Chemical Engineering Microsoft Office

Ian A. Kent

** **** ** **, **** *, Atlanta, GA **309

Phone: 305-***-**** Email: ********@*****.***

Skills

Strong technical communication skills.

Highly motivated and willing to learn.

Programming: Python, Matlab, R, some Java, basic SQL (MySQL), Git.

Highly capable with Microsoft Office, including Excel. Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL – August 2012 to August 2016

Studied positioning of sub-cellular structures.

Prepared visual summaries of new data for weekly group meetings using Matlab, Python, and R.

Presented research at five academic conferences across the US.

Applied statistical tests (t-test, chi-squared, ANOVA) to determine significance of data.

Created command line utility to measure irregularity of nuclear shape by comparing with ellipsoid fits.

As a teaching assistant, taught Python (especially the SciPy/NumPy linear algebra libraries) to chemical engineering undergraduates with no prior programming experience, holding weekly office hours and after-hours review sessions before tests.

Mentored student volunteers from middle school to undergraduates, teaching them lab techniques and having them run experiments independently.

Led organization of graduate student social and recruitment events as Social Chair for the Graduate Association of Chemical Engineers from 2015-2016.

Published three academic journal articles. (PDF’s: https://goo.gl/2fvktk) Chemical Engineering Co-op

DuPont Spruance Plant, Richmond, VA – Summer 2008, Spring and Fall 2009

Monitored Tyvek product quality; contributed to a LabView program for defect prevention. Education

PhD, Chemical Engineering University of Florida August 2016 BS, Chemical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology December 2011 Self education

Coursera: Machine Learning (Andrew Ng, Stanford): covered linear regression, logistic regression, neural networks, SVMs

Udacity: Intro to Relational Databases – SQL query structure and relational database design Personal Interests

Traveled through Southeast Asia and Europe

DJ’d for student radio station at Georgia Tech

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