Python Assistant

KHAVVIA SHANMUGASUNDARARAJ

**** ***** ***** ***** ********, TX 75071

617-***-**** *******@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/khavvia/ EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX May 2020 Bachelor of Science in Physics with special departmental honors, GPA 3.48 Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

Bachelor of Science in Astronomy

EXPERIENCE

Department of Astronomy, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, Austin, TX January 2020 - Present Undergraduate Researcher

● Computational research distinguishing Lyman-alpha and oxygen II emission lines in spectral data gathered by the HETDEX telescope using supervised and unsupervised machine learning with Python

● Manipulated data using numpy and pandas, as well as scikit-learn’s principal component analysis (PCA), t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), and k-means clustering

● Performed high performance computing (HPC) and supercomputing through the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

Department of Physics, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, Austin, TX January 2020 - Present Undergraduate Researcher

● Experimental research discovering properties of magnetic field lines at the edge of the Tokamak, a nuclear fusion device, through the application of tensor calculus

● Deliberately perturbed electric and magnetic fields in Einstein notation to study their effects on the behavior of plasma with impurities

● Traced minute changes in trajectories of highly confined particles oscillating tightly around a straight path Department of Pharmacy, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, Austin, TX September 2018 - January 2020 Undergraduate Researcher

● In-lab research studying targeted drug delivery to cancerous cells encapsulated in nanoparticles at Smyth Labs

● Methodically prepared, processed, centrifuged, and tested solutions with various combinations and concentrations of polymers

● Analyzed polymeric solutions’ particle counts and voltage potentials using size-exclusion chromatography, based on Mark-Houwink’s equation

Department of Biochemistry, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, Austin, TX June 2019 - November 2019 Undergraduate Researcher

● Computational research simulating motion of microparticles through membranes with Python at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences

● Applied kinematic and energy equations in three dimensions to accurately model the behavior of proteins at the mesoscopic level

● Used a milestoning algorithm to extract information from short-time dynamics and construct a model for long-time processes

EXPERIENCE

College of Natural Sciences, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, Austin, TX August 2019 - May 2020 Teaching Assistant

● Astronomy department:Hosted help sessions in Astronomy lecture course AST 301, graded assignments, assisted with tutorial sessions, proctored exams, and answered students’ questions on coursework

● Mathematics department:Tutored undergraduate students one-on-one for Integral Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Matrix Theory, and Real Analysis

● Physics department:Graded assignments in Physics lab course PS 304 and answered students’ questions on coursework

PUBLICATIONS

● Dominguez, C., Shanmugasundararaj, K., “Properties of Polymeric Nanoparticles and Their Effects on Targeted Drug Delivery,” 2020 - under review

PROJECTS

● Brownian motion:Estimated Boltzmann’s constant by measuring Brownian motion of polystyrene microparticles suspended in a fluid using video microscopy and Python’s tracking packages

● Exoplanet tracking:Analyzed Kepler data with Topcat and Python to measure periods of transiting exoplanets

● Quantum tunneling:Visualized and obtained theoretical numerical values of bound quantum energy states for various potential barrier shapes using Mathematica

● Economic modeling:Created statistical and regression models to analyze and predict the behaviors of large data sets using R

SKILLS

Technical/Computer Skills: advanced Python; intermediate Bash, R, Java, and Mathematica; basic HTML and CSS Languages: fluent Tamil, intermediate Latin, basic French

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