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Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Developed in-house cyber catastrophe model, including ownership of the insured loss calculation implementation in Python and SQL.- Used statistical methods to develop model components from claims data and customer security scans.- Quantified the impact of Active CAT Management (ACM), i.e. the ability to actively work with insureds to limit claims aggregation as an event unfolds.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Built catastrophe models to quantify risk due to natural disasters including wildfires, tornadoes, hail, floods, and extratropical cyclones.- Used a combination of machine learning, statistical, and physical simulation methods to build catastrophe model components based on a combination of insurer claims data and geospatial/weather data.- Developed and deployed to production Live Events to give customers up-to-date storm impacts, including the use of unsupervised clustering algorithm (DBSCAN) to track individual hail storms in radar data.- Optimized simulation code and employed HPC tools to simulate tens of thousands of years' worth of extreme weather events using AWS.- Lead effort to document simulation code in compliance with government regulations. Successfully passed code audit by the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology.

Amherst, Massachusetts, Us

- Developed methodology for computationally reconstructing and analyzing the polymer nanostructures from high-resolution images, employing signal processing and graph machine learning techniques.- Invented and implemented a novel physics algorithm for simulating block copolymers with orientational interactions.

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

- Developed simulations and analysis tools to study packings of spherical particles confined to curved surfaces.- Performed numerical optimization to identify molecular configurations which optimize non-linear optical properties via Hessian analysis.- Employed graph Laplacian analysis to study the rigidity of sphere packings.- Mentored undergraduate students working on original research projects.- Developed and co-taught a computational physics course based on expert practices.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Soft Matter Physics

Bachelor’S Degree, Physics