The following links host my updated Resume and CV.

Technical Skills

I am experienced with:

  • Data analysis, in particular big data, statistics, deconvolution, modeling & simulation

  • Python, C, C++ programming

  • Machine learning (PyTorch, scikit-learn, TensorFlow)

  • Scientific computing (NumPy, SciPy, pandas, PyOpenCL)

  • Distributed and parallel computing (AWS, SLURM, PBS, HTCondor)

  • Data visualization (matplotlib, Plotly Dash, PyOpenGL)

  • Version control systems (Git, SVN)

  • Public speaking, mentoring, and leadership roles

Education

PhD, Physics
University of Wisconsin—Madison

BS, Chemical Physics
Rice University

Languages Spoken

English, Español (Native)
Français (Working Proficiency),
Ελληνικα (ενα λιγο, i.e. basic)

Selected Articles

“DeepFake Detection Challenge Part II”
IQT, In-Q-Tel, 7 July, 2021, Article link

“DeepFake Detection Challenge”
IQT, In-Q-Tel, 21 June, 2021, Article link

“What AI Can and Cannot Do for the Intelligence Community”
Defense One, Defense One, 5 Jan., 2021, Article link

“Why IQT made the COVID-19 Diagnostic Accuracy Dash App.”
Modern Data, Modern.Data, 27 August, 2020, Article link

“Learning to Run a Power Network Challenge.”
Gab41, IQT Labs, 4 May, 2020, Article link

Selected Presentations

“Approaches for Multi-modal Synthetic Media Detection”
Invited talk at Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition, 49th IEEE AIPR 2020.
Online info

“Operationalize COVID-19 Statistics with Dash - Featuring IQT’s COVID-19 Diagnostic Accuary Tool”
Invited Webinar Talk for Plotly Dash.
Webinar link

“PyUnfold: the Python Package for Iterative Unfolding”
Talk at IIHE, ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Slides

“Overview of Semi-Supervised Classification with GCNs”
Invited talk at ML6, Ghent, Belgium.
Slides

“Introduction to Machine Learning Workshop”
Lecture & Keras Workshop at IIHE, ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Slides

Honors and Awards

BAEF and WBI Postdoctoral Fellowships

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Fulbright Research Fellowship
See my blogpost regarding my Fulbright research experience.

MMUF Undergraduate Fellowship

Selected Publications

Below is a list of the publications for which I am a major contributor.

Localizing Radio Frequency Targets Using Reinforcement Learning
2021 IEEE ROSE Conference, 2021. IEEE Publication

Multimodal Approach for DeepFake Detection
49th Annual IEEE AIPR 2020. IEEE Proceeding

L2RPN: Learning to Run a Power Network in a Sustainable World
NeurIPS 2020 White Paper. ChaLearn

Cosmic Ray Observations at the TeV Scale with the HAWC Observatory
I.e. my PhD thesis.

Observation of Anisotropy of TeV Cosmic Rays with Two Years of HAWC
Astrophys. J. 865, 57 (2018). arXiv:1805.01847
Official press release

PyUnfold: A Python Package for Iterative Unfolding
Journal of Open Source Software 3(26), 741 (2018). arXiv:1806.03350

Constraining the \(\bar{p}/p\) Ratio in TeV Cosmic Rays with the Moon Shadow
Phys. Rev. D 97, 102005 (2018). arXiv:1802.08913

The All Particle Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum Measured by the HAWC Experiment from 10 to 500 TeV
Phys. Rev. D 96, 122001 (2017). (Editor’s Suggestion) arXiv:1710.00890
Official press release

All-Particle and Light-Component Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum Measured by the HAWC Experiment
PoS: Proceedings of the 35th ICRC (Busan), 2017. arXiv:1801.05526

Towards a Measurement of the \(e^{+}e^{-}\) Flux Above 1 TeV with HAWC
PoS: Proceedings of the 34th ICRC (The Hague), 2015. arXiv:1508.03466