Student Technician/Lead Researcher:
(Aug. 2022 - Present)

I am the lead researcher and the official "computer guy" for a research at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. In this research, I am the person responsible to maintain and update all the computer programs the atmospheric scientists utilize. With the directions and help from Dr. Timothy Logan, I have the resposabilities of:
  • Help all researchers with any technology-based question or problem they are currently facing while doing their research.

  • Maintain and upgrade a the HLMA website. The website detects, plots and archives lightning instances over the Houston area. The website is also used by emergency services to alert local authorities for severe thunderstorms.

  • I lead and manage a small team of four in the development of multiple visualization programs; many of these can be found in my GitHub)

  • I assist and discuss with various software developers in the ANL and NWS on how to properly and accurately visualize radar datasets.

Projects:

  • HLMA Website:
    The Houstom Lightning Mapping Array is a network of sensors scattered across the Houston area which detect and record lightning instances. This lightning instances are processed and stored in a server we have here at Texas A&M. The data in the HLMA can be seen in its official website. The website is also used to alert local authorities for possible thunderstorms.

  • PERSIANN Visualizer:
    The Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artifical Neural Networks (PERSIANN) is a dataset developed at the University of California at Irvine. The dataset records and visualizes precipitation data for the enire globe. PERSIANN uses an artificial neural network predicts the precipitation for certain points to fill up sections in the globe where precipitation data is missing. I worked on creating various visualizers which download the data directly from PERSIANN and plots around the Houston area. My script is being used by various researchers here at Texas A&M to study the overall precipitation patterns Houston experiences.
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Lead Researcher
(Jan. 2023 - Present)

I am the leading researcher for a research project at the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M. This research focuses on data science and statistics. The project my professor, Dr. Prabir Daripa, tasked me and my peers in creating a neural network able to predict fluid flow. While this is my main project, I also:
  • Created and maintain a 100-page set of notes for a Linear Algebra course. These set of notes are being used to teach linear algebra at Texas A&M University

  • Visualized and studied the behvaiour of various complex Partial Differential Equations which are able to simulate fluid flow. These visualization scripts are right now unavailable as me and my peers finish the paper.

Projects:

  • Physics-informed Neural Network
    A Physics-informed Nerual Network (PiNN) is a special flavour of artificial neural networn (ANN) which is constrained by physical laws in the form of partial differential equations (PDEs). I am designing a PiNN which is able to handle High-Dimensional PDEs (i.e. a complex equation which takes more than one variable) such that it can quickly and accurately predict such equations. The project focuses of PDEs that are able to describe fluid flow and fluid dynamics. Thus the PiNN I am building will be able to describe and predict fluid flow with a high-accuracy. This is an ongoing project, thus visuals or repositories cannot be presented yet.
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GitHub Repositories

Below a list of some of the projects described above that I have released publicly in my personal GitHub repository. Projects such as the HLMA Webste can be found publicly on their own domains. Other projects such as the Physics-informed Neural Network are still not available as they have not been completed yet.

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The Figure-Application is a user-friendly tool designed to generate graphs from uploaded HLMA data. It provides a convenient way for users to visualize their data and gain insight.

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Figure generator for the PERSIANN precipitation data set around the Houston area.

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Source code of my professional portfolio. This project is part of a CSCE331 Assignment.

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A 3d-visualizer of the chargepol dataset. The script only demonstrates the charge layer of VHF-lightning data over the Houston area.