Below is a list of some of the projects I have worked on or am currently working on, including links to publications, codes, visualizations, posters, etc.
Data Science Internship
Developed machine learning models for studying dose adjustment patterns and their effects on IVF outcomes and statistical tests to alert clinics
when one of their doctors performs better or worse than the average doctor on different metrics.
Imprints of Local Bubble and Dust Complexity on Magnetic Fields
Modeled the effects of the Local Bubble geometry and 3D dust complexity on magnetic field tracers.
Filamentary Dust Polarization and Neutral Hydrogen Morphology
Improved computer vision algorithms to study the relationships between magnetic fields, neutral hydrogen, and dust.
Spherical Harmonic Convolutional Hough Transform
Developed algorithm in Python, which achieved 3000x runtime speedup and 5x decrease in memory consumption over previous algorithm.
Cross-correlating CMB & ISM Datasets for Characterizing Dust
Developed statistical tests in Python and MATLAB for quantifying the dust contribution of different components and measuring the dust properties in a certain sky patch.
Magnetic Misalignment of Interstellar Dust Filaments
Developed one of the algorithms used in this analysis, fixing spurious correlation in previous algorithm, and made figures confirming one of the conclusions of this analysis.
Bayesian Inference on Vansyngel Dust Model
Implemented the Vansyngel dust model in Python and performed Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to obtain the parameters' posteriors.
Machine Learning for Stochastic Generation of Observed Galaxy Properties
Developed a conditional Wasserstein generative adversarial neural network with gradient penalty (cWGAN-GP) in PyTorch to generate observed galaxy properties in wide-field surveys.
Machine Learning for Modeling the Transfer Function of Galaxy Detection
Developed a deep learning model for predicting a galaxy's detection by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) given that galaxy's properties and the observing conditions.
Machine Learning to Search for 2-$\nu$ Double-$\beta$ Decay of $^{136}$Xe to the Excited State of $^{136}$Ba
Developed a Long Short-Term Memory neural network in Keras in Python to search for this decay in EXO-200 data.
Machine Learning for Heavy-Flavor Jet Classification at RHIC
Developed a model made of a concatenation of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and fully-connected networks on a list of discriminators to classify charm, bottom, and light jets.
Machine Learning for Centrality Determination with the STAR EPD
Developed a model to identify the centrality of a collision, based on which of the detector tiles are hit during a given collision.
Performance Analysis of the STAR Event Plane Detector
Analyzed data collected by the detector that was installed for the RHIC 2017 run, colliding protons and gold ions, to optimize its final design.
Analysis of R&D Test Setups for the nEXO Experiment
Analyzed data we collected from test setups we built and operated to understand complicated electron emission phenomena when high voltage is applied in liquid xenon.
Cosmic Ray & Radioactive Source Testing of the Event Plane Detector
Performed calculations, digitized signal (as shown in diagram), and quantified the quality and uniformity of the different sectors of the detector.
POLARIZATION OF DUST FILAMENTS
Dust grains are organized into filaments that are well aligned with the magnetic field.
Therefore, the light they emit is polarized perpendicular to the magnetic field orientation.
In the following figure, I run two different computer vision algorithms on toy dust filaments
to show their emitted polarization patterns under the assumption of perfect alignment between
those filaments and the magnetic field.
