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Solid training in technical and analytical skills from solving data-intensive astronomical research problems.◎ Programming: Over 8 years of experience in using Python and Python-based frameworks to develop scientific packages and web applications. Wrote pipelines to parse and analyze data streams with a combination of Bash, Python, and SQL. ◎ Data analysis: Utilized ML and statistical approaches to model time-series data and infer physical properties with uncertainties using analysis packages SciPy, NumPy, scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow and pandas. Used seaborn, Bokeh, and Plotly for visualization. ◎ Leadership & Project management:   ▻ Principal Investigator of 4 federal funded observing programs (grants totalling $175k) that involve ~15 international scientists. Responsibilities include writing the proposals, planning and obtaining observations, delegating data analysis tasks, and organizing results into journal-style papers.  ▻ Mentored undergraduate and graduate students through research projects, guiding them in data analysis, interpreting and presenting results, and publishing findings in scientific journals.  ▻ First-authored 7, co-authored 30+ peer-reviewed publications w/ 5000+ citations.◎ Professional services:  ▻ Presented at 5 international conferences in astrophysics as invited speaker.   ▻ Served on NASA proposal review panels since 2018.   ▻ Refereed articles for distinguished journals (ApJ, MNRAS, Nature Comm.).