In brief...

Data enthusiast with a strong background in math, science and programming. I just finished my PhD in Applied Physics at Yale, where I worked on data science and python fu in my spare time. I am currently on maternity leave with my son! Email me any time, or find me on linked in or github. Here is my resume.

compulsive optimizer (I can make 2 weeks worth of breakfast in 6 min. 26 sec.)

self starter (You kind of have to be to survive a PhD.)

frugal minimalist (There are three spoons in my household of two people.)

non-conformer (I'm not on facebook. Me and that one other guy are going to start our own club.)

I have one lovely husband, two bachelors degrees, and three aforementioned spoons.

Trajectory...

Born and raised in St. Johnsbury Vermont.

Went to undergrad in Louisiana to escape the cold.

Followed my husband to Indiana and learned to be a teacher.

Discovered that doing physics is much more fun than teaching physics.

Moved to Connecticut to get a PhD in applied physics. Also, cold again.

I want to continue solving quantitative problems now that I've finished my PhD.

Quantitative skills...

My undergrad and graduate programs in physics give me a solid foundation in math and I also flatter myself that they've made me a more logical and careful thinker. I do a lot of coding for simulation and data analysis in my research. Also I just like programming, full stop. Python is my language of choice, I got started at codeacademy.com and can highly recommend their intro course. I used MATLAB for all of my data analysis and visualization for my PhD research for four years before migrating to Python. I code all my instrument control and data acquisition routines in C++. For fun I started learning HTML / CSS / SASS and made this website! For an intro I used the lovely marksheet.io tutorial. I try to keep some coding projects up on my github.

Here's a breakdown of my coursework and coding background:

math physics code & markup
  • Calculus
  • Linear Algebra
  • Discrete Math
  • Probability and Statistics
  • Differential Equations
  • Complex Analysis
  • Graduate Electricity and Magnetism
  • Graduate Quantum Mechanics
  • Graduate Statistical Mechanics
  • Graduate Solid State Physics
  • Classical Mechanics
  • Mathematical Methods in Physics
  • Python skilled
  • Matlab skilled
  • C++ proficient
  • LaTeX proficient
  • Git proficient
  • R noob
  • HTML, CSS, SASS noob

Other things...

A place where I can put other random things.

Collected Riddles (in the Dark)

I collect riddles and keep them together with their solutions in a google doc. This makes me a very cool person and not at all a nerd. Most of the riddles tend to be math-y, some are more word play. If you know some good ones send them to me!

Cliffnotes to Sam's Teach Yourself C++

I used a good chunk of the book Sam's Teach Yourself C++ in One Hour a Day to learn the underpinnings of C++ in order to code our instrument control and data acquisition system for my PhD research. I collected my notes on the lesson from the book into a pdf. I used the minted package for Latex to do syntx highlighting of C++ snippets. The result was that now I kind of hate both C++ and LaTex, very efficient.