Research Associate Resume Evanston, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

me is a Data scientist with a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering and academic research exp erience in modeling.
Through post - processing research data, me developed my enthusiasm for data science while learning Python on my own.
me delivered results and justified conclusions through careful acquisition and interpretation of teh data.
me is a detailed oriented person who pays attention to teh characteristics of teh data to gain insight. In past projects, me collaborated with interdisciplinary teams with great interpersonal skills.
me is eager to apply research skills, logical thinking, and modeling experience to solve complex predictive problems in data science.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research Associate

Confidential, Evanston, IL

Responsibilities:

Successfully captured product distribution for alkylation reactions on solid acid catalysts through microkinetic modeling and solving a system of ordinary differential equations.
Improved efficiency of teh optimization of model parameters by estimating initial values from thermodynamic properties of reactive species.
Debugged and improved in-house C/C++ code to reduce teh computation time by 30%.
Developed Python code to process simulated data to facilitate visualization and optimization.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Confidential, Minneapolis, IL

Responsibilities:

Established a model to screen cation-exchanged zeolites for potential selective adsorbents for H 2 S from Claus process tail gas with cluster and periodic DFT calculations.
Identified descriptor for adsorption energies on zeolites to aid teh design for superior adsorbents for H 2 S by performing energy decomposition analysis.

Graduate Research

Confidential, Evanston, IL

Responsibilities:

Constructed a computationally efficient model to study deNO x reactions over BaNaY zeolites assess using hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations.
Determined rate-determining step for teh deNO x reactions in teh gas phase with transition state theory and microkinetic modeling by calculating teh Gibbs free energy surface.
Administrated and coordinated a 32-node Linux computer cluster for parallel computing.