Data Assistant

Joshua B. Braverman

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Physics Ph.D. candidate with advanced quantitative and statistical skills, sophisticated critical thinking abilities and

programming experience on state of the art applied applications. Experience working with large data sets, writing

and debugging original code and applying advanced mathematics and statistics to complex problems.

EDUCATION

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Ph.D., Physics October 2014

• Built a nuclear source imaging system using never before implemented nuclear detection technology.

Designed and programmed various projects in VB.Net, C++ and other languages to do a wide array of

jobs including simulations of complex physical systems, data collection, parsing and analysis, statistical

analysis of large data sets and sophisticated data visualization applications.

• GPA 3.53/4.0

Master of Science, Physics August 2012

• GPA 3.50/4.0

University of Colorado at Boulder May 2010

Bachelor of Arts, Physics

Bachelor of Arts, English Literature

EXPERIENCE

Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Nuclear Security and Isotope Technology Division Oak Ridge,TN

Graduate Research Assistant August 2011-Present

• Built a software application to read an updating stream of data and use advanced nuclear imaging concepts

to localize nuclear interactions. Application contained advanced data parsing and analysis routines,

mathematical, computational and statistical processes and data visualization methods updating in real time

• Built a software application that moved a nuclear source autonomously over a nuclear detector array

• Designed and programmed a gamma-ray phase shift imager simulation that simulated 20 million photons

launched into complex optical system. Application included programming advanced numerical methods

University of Colorado Physics Department Boulder, CO

Undergraduate Research Assistant April 2009 – May 2010

• Worked on experiment at Fermi National Laboratory studying quark matter

• Wrote a software application to calculate parameters for selecting material to be used in particle detectors

• Designed, built and programmed a gas alarm and detection system

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Visual Basic (VB.Net), C++, GnuPlot, ROOT Cern Plotting Tools, Linux, Excel, Monte Carlo techniques

(GEANT4), SQL

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Mathematics, physics, statistics, computer programming

• Data acquisition, parsing and analysis

• Creative quantitative studies and investigations

• Monte Carlo techniques, building and analyzing complex simulations

PUBLICATIONS

• Braverman, J., Harrison, M., Ziock, K.P., “An Approximate Analytic Expression for the Flux Density of

Scintillation Light at the Photocathode,” Proc. IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp., Anaheim, CA, Oct. 29-Nov. 3, 335-338

(2012).

• Ziock, K.P., Braverman, J.B., Fabris, L, Harrison, M.J., “The other end of the scale: Coded apertures in the

near field for high-resolution 3D gamma event localization in bulk scintillators,” Proc. of SPIE, 8542, 854210-

1-854210-12 (2012).

• Accepted Abstract in the Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications 2014: “Event Localization

in Bulk Scintillator Crystals Using Coded Apertures”.

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