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Make the world's knowledge of the quantitative sciences easily accessible, especially physics, chemistry, and biology, and also mathematics in a form that both computers and humans can understand, use, and extend. Then use this quantitative/computable knowledge to shift the borderline of what a computer (program) can understand, compute, and predict.Concretely this means advancing and broadening the Wolfram|Alpha website and the Wolfram Language by:* collecting, normalizing, curating, and efficiently storing (small and big) data and algorithms (mathematical formulas and structures, physics formulas, chemical reactions, units and measures, chemicals, foods, species, stars, earthquakes, ...)* implementing classic and innovative data-analyzing statistics for these data* creating enlightening and visually pleasing mathematical and data visualizations* maintaining and extending the framework for units, measures, and physical quantities to describe the properties of the physical world in a quantitative manner* handling natural language questions about the data and properties of the world* ensuring that the data can seamlessly used within the Wolfram Language in more complex calculations and visualizationsCreate and direct initiatives to make Wolfram|Alpha answer more questions from the natural sciences and advanced mathematics; and lead teams to realize these initiatives. And continuously improve the quality and scope of the answers to questions that Wolfram|Alpha can already answer. For a more programmatic use of scientific and other data, embed Wolfram|Alpha's computable knowledge into the Wolfram Language.Also responsible for analyzing the Wolfram|Alpha query stream and deriving appropriate conclusions from the questions and provided answers to grow the website's scope and usage.Also a member of the Wolfram Data Summit organizing committee, one of the first and most innovative yearly meetings devoted to Data.

Champaign, Il, Us

Plan, outline, organize, and supervise the realization of the content additions to Wolfram|Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com) in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, advanced math, and for units and measures.These additions enhanced W|A to be able to handle an ever-increasing breadth and structure of questions. As a result of recent additions, here are some sample queries that W|A can answer:- electric field of a moving point charge- gravitational potential of a massive cube- blue function and propagator for an harmonic oscillator in 1D- solar irradiance red light vs green light- distribution of luminances for HDTVs- price distribution of tablets- shape of a 3mm raindrop- how wet will I get running in the rain- what's the shaking frequency of a wet badger- Apple equation- American flag lamina- Obama curve- calories in a googol of egg yolks/calories in a cubic parsec of stout- convert 20 horsepowers in donkeypowers- Stefan-Boltzmann constant in 4dimensions- 300 millidarwins- integrate sin(cos(x)) from x = 1 to 2 using Simpson's method- find root of exp(-x) = log(x) using bisection using x1 = 1/2, x2 = 2- cooking time for a 24 lbs turkey- Wikipedia popularity Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Don KnuthAlso responsible for analyzing the Wolfram|Alpha query stream.(For some quantitative results, see:http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2012/10/19/the-numbers-of-wolframalpha/)

Champaign, Il, Us

Worked on the mathematics, physics, and units and measure backend if Wolfram|Alpha. Literally contributed from day one on Wolfram|Alpha and wrote the very first programs that power Wolfram|Alpha.Implemented a variety of mathematical algorithms and heuristics for Wolfram||Alpha, e.g. automatic plot range finding, inequality visualizations, differential equation solving, finding closed forms of real numbers, vector analysis, complex function visualizations, ... .. Such as- solve f(x)=f(1/x)- (integrate (x + y)^2 f(y) dy from y = 0 to pi) = sinx + f(x)- addition formulas trig functions- functional derivative integrate f(y)^2 dy from y = 0 to 1 wrt f(x)- express 2.222 through pi and pi!- BBP-type formulas for pi- integral representations of zeta(s) valid for Re(s) > 0- examples of complicated definite integrals with ln(x)- Riemann surface sqrt(z-cbrt(z))

Champaign, Il, Us

Collect and derive tens of thousands of identities for the special functions of mathematical physics. Generate innovative visualizations and posters of these functions.See the Wolfram Functions Site http://functions.wolfram.com/, e.g. http://functions.wolfram.com/ElementaryFunctions/ArcCos/27/ShowAll.html

Ph D, Theoretical Physics

Masters, Physics