Experience

Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA)

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Scientist

  • May 2020 - Present



Kaiser Permanente

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Scientist

  • Mar 2019 - May 2020



OpenX

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Data Scientist

  • Feb 2017 - Mar 2019



California Institute of Technology

• Pasadena, CA

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Sep 2014 - Jan 2017

  Developed the open source TTVFaster code in C. This algorithm is on the order of 10,000 times faster than conventional methods, allowing for the analysis of large data sets. Coupled the TTVFaster code with code I wrote employing a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm, and applied this package to time series data of exoplanets in order to extract information in a robust manner. Continued to strengthen my communication skills through delivering invited research presentations and by writing scientific papers subsequently published in academic journals. Characterized nonlinear behavior of dynamical systems, that included the effects of dissipation, using analytic methods as well as via computational integrations. Show less



Los Angeles City College

• Greater Los Angeles Area

• Adjunct Professor of Physics

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

  Created and delivered lectures with demonstrations for a conceptual physics course offered to high schoolers through the community college. Developed and graded worksheets, homework assignments, and exams for the course. Created and delivered lectures with demonstrations for a conceptual physics course offered to high schoolers through the community college. Developed and graded worksheets, homework assignments, and exams for the course.



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • 2009 - 2014

  Developed code in C to integrate the orbits of planets forward in time; our algorithm is significantly faster and more accurately represents real orbits compared with standard integrators. Developed code in C to integrate the "tangent equations of motion", which can be used to determine if orbits are chaotic or regular. Developed the open source code TTVFast in C to determine the transit times of planets in interacting systems. This algorithm is on the order of 20x faster than standard methods. This code is a precursor to TTVFaster (developed in my postdoc). Modeled transit times of real systems using Levenberg-Marquardt, nested sampling, and MCMC methods. Performed Bayesian model comparison. Developed excellent communication skills by creating and delivering dozens of contributed and invited research presentations, including to the general public, and by writing scientific papers subsequently published in academic journals. Developed strong analytic and computational skills for analyzing complex nonlinear systems. Show less