Tristan Hillis Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego

I work alongside Instructional Technology Services (ITS) as a data scientist at SDSU to help inform on our student body as they go through their undergraduate career.In this position, I started from ground zero on our student data formalizing questions with my boss with her experience in education, our industry partner, and my expertise in data science. We.

San Diego, California, United States

• Work with mentor and PhD in statistics department developing R package for CRAN
• Enhancing observational matching algorithm to handle missing data using random forestAs a graduate student I implemented a portion of an R package slated for CRAN. This package finds matching subjects across control.

New Mexico

I help Dr. Benjamin Williams with Astronomy research topics that cover star formation histories in nearby galaxies. Previously, I explored the outer-disk star formation in NGC 300 which culminated in a paper ("Isolating the young stellar population in the outer disk of NGC 300") published in the reputable Astrophysical Journal. Currently, I am working on.

Greater Seattle Area

I continue to spend some of my free time developing a graphical user interface (GUI). I have built, from scratch, the back and front ends connecting UW Astronomy students to a ~$35,000 Andor iKon-M 934 scientific camera attached to a 30-inch teaching telescope. We have launched the software and it is now in full use.Check the link to see the GitHub.

I teach class sections, that coincide with lectures, twice a week for 2 groups of ~30 students for one hour each. Classes I have been a TA for (per quarter), are Astronomy 101 and 150. 101 touches on all of Astronomy in a qualitative manner from the motions of the sky to Cosmology. Meanwhile, 150 covers the planets in our solar system that include their.

Master'S Degree, Computational Science - Data Science Emphasis

Activities and Societies: Astronomy Society, Hall Council LeaderI intend to learn skills applicable to data science, which include machine.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Astronomy And Physics, 3.51/4.0

Activities and Societies: Member of the Astronomy Undergraduate Engineering Group (AUEG)On my way to a degree in Astronomy and Physics, I.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences, 3.46/4.0

During high school I took advantage of Washington's Running Start program. In this program, a student can either attend a local community.