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Portland, Oregon, US

Portland, Oregon, US

• Developed and deployed models for a major personalized marketing program, including: Uplift optimization trees (causal forests), Bayesian transaction count models, anomaly detection, Prophet time series forecasting.
• Contributed major development of a client's custom uplift modeling library: API design, code packaging/distribution, PySpark integration, and runtime performance optimizations to reduce cloud resource consumption by.
• Led development of MLflow-based toolchain for automatic model training and scoring. Improved visibility into model performance and unlocked 4x faster iteration by reducing operator effort.
• Implemented simulation framework for offline testing of reinforcement learning models using Ray-based parallelism.
• Designed and conducted real-world tests to measure campaign performance and generate training data for optimization models.
• Built and maintained automatic weekly campaign reporting solution for a large customer loyalty program. Distilled terabyte-scale raw data inputs to rich interactive Tableau dashboards using Spark SQL and Airflow.

Eugene, OR, US

• Responsible for 18 credit hours of college physics instruction.
• Taught two sections of one course in calculus-based physics, with lab.
• Taught two courses in conceptual physics for non-majors, with lab.
• Participated in faculty seminar on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Created Snotelier, a site implementing automated avalanche danger summaries for climbers and backcountry skiers.
• Scraped data from Northwest Avalanche Center and combined with USDA snow telemetry (SNOTEL) measurements to build PostgreSQL database using Python.
• Engineered features and fit a logistic regression model to predict avalanche danger using pandas and scikit-learn.
• Implemented web app based on Flask, Bootstrap, and the Google Maps API

Eugene, OR, US

• Co-instructed “Physics Behind the Internet”, a course for non-physics majors.

Eugene, OR, US

• Hailin Wang laboratory, Oregon Center for Optics.
• Primary project: investigating interlayer exciton-correlated hole tunneling in GaAs mixed-type quantum well (MTQW) structures at high magnetic fields.
• Side project: Diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers as a quantum bit candidate. Ion implantation and annealing, imaging of single emitters using homebuilt confocal microscope, manipulation of ground state spin using.
• Pump-probe spectroscopy of excitons, trions, and biexcitons in semiconductor quantum wells (GaAs, CdTe) and Bragg microcavities.
• Developed pulse shaper based on a phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM), with protection system based on BBO crystal frequency doubling.
• Two-time high-field user at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL. Operated 25T Split-Florida Helix at cryogenic temperatures, in both Voigt and Faraday geometries.

Eugene, OR, US

• Piloted FOSS inquiry-based science curriculum in rural school districts (Boardman, Pendleton), grades 4-6. Daily team teaching during four 2-week stays as scientist in residence.
• Guest scientist, Crow Middle/High School (2011). Supervised students preparing for EWEB solar car challenge. Developed curriculum on solar spectrum and filter functions.
• Developed bicycle smoothie machine for Charlemagne Fox Hollow Elementary School, Eugene, OR. With Carrie Grabowski (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015).

Gaithersburg, MD, US

• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (NIST SURF).
• Performed photoluminescence measurements of self-assembled GaAs quantum dots.
• Translated data-acquisition programs from MATLAB to Python.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Physics