Web Development: HTML5/CSS3, d3.js, web2py, Pelican
Experience
Data Scientist, Upwork (part-time) (2017-2018)
Built machine learning models in Python to inform business decisions like "How long should we leave jobs open before expiring?" and "Should this job be moved to the US-only marketplace?"
Identified two major data leaks in a pre-existing model that impacted runtime accuracy.
Provided insights on how client and freelancer behavior evolves during the lifetime of a job post by ingesting data from PostgreSQL and performing cleaning/analysis in Python.
Created reports/presentations to communicate insights to both technical and non-technical staff.
Freelance Data Scientist (2017-2019)
Assisted a client with MCMC Bayesian parameter estimation using PyMC and corresponding visualizations for experimental chemistry data; results contributed to a published paper.
Enabled a client to analyze patterns in financial transactions by building a Python module to aggregate data, create summary statistics and visualizations, and automatically email reports.
Provided a client with insights on user behavior for a nutrition/workout tracking mobile app by performing data cleaning, exploratory analysis and PCA with clustering.
Graduate Researcher, Yale University (2012-2018)
Designed and executed experiments in 3 main projects, all resulting in publications.
Performed simulation and data analysis with Python, MATLAB, and C++.
Improved documentation and training for lab protocols, and maintained the internal lab wiki and Unix server.
Trained and managed 4 undergraduate assistants, resulting in successful senior projects.
Medical College Admission Test Instructor, Kaplan Test Prep (2011-2012)
Planned and delivered lectures on undergraduate Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
Education
Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Yale University (2012-2018)
Six publications (three first-author [1][2][3]), coursework in physics, engineering, and statistics.
B.S. in Physics, Indiana University (2008-2011)
Baccalaureate with Departmental Honors and Highest Distinction, 3.98/4.0 GPA
Designed and built a web application using Web2Py framework and d3.js that displays the social graph for a user on www.boardgamegeek.com and colors nodes by correlation to the user as computed from boardgame ratings. Data was collected by a combination of web scraping and API querying and stored as a sqlite database.
Designed and built a personal website for hosting useful technical articles using HTML/CSS and GitHub Pages. Authored a series of educational posts on various programming and data science topics using Jupyter Notebooks and Pelican page generator.