Recent Grad with Master's in Physics form UPenn

Juan Antonio Castro

JOB EXPERIENCE

Constellation Summer Undergraduate Researcher— University of

California, San Diego

June 2019 - August 2019

Studied the magnetic fields of potentially habitable exoplanets through computational thermodynamics and data analysis by coding numerical simulations in Python and Fortran.

Engineering Research Assistant — University of Pennsylvania September 2017 - June 2018

Studied the properties of nano materials for the US military through experiment preparation, data analysis, GUI software development and simulation modeling of microscopy data (TEM, AFM, etc.) in MATLAB and Excel. STEM Summer Tutor — USC Hybrid High School

Summers of 2016, 2017, 2018

Tutored summer school for all grade levels of Math, Chemistry, and Physics with full on-site grading and teaching responsibility for over 25 students. EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania — Graduate School of Arts & Sciences August 2019 - May 2020

MS in Physics and Astronomy

GPA: 3.84

University of Pennsylvania — College of Arts & Sciences August 2016 - May 2020

BA in Physics & Mathematics

GPA: 3.24

PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

Submatriculation Master’s Program in Physics — 2019-2020 Completed the University of Pennsylvania’s submatriculation Master of Science program in Physics and Astronomy and attained a BA and an MS within 4 years without an additional year.

Engineering Research Paper — 2018-2019

Co-author of an upcoming paper on a new statistical model for analyzing friction at the nano scale under the UPenn School of Engineering. Within a team of graduate engineering students, I analyzed data in MATLAB, helped develop the new mathematical model, and revised the paper.

SKILLS

Physics: Problem Solving using

Python, MATLAB, & Excel;

Quantitative Research using ML

and Data Mining; Numerical

Simulations in Python & MATLAB;

Developing Physical Models.

Math: Statistical Analysis; Linear

Programming; Partial Differential

Equations; Optimal Parameter

Estimation; Mathematical

Algorithms.

Code: Python (3yrs), MATLAB

(1yr), Excel (2yrs), & Java (1yr).

Hackathons.

RECENT COURSEWORK

Physics: Grad. Optics (2020);

Grad. Thermodynamics (2019);

Stats, Data Mining, & Machine

Learning in Python (2019); Adv.

E&M (2018-19); Grad. Quantum

Mech. (2018-19); Grad

Electronics Lab (2018).

Math: Game Theory (2020);

Grad. Applied Math (2019); Grad.

Analysis (2018-19); Grad. Linear

Algebra (2018); Adv. Abstract

Algebra (2017-18); Complex

Analysis (2018); PDEs (2017).

CS: Java & Ocaml (2016).

AWARDS

2019 NSF Fellowship:

Summer Research Fellowship

2018 & 2019 Lanzate

Scholarship: National Award for

Low-income Students

2015 National QuestBridge

Match Scholar: Full-ride

Scholarship to the University of

Pennsylvania

2015 Watts Hackathon 1st Place:

Created FeedWatts website

Seeking Full-time Employment

City: Los Angeles, CA

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