Resume

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA

Ph.D. in Computational Science & Engineering
Fall 2024 - Present

Home Unit: Aerospace Engineering
Advisor: Elizabeth Qian, Ph.D.
Awards: MSA Fellowship Award Recipient, GTA Funding

Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, VA

B.S. in Computational Modeling & Data Analytics
Fall 2019 - May 2023

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2019 - May 2023

Awards: Summa Cum Laude, Honors Laurate Diploma, Merit Scholarships, Creative-Writing Competition Finalist

Graduate Coursework

CSE 6243: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning
ME 6401: Linear Control Theory
CSE 6730: Modeling & Simulation
CSE 6740: Computational Data Analytics
CSE 6140: Discrete Algorithms
CSE 8803: Data-Science for Epidemiology
CSE 6242: Data and Visual Analytics
ISYE 6416: Computational Statistics
ISYE 6669: Deterministic Optimization
ISYE 6402: Time-Series Analysis
MGT 8803: Intro. to Business for Analytics
MGT 6203: Data Analytics for Business

Experience

Georgia Institute of Technology

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2023 - Present, Atlanta, GA

AE 4803: Foundations of Scientific Machine Learning
Assisted Professor Elizabeth Qian with curriculum development, instruction, course administration, grading, and assessment.

CSE 6040: Computing for Data Analytics
Held live-coding demonstrations and office hours, answered questions, debugged code, and assited with exam development.

Cox Communications

Graduate Data Science Intern
Summer 2024, Atlanta, GA

Leveraged techniques in Natural Language Processing, Time-Series Analysis, and data mining with AWS (Sagemaker, Athena, SQL) to uncover novel insights into how outbound SMS notifications drive digital interactions.

NAVSEA Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

Optimal Shock Damping for Improved Controllability of Antenna Test Fixture
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023, Blacksburg, VA

Technical lead in specialized team to design and manufacture novel vibration equipment to simulate shock pulses. Achieved ~400% damping improvement and reduced cost by 80% compared to previous testing

VT Department of Agriculture & Applied Economics

Data-Science Intern
Spring 2022 - Fall 2022, Blacksburg, VA

Developed software to survey conservation agriculture, oversaw the maintenance and storage of data, and worked in R and Python to conduct statistics, data analytics, and data visualization.

VT Student Athletic Academic Support Services

Math Lecturer, Tutor
Fall 2019 - Spring 2022, Blacksburg, VA

Earned highest paid undergraduate position at Virginia Tech through calculus lectures. Improved student grades by 20-30% on average and attended workshops to improve teaching.

Skills & Certifications

Engineering

Certification: Fundamentals of Engineering (FE Mechanical)
Concepts: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Finite-Element Analysis, CAD, Controls
Software: Ansys, Solidworks, MATLAB, NX

Data-Science

Concepts: Machine Learning, Statistics, Inference, Natural Language Processing, Time Series Analysis, High-Performance Computing, Linear Algebra, Probability, Neural Networks, Kernel Methods
Software: Python (PySpark, PyTorch, Jax, Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Dask), R, Tableau, SQL, MATLAB, Julia, Java, C/C++, Git, Linux

Languages

English: Native Language
Spanish: Conversationally fluent