Wendy Hawley Carande, Phd Email & Phone Number

Longmont, Co, Us

Westminster, Colorado, United States

I am the manager of the Navigation Systems team at Maxar Technologies. Navigation Systems is responsible for orbit determination, orbit maintenance, and collision avoidance for Maxar’s satellite constellation.For the WorldView Legion program, I serve as an Incident Commander. My role is to lead the anomaly review board for issues that arise during launch and early operations.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Managed a team of professional software engineers. Oversaw hiring, hosted status meetings, supported professional development plans, tracked project status and progress, supervised complex technical projects.• Science Data Center Lead and Data Processing Lead Software Engineer for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). Led a team of software engineers to develop AWS cloud-based science data processing pipelines in Python for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe. Served as an interface between software engineers and instrument teams.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Led the Boulder Solar Alliance Research Experience for Undergraduates program. I coordinated summer research projects, professional development resources, and outreach events for 15-20 students and 40 mentors across Boulder each year.• Managed budgets, created and reviewed student and mentor applications, submitted NSF reports, coordinated student conference travel, maintained the public website, and formed collaborations between BSA partner institutes.

Boulder, Co

• Supervised students on data science projects including: solar flare forecasting using deep learning models including LSTM, solar magnetogram data augmentation using Generative Adversarial Networks, Explainable Artificial Intelligence for solar flare forecasting using LIME, and anomaly detection in earth-based magnetic field data.• Technical Lead on a project to develop a machine learning algorithm for anomaly detection in Earth observations (including the use of Principal Component Analysis, statistical analysis, DBSCAN clustering, and deep learning classification).• Created a Random Forest regression model to identify gravity waves in AIM CIPS data, including the extraction of image texture features using OpenCV.• Developer of a product to convert spacecraft data from L1A to L1C in Python.

• Led a consulting project for a startup company to identify high-quality teaching applicants based on behavioral cues in teaching sample videos.• Created a data pipeline to retrieve and process videos from YouTube using Python.• Implemented a clustering algorithm to identify the percentage of time a teacher was talkingduring a teaching sample video.• Provided actionable insights for the company to build a more comprehensive teaching applicant assessment algorithm.

Boulder, Co

• Developed machine learning algorithms in Python and R to predict the critical properties of 900+ pure compounds using support vector regression and ensemble methods.• Presided over the Postdoctoral Association, which provided career guidance, mentoring resources, and networking opportunities for postdoctoral fellows.

Tempe, Az

• Simulated 3D white dwarf collisions using the FLASH hydrodynamics code (Fortran).• Created data analysis pipelines (in Python) for the simulation, and produced 3D visualizations (in Python and VisIt).• Awarded 2 million service units on the Texas Ranger supercomputer from a successful NSF proposal.• Conducted undergraduate lab courses covering a wide array of topics in astronomy and space sciences.• Completed project-based courses in astronomical instrumentation, image calibration, and remote sensing.• Implemented image processing pipelines in IDL and IRAF for satellite and astronomical data projects.

Master'S Degree, Engineering Management

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Astrophysics

Bachelor’S Degree, Astrophysics

Activities and Societies: Sigma Xi, Resident Advisor, WLBTF