BRENDAN K. CHAN
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-kchan/
EDUCATION
M.S. Physics, 3.7 GPA
The Ohio State University
M.S. Computational Physics, 4.0 GPA
California State University - Long Beach
B.S. Physics
University of California - Davis
EXPERIENCE
Test Engineer
Eurofins Scientific, Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
• Tested products and components for client companies in the telecom and EV industry in order to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Communicated with customers in order to ensure proper test setup and evaluation.
• Automated flame spread testing, data acquisition, and data processing via LabView and Python.
• Built an automated rail system in order to perform a $50,000 thermal shock test for Lucid Motors.
• Performed vibration, flame, corrosion, solar, thermal testing according to international standards. Data Science Fellow
General Assembly Data Science Immersive, Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
• Participated in a full-time immersive, 3 month data science course, completing in-class projects, hackathons, projects focused on real-world applications of data science principles and best practices.
• Built a CNN model that takes in satellite image data for object detection, segmentation, and damage classification of buildings damaged by wildfire.
Graduate Student Researcher
The Ohio State University, Aug 2017 - Jun 2020
• Studied magnetic materials via ferromagnetic resonance force microscopy (FMRFM),
• Designed a new cantilever mount and installed new parts on an old FMR force microscope.
• Fabricated 2D devices and performed electrical measurements.
• TA for physics undergraduate courses. Held weekly lab classes, recitations, and office hours.
• Presented a literature review on machine learning techniques in high-powered laser experiments. Graduate Student Researcher z
California State University Long Beach, Sep 2014 - Jul 2017
• Numerically modeled electronic behavior in magnetic Josephson junctions; parameterized and solved complex system of nonlinear differential equations using the relaxation method.
• Cleaned up code, drastically reduced program run time, and added new documentation.
• Wrote a master’s thesis in the numerical modeling of superconducting hybrid systems. SKILLS
• Research
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• Technical Documentation
• Python, C, LabView, MATLAB
• Numerical Modeling
• Pandas, sk-learn, TensorFlow
• Algorithms
• Microsoft Office
• Machine Learning