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Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Design of experiments for electrochemical detection of cannabinoids in various product types including flower, oil, hash, resin, etcDevelopment of mathematical models to describe the interactions and dynamics within electrochemical cellsWork with hardware team to translate laboratory experiments into a handheld consumer product for cannabinoid metrologyDesign and coding of various signal processing algorithms for analysis of electrochemical data, employing methods including traditional Fourier analysis, wavelet analysis, fractional or semi-integral calculus, neural networks, etcStatistical analysis/inference of electrochemical data including model building, curve fitting, similarity of signals, calculation of confidence intervals via exact, bootstrap, and/or Monte Carlo methods, etcCoding of consumer-facing code for an electrochemical sensor capable of detecting cannabinoid concentrationsFinite Element Method (FEM) simulations of screen-printed electrodes to analyze the electric field lines and determine deviations from analytical modelsMiscellaneous work as it arises in the context of a startup business

Thunder Bay, On, Canada

Sample digestion of fire assayed beads using aqua regiaICP-OES and AAS analysis of samples digested with aqua regia after separation from soilsample via fire assayGravimetric analysis of gold contents in beads received from fire assay

Thunder Bay, Ontario

Performed fire assay techniques such as fluxing, fusing, and cupelling samples in preparation forfor digestion by aqua regia or gravimetric analysis

2700 Swansea Crescent, Ottawa

Performed optical measurements to make processing decisions regarding thin film optical filtersMeasured laser & thermal annealing curves for inducing wavelength shift in optical filtersDeveloped a thermal annealing procedure to improve daily production capacity

Discovered the exact likelihood function for estimating Poisson event rate parameters using classification algorithms such as convolutional neural networks. All existing alternatives rely on assumptions that are rarely applicable in practice (e.g. normality of data)Constructed a cryogenic lab: Installed exhaust systems for coolant fluid, sealed and leak-checkedan ultra-high vacuum cryostat, installed electrical and optical componentsConducted underground shift work in a salt mine 600 m underground at WIPP in New Mexicowhere I monitored the international EXO-200 experiment and maintained equipmentDesigned an experiment for high-voltage breakdown studies in liquid dielectricsAdministrated a Dropbox account for a five person research team at Carleton UniversityDeveloped machine learning classification algorithms for analyzing physics dataUsed finite element simulations to design apparatus using laminar fluid flow, heat transfer,electromagnetic interactions of particles in fluids, and nucleate boiling in flowing fluids

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Used SIMION simulation software to optimize Ba+ ion trap efficiency, assisted in optimization of an optical line for laser induced fluorescence in a linear Paul trap.

Dublin, Ireland

Used Raman and FTIR spectroscopy as a method of assessing the maturity of various types of coal samples. Proposed a refinement to a previously proposed method of measuring maturity by applying ANOVA to remove redundancies from the model.

Ottawa, Canada

Master’S Degree, Experimental Particle Physics

B.Sc (Honours), Physics (Theory)