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PhD

University of Vermont

Bachelor of the Arts, Liberal Arts

St. John's College, Santa Fe

Research Assistant

Vermont Complex Systems Center

• Used highly optimized tolerance as a model to quantify inequality in facility placement
• Applied meta heuristics like simulated annealing and evolutionary algorithms to develop robust facility placements under the threat of natural disasters

Post-Baccalaureate Researcher

Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos, New Mexico

• -Constructed a 10-ton liquid argon dark matter detector to search for sub-GeV dark matter -Developed and maintained code bases for critical environmental monitoring and control systems for over 30 devices -Implemented significant upgrades to the data acquisition system, dramatically increasing system stability and allowing for digitization of more 246 channels simultaneously with a throughput of 2GB/min

Data-Scientist

MITRE Corporation

• -Applied complex systems science to solve real world problems and develop deliverables for government sponsors -Co-developed Strategy Mining, an open-source genetic programming framework for agent-based models. -Contributed to three projects and co-authored 2 research papers,

Undergraduate Research Fellow

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

• -Conceived of and completed research project using natural language processing and machine learning to perform comparative analysis of the structure of philosophical treatises -Developed and implemented novel statistical models to analyze structure of texts through use of random walks -Authored two research papers currently in peer review, listed as first author on one

Undergraduate Researcher

Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM

• -Conducted independent research, employed natural language processing and machine learning to understand the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy

strategy mining

• Strategy Mining is a framework, based on Evolutionary Model Discovery (EMD), to evolve and evaluate sets of plausible characteristics and behavior rules that drive the behavior of entities of interest.

• Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship(SULI) Grant[US Department of Energy]
• Dean’s Award for College Service[St. John's College]

• Robert Neidorf Memorial Scholarship for Academic Excellence[St. John's College]

• Award for Relating Intense Education to Life(ARIEL) Grant 2017