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Collaborate with Ames National Laboratory and Dr. Liyi Li on Quantum Computing projects in research topics (but not limited to) in Quantum Hamiltonian Simulation and Quantum Programming Language. We utilize novel and efficient approaches to functional programming language and compilers design that help communicate quantum information in Many-body Chemical quantum systems. Mathematical methodologies such as Category Theory and Group Theory as well as Functional Programming language are heavily utilized. One of the application goals is to integrate the programming languages and compilers into software engineering and testing principles to practically help solve quantum chemistry problems.

Ames, Iowa, United States

Research Assistant at the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory Iowa State University

Teaching Assistant for HCI 574: Computational Implementation & Prototyping in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) with supervision of Dr. Chris HardingHelp Graduate HCI students with assignments and concepts. Grade and provide feedbacks on the assignments

Kirksville, Missouri, United States

Fully funded TruScholars project collaboration with Dr. David Garth on a problem of appending digits to generate composite sequences. We successfully mapped out and found the pattern of primes and whether we can find potential seed values where the generated sequences are always composite. We then designed scripts using Pari-GP (a computer algebra system) utilizing the number theory package pari-gp in Linux to provide empirical evidence for our hypothesis and in-theory patterns.We successfully constructed a mathematical proof utilizing knowledge in number theory such as covering, Chinese Remainder’s Theorem and programming (shell scripting) to find a valid rigorously proven seed valueKey achievement: The research result is selected to be presented at Truman State Fall Colloquium for Undergraduate Research and Mathematics Association of America Research Presentation

Teaching Assistant for Calculus I and II

Kirksville, Missouri, United States

Teaching Assistant for Foundations of Computer Science I (Python and C++ programming languages)

Kirksville, Missouri, United States

I collaborated with Dr. Don Bindner on calibration and fabrication of biomedical models. We successfully designed Python scripts that improve models with a communicating socket so each model can communicate with others and send feedback to the testing server. We also conducted calibration and fabrication of biomedical models (such as pelvis FF303 or lumbar models) for the A.T Still Medical and Physician Training Lab.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Successfully published a research paper with the Intelligent Systems Security Lab (ISSECLAB) team at University of Dayton that implement a browser-based tool for web users to protect their privacy such as search history from targeted advertisement. We wrote scripts in JavaScript to monitor the behaviors of background code embedded within a webpage. We designed testing programs for the detection of all potential personal information leakage channels, advancing the convention of the same-origin policy, and enforcing different policies for each source of codeWe also implemented a proof-of-concept prototype and perform practical evaluations to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. Our experimental results evidence that the proposed method can detect and prevent data leakage channels not captured by the leading tools such as Ghostery and uBlock Origin.

I collaborated with Dr. Michael Adams in a combinatorial counting problem based on the configuration of electrons in binary spin states, which has further application in physics problems. We wrote a counting program in Python and C++ to find out patterns in the combinatorial coefficient. We also utilized knowledge in Graph Theory, Generating Functions, and CombinatoricsKey achievement: Some of our results are being written and pending publication

Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics

Thesis: Repeatedly Appending Digits Alternately to a Seed Value in Base 3 to Generate an Infinite Sequence of Composite Numbers Minors.

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