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Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, TX

• Built WatchCBB (http://watchcbb.me), a web app that provides personalized recommendations of college basketball games to watch
• Scraped historical data of 60,000 college basketball games and used this to train a series of regression models to predict game-level features such as score margin, pace of play, and upset probability, achieving.
• Leveraged logs of thousands of game threads collected from Reddit in order to forecast the popularity and entertainment value of a given basketball game
• Constructed and maintained a daily-updating PostgreSQL database with cumulative season statistics for each team, upcoming schedule information, and the latest Reddit game threads
• Designed and deployed a web app with flask on AWS, which queries data from the PostgreSQL database in order to provide customizable recommendations of games to watch in the coming week

Santa Barbara, CA

• Processed, validated, and analyzed tens of billions of events of proton collision data in a search for new sub-atomic phenomena. Lead researcher on the inclusive MT2 analysis, one of the first at CMS to publish on the.
• Managed large-scale distributed computing workflows for parallelized processing and analysis of petabyte-scale experimental datasets
• Led a team in the development and deployment of machine learning-based anomaly detection tools to automate a time-consuming data quality monitoring workflow, eliminating 80% of required manual labor. Utilized both.
• Trained a series of boosted decision trees and neural networks to discriminate signal from background in a search for rare Higgs boson decays, improving the signal-to-background ratio by over 40%
• Designed and managed a multi-step data-processing pipeline for a new experiment searching for dark matter, including event generation, detector simulation, data cleaning, and final analysis
• Communicated results via frequent oral presentations and written internal documents

Geneva, Switzerland

• Configured the CMS hadronic calorimeter's online software to run under valgrind and developed computational tools to analyze and extract useful information from the memory-usage log files
• Studied the source code to identify the sources of memory leaks and suggested ways to eliminate them

West Lafayette, IN

• Implemented genetic algorithms to optimize an empirical term meant to correct DFT energies for Purdue's Theoretical & Computational Biomolecular Physics Group
• Extended the methodologies to other non-DFT energy calculation schemes

Houston, Texas

• Designed an interactive tool to visualize coordinate frames in International Space Station simulations, streamlining the process of developing and debugging the simulations
• Built a Tcl/Tk plugin to scatter rocks across virtual planets, eliminating the need for much tedious design work

West Lafayette, IN

• Investigated the use of high-throughput computational methods on a 3D image reconstruction tool on Purdue's Diagrid computing network
• Implemented parallel job submission capabilities to allow support for large datasets

Ph.D., M.A., Physics

Dissertation: "Search for new physics using the MT2 variable in all-hadronic final states produced in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at.

B.Sc., Honors Physics, Mathematics