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Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Technical lead for engagement counting at YouTube, focusing on serving freshness, consistency across user and Creator surfaces, and accuracy of user-facing and dimensional Creator-facing data. Heavily involved in data pipelines.• Led multiple sensitive count-affecting projects, particularly in subscriber counting and comment counting.• Designed set-comparison tool using MinHash and an original complementary algorithm for privacy protection against differential SQL attacks in a customer-facing ads data product.• Designed simulation to find optimal ad-throttling score, balancing brand lift (a type of survey lift) with view-through rate (VTR). Performed statistical analysis.• Currently working in C++; have previously worked in Java and Go.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Coded in Mathematica's Wolfram Language to perform state-of-the-art computations via parallel processes to directly determine ultraviolet behavior of gravity theories through four loops.• Wrote code for memory-intensive processes with optimization inspired by both physics and code-design techniques to perform computations that were, even recently, considered unachievable.• With collaborators, showed that supergravity amplitudes that were generally expected to be ultraviolet divergent are in fact ultraviolet finite, a result that remains unexplained by standard arguments.• Published original research papers in academic journals.• Publications: 12 (list below), Citations: 200+.• Gave technical talks at international conferences and seminars.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Received UCLA Physics and Astronomy Outstanding Teaching Award.• Gave lectures in upper- and lower-division undergraduate physics courses in classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, optics, waves, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics.• Wrote exam and homework solutions.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• "Zeroth-year" research position prior to start of graduate coursework.• Found fundamental flaws due to thermal excitation in proposed plasma centrifuge for separating xenon and argon isotopes, thereby avoiding the construction of a potentially costly failed device.• Used SOLIDWORKS CAD software for design of experimental devices.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Built and maintained tool in VBA for pricing, risk management, and securitization of mortgages.• In team of 2-3, bought, securitized, and sold over $100 billion in mortgage loans using VBA tool.• Managed risk and hedged large position of loans in volatile market conditions using mortgage securities and interest rate swaps.• Produced daily reports of hedge performance and desk profit and loss.• Proposed and implemented new securitization techniques increasing the profit on the purchase and sale of a loan by as much as 0.4% of the loan value.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• 10-week internship that led to hire as full-time securities trader.• Developed predictive mortgage prepayment model using regression analysis that had quantifiable improvement over previous model and went into production.• Used Perl to produce daily model reports for trading desk use.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Interfaced a RAID system, a Macintosh G5 Server, and a tape autoloader for real-time radar-data collection for terrain mapping.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

• Organized, debugged, and rewrote C++ code to be used for data analysis for particle collisions in the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics

Bachelor'S Degree, Applied Physics And Economics