repository
			
			

			  ** Resources ** 
			
			 Public Talks