Jacquelyn (Jacqui) Gilchrist Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles

Developed the web application Hike Simply, a companion to AllTrails, that recommends hiking trails to a user based on their desired experience. • Webscraped trail pages from AllTrails.com using Selenium and BeautifulSoup. • Utilized Natural Language Processing feature-based methods using a word embedding model (word2vec) and content-based filtering (cosine similarity) to build a recommendation system. • Developed and deployed a web app on AWS using Flask, and HTML/CSS.

Los Angeles, California

Each year, the Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (UseIT) interns are given a grand challenge in earthquake information technology. In the summers of 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 they were tasked with running the earthquake simulator code RSQSim to generate long catalogs of California seismicity, and producing earthquake forecasts and hazard maps based on these catalogs. As a mentor, I worked closely with the High Performance Computing, and Forecasting teams to help them run simulations on the Blue Waters Supercomputer, analyze the results, and compute earthquake probabilities. (https://www.scec.org/useit)• Supervised 20-intern cohorts for the Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology program, and assisted them in performing original geophysical research to meet their Grand Challenge each summer.• Instructed students with no experience in running large-scale parallel codes on the Blue Waters Supercomputer, resulting in the longest simulated earthquake catalog ever produced (50 million earthquakes over 3 million years).• Instructed interns on analyzation and interpretation of simulation results using R.

Los Angeles, California

The SCEC Collaboratory for Interseismic Simulation and Modeling (CISM) was established to develop comprehensive, physics-based forecasting models for earthquake ruptures in California. (www.scec.org/research/cism)• Developed a probabilistic framework to assimilate simulated earthquake catalogs into the first comprehensive, and fully physics-based earthquake forecast.• Executed parallel simulations on thousands of processors to simulate millions of years of California earthquakes. • Organized the national Collaboratory for Interseismic Simulation and Modeling by leading weekly meetings, directing research efforts, and performing verification and validation of models.• Authored annual progress reports to secure external funding from W. M. Keck Foundation.

Teaching Assistant for the undergraduate courses Earthquake Country (Geology 8) and Natural Hazards (Geology 4). Responsibilities included leading discussion sections, holding office hours and exam reviews, and grading assignments.

Santa Cruz, California

Collaborated with a small team at the UCSC Seismology Lab to study the evolution of fault surface roughness using terrestrial LiDAR:• Processed the data using SlugView (a 3D point-cloud visualization and editing tool that I helped develop with the UC Santa Cruz Seismology Group). • Performed power-spectral analysis on LiDAR scans of fault surfaces using Matlab to quantify the roughness.• Developed an expression to describe the rate at which fault surfaces are smoothed with increasing fault slip.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Earthquake Physics

Activities and Societies: Hewett Club Lecture Series Coordinator (2014-2015) http://earthscience.ucr.edu/hc_sched.html

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Minor In Physics

Activities and Societies: Society of Physics Students