CURRICULUM VITAE

As of Spring 2018

OWEN CHAMBERLAIN POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California
June 2017 - present

Leading studies of data quality with Jupyter notebooks to explore 3+ years of multi-channel data from ~120 sensors and develop cuts to remove false positive signals
Making projections for the signal sensitivity of a future experiment by varying veto system efficiency and quantifying the impact on background PDFs that are used in a profile-likelihood analysis
Delivering tutorials each semester to introduce new collaboration members to data analysis and visualization in Jupyter notebooks, getting new members up to speed with current analyses in days, instead of weeks or months

Yale University
New Haven, CT
August 2011 - May 2017

Successfully defended dissertation titled Rare-event searches in liquid xenon with the LUX and LUX-ZEPLIN detectors in May 2017
Used calibration data sets to calculate the detection efficiency of the LUX detector. My work accounted for temporally and spatially varying detector conditions, and made possible a world-leading physics result, placing new constraints on the possible characteristics of dark matter particles.
Improved algorithm in C++ code to filter TB-scale volume of data for candidate signal events, making data more easily accessed and analyzed by ~100 collaborators
Supervised undergraduate research students on data analysis projects, including one on the identification of overlapping signal pulses in raw waveforms with a fitting algorithm developed in Python

Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio
August 2007 - May 2011

Graduated summa cum laude with a major in Physics and a minor in Mathematics.
Received High Honors for my senior thesis titled Evidence of Staggered Inflation in the Cosmic Microwave Background with mentorship from Prof. Tom Giblin.

Earned in the past 5 years

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