Rachael Creager Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Machine Learning Platforms TeamML Platforms (part of AI team) manages the AI team’s infrastructure and data storage/manipulation workflows.– Scoped and provisioned all of AI team’s infrastructure via Terraform for new EU data center ahead of schedule. Worked with cross-team stakeholders to understand and prioritize their needs. Performed opportunistic improvements, such as user provisioning via SCIM and security improvements to Databricks.– Designed and implemented GitOps continuous deployment framework for AI team’s compute resources on Databricks using Github Actions and Scala. Prepared RFC to gather feedback. Communicated with ML Platforms, Data Science, and SRE teams to deliver lean solution that satisfies all teams’ needs.– Utilized Databricks Change Data Feed to capture row-level changes in Spark structured streaming, avoiding costly file reprocessing for updated/deleted data. Wrote thorough integration tests to avoid data corruption.– Proposed and led intern project to create configurable data synthesis framework. Collaborated with data scientists to add features such as non-IID columns and rows, custom generators, and type validation.

San Francisco, California, Us

AI Team (Data Science & Machine Learning)– Proposed and led intern project to build and test Dockerized Databricks clusters using Github Actions. Provisioned required infrastructure including AWS IAM user/role and CodeBuild service.– Deployed self-hosted Github Actions Runner within Docker image as Kubernetes deployment using Helm.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Artificial Intelligence Fellow- Developed HideFace, a module for testing privacy filters against black-box facial recognition tools - Created a flexible testing framework to evalute the effect of applying adversarial attacks to images - Served tools on Github and as Docker image for research and facial recognition robustness testing

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

PhD in Experimental Particle Physics (Large Hadron Collider at CERN). Research completed as a member of the ATLAS collaboration, an organization of about 3,000 physicists. * Algorithm Performance EvaluationCalibrated BDT classification tools to validate simulated performance with data- Developed performance monitoring tools for object classifier to validate performance in unlabeled data - Engineered and extracted features for use in numerical maximum-likelihood estimation fit- Managed team’s data pipelines (batch processing with HTCondor, ∼50-100k subtasks, ∼TB datasets)* Data OperationsDeveloped and maintained continuously-integrated and -tested sample production tools for ∼30 expert users and several hundred casual users– Made major updates (CMT to CMake, SVN to git) to team’s tools (∼2k lines) within physics analysis codebase (∼75k lines, 50 major libraries, 25 sample production sub-libraries), improving production time– Decreased sample sizes by over 50% without loss of functionality to expedite sample production/processing and optimize disk space usage in response to budgetary concerns– Collaborated with students, postdocs, and professors to integrate new features and produce samples for testing and analysis** Advisor: Prof. Joe Kroll** Thesis Analysis Project: Fully-hadronic electroweak SUSY search- Monte Carlo signal sample production (higgsino vs wino models)- Signal region definition and sensitivity testing- Reinterpretation of results within other SUSY models

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Planned and lead monthly activities (discussions, reading groups, speakers, etc) for department with +100 graduate students. - Organized faculty and students to petition the School of Arts and Sciences to provide gender-inclusivebathrooms in physics department; ∼$100k budgeted for requested ugrades at next annual budget review.- Worked with facilities to add baby-changing tables, additional signage, and ID-scanning doors to existing gender inclusive bathrooms- Designed graduate climate exit survey (approved for distribution by department Graduate Chair) with Qualtrics. Reviewed survey with Office of Audit, Compliance, and Privacy to ensure student privacy and security.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Helped plan, advertise, and run a discussion panel focused on graduate education for autistic students.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

- Lead data science education, projects, and recruitment efforts for 100+ students- Personal focus on improving PhD pipelines into industry

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

- Planned PDSG’s Journal Club, a biweekly student-lead discussion of current ML research papers- Organized a EULA (End User License Agreement) I2 Contract between Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and UPenn - Served as “Cloud for Students” Working Group contact with university IT and technical staff- Coordinated billing account administration between multiple university offices in order to receive $10k in GCP credits for PDSG projects

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Decided to leave Notre Dame early to participate in the Semester Research Experience through University of Michigan at CERN (Center for European Nuclear Research). Worked with SUNY Stony Brooke group on Monte Carlo validation and optimization.

Notre Dame, In, Us

I served as the teaching assistant and grader for Honors Calculus I, the first real analysis course in the pure mathematics program at Notre Dame. I ran help sessions for homework and exam every week and provided additional support via email.

Notre Dame, In, Us

The Digital Visualization Theater is a planetarium-style 3D projection theater. Using a scripting-based interface, the theater can be used to display and manipulate 3-dimensional objects in space over time.I worked as both a systems operator and as a data manager and content creator.For example, I taught myself Python to develop an exoplanet program. My program parses massive NASA exoplanet data sets, determines how well the position of each planet is known, and adds the planet to the theater with appropriate visuals while throwing errors when necessary.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, Us

Selected for the 2013 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates at CERN (Center for European Nuclear Research) through University of MichiganAttended the CERN Summer Student Lecture Series (both technical and theoretical) and worked with SUNY Stony Brooke research group (advisor: Prof. Dmitri Tsybychev)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Physics

Master Of Science (M.S.), Physics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics