Patricia (Patty) Cho is a third year graduate student working with Dr. Don Winget and Dr. Mike Montgomery to explore the physics of compact remnant cores of stars known as white dwarfs. She earned her BA in Asian Studies and Applied Linguistics from Williams College in 2010 and returned to academia in 2015 at Columbia University in New York to study astrophysics. She is a recipient of the 2020 Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship. Patricia has recently started working with Dr. Guillaume Loisel (SNL) to produce experimental photoionized plasmas using the Z-machine at Sandia in order to study atomic processes in black hole accretion disks.