Akash Joseph Email & Phone Number

Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States

• Completed 3 projects related to improving Digital Quality Control for Pampers & Luv’s manufacturing lines
• Worked with Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) to improve Process Reliability through better monitoring of devices on manufacturing line
• Tested and corrected computer vision algorithms which were failing standard
• Created new data model to flow health data to server, visualized findings through Grafana dashboards

Houston, Texas, United States

• Designed and programmed Python software to fully automate the process of downloading, converting, filtering, and merging of 21 years of nutritional data from the CDC’s NHANES datasets.
• Utilized packages such as Mechanize, NumPy, and Pandas and implemented and optimized code to an organized Jupyter Notebook and visualized final product in Tableau to determine nutritional deficiencies across subgroups.
• Project under Dr. Derek Miketinas and Dr. Kavitha Shankar for a thesis (publication on the way).

• Conducted research regarding the relationship between groundwater thickness and the Urban Heat Island Effect in conjunction with the NASA SEES program.
• Utilized Python, NetCDF4, and Matplotlib to fetch, extract, and analyze remote sensing data from satellite imagery such as Landsat and GRACE images (Story Map: http://tinyurl.com/UHIEandGroundwater)
• Researched under the mentorship of Dr. Kevin Czajkowski and Dr. Yitong Jiang, presented findings to a panel of researchers.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Computer Engineering, Engineering Honors, 3.96

High School Diploma