Education
- B.S. in Physics, MIT, 2014
- Ph.D in Astronomy & Statistics, UC Santa Cruz, 2019
Work experience
2019 - : Data and Applied Scientist — Microsoft
- 2014-2019: NSF Graduate Research Fellow — UCSC
- 2019: Adapted one-by-one convolutions to extend networks pretrained on 3-band (RGB) images to arbitrarily many bands
- 2018: Developed conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) to create synthetic galaxy images to augment training of other neural networks (tensorflow)
- 2017: Built image classifier using Convolutional Neural Networks and Random Forests to identify dwarf galaxies (Python, keras)
- 2016: Published Bayesian statistic analysis of supernova simulations
- 2015: Extended distributed software for simulating supernovae (C/C++) which scales well to at least 1000 cores and has run for over 250,000 CPU hours
- Summer 2018: Data Science Intern — Microsoft
- Building unsupervised deep learning models to identify the key differences between natural language corpora (tensorflow)
- Designing interpretable, online models to predict future search volume (scikit-learn)
- Summer 2017: Data Science Intern — LendUp (consumer lending startup)
- Predicted risk of credit card applicants using statistical modeling (Python, SQL)
- Engineered new features to extract insights from previously unused data
- Performed exploratory data analysis to support new product development
- Identified and created ETL solutions for the unmet needs of other teams
- 2013 - 2014: Undergraduate Researcher — MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics
- Discovered and published faint signals of a galactic jet in noisy imaging data (Python)
- Summer 2013: Visiting Research Fellow — Universität Heidelberg
- Extended and optimized data pipeline to detect trace atmospheric gases
Tools
Python, tensorflow, keras, pytorch, C++/C, SQL, R, scikit-learn
Selected Awards
2016-2019: NSF Graduate Research Fellow
- $138,000 award supporting my PhD research; 2,000 fellows selected from 17,000 applicants
2015-2018: Osterbrock Prize Leadership Fellow (UC Santa Cruz)
- $5,000 award with continued mentoring to develop technical leadership skills