Robert V. Gramillano Email & Phone Number

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Working virtually in Professor Jeff Filippini’s cosmology group in the physics department analyzing data taken from the sub-orbital, cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter SPIDER.
• Characterized cosmic ray events seen by the SPIDER detectors.
• Modeled the cosmic ray energy spectra to aid the SPIDER collaboration in telescope design and limit contamination.
• Gained experience with the extract, transform, load (ETL) process in a research context.
• Gained experience with a variety of modeling and statistical techniques, such as multivariate regression, correlation, and distributions, in Python with the Numpy, Scipy, and Pandas modules all within the Linux.
• Produced several plots involving cosmic ray analysis to be used in future SPIDER publications.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Working virtually with Matias Carrasco Kind on large-scale, dark-matter-only cosmological simulations.
• Identified dark-matter halos found in the simulations using various techniques such as FOF and HOP, computed halo mass functions, and created animations visualizing large-scale structure with matplotlib.
• Gained experience with cluster computing techniques to process large data sets in parallel.
• Wrote algorithms to identify the bounds of dark matter halos and set limits on large-scale structure
• Co-wrote an accepted proposal for 50,000 node-hours (with an estimated value of $31,000) on NCSA’s Blue Waters resource for a cosmological simulation that will run from 13.7 billion years in the past to 70 billion.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

• Worked with Professor Joaquin Vieira’s observational cosmology group in the astronomy department at UIUC (http://obscos.astro.illinois.edu/).
• Research focused on identifying gravitationally lensed sources by cross matching multi-wavelength data from DES, the South Pole Telescope (SPT) and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and applying a variety.
• Produced a list of candidate lensed galaxy to be further investigated.
• Gained experience with processing large, astronomical surveys with Python. Wrote complex scripts for cross matching positions of galaxies from different astronomical catalogs.
• Wrote a senior thesis, made a poster and presented this research during the Fall 2015 semester, which resulted in co-authorship of a journal article (Nord, B., Buckley-Geer, E., Lin, H., et al. 2016, ApJ, 827, 51).

Data Science Career Track

Completed Springboard’s Data Science Career track to further improve my skills in data wrangling, big data, deep learning, SQL, Python.

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics & Astronomy, Graduated, Gpa: 3.70

Activities and Societies: Astronomical Society (UIAS)Bachelor of Science in physics and astronomy, both with distinction. Edmund James.

High School

Activities and Societies: Technical Theater, Scholastic Bowl, Mathletes, Thespian Society, Computer ClubGraduated 17 out of 713 in my class