Sam Mao.

Building beautiful applications that just work.

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I am an enthusiastic data scientist with a passion for creating beautiful data visulizations and applications built on programming technologies.

Python

CSS3

JavaScript

AWS

Git

More about Me

I am a research assistant professor at Florida A&M University-Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. I am a data scientist developing LLM and virtual assistant, data visualization and deep learning tools for characterization at multi-length/time scales. My projects are majorly funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation (NSF) including access to DOE user facilities such as ORNL Leadership Class Computing Facility (OLCF), Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs), High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), The Advanced Photon Source (APS) and Nuclear Science User Facility (NSUF).

Technologies I use:

Python, CSS3, Git, Bootstrap, JavaScript, HTML5, SQL

Recent Projects

These are just a few of the projects I have collaborated on.

Mission to Mars

Robin’s web app is looking good and functioning well, but she wanted to add more polish to it. She had been admiring images of Mars’ hemispheres and realized that the site is scraping-friendly. She would like to adjust the current web app to include all four of the hemispheres images. This requires additional scraping code to pull the high-resolution images, updating Mongo to include the new data, and altering the design of her web app to accommodate these images.

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Mars

PyBer Analysis

The purpose of this assignment is to create two additional technical analyses and a written report that delivers our results to the CEO.

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PyBer_Analysis

World Weather Analysis

Create a Travel Itinerary with a Corresponding Map: a map (travel itinerary) that shows the route between four cities from the customer’s possible travel destinations, and then create a map with pop-up markers for the four cities.

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Googlemap

Movies ETL

General function to load all three data files: Wikipedia data Kaggle metadata MovieLens rating data (from Kaggle). Multiple functions perform all of the transformation steps. Remove the existing data from SQL, but keep the empty tables and then load dataframe into PostgreSQL. try-except blocks were used account for unforeseen problems that may arise with new data.

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Movies-ETL

Surfs up

Advanced Data Storage and Retrieval with a flask app to analyze the best location for build a icecream shop.

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surfs_up

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Education

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Postdoc-Machine Learning on Defect Analysis | Sep 2019 - Mar 2021

Vanderbilt University

Data Science Certificate | Mar 2020 - Sep 2020

Purdue University

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering | Aug 2016 - Aug 2019

Purdue University

M.S. Nuclear Engineering | Aug 2014 - May 2016

University of California, San Diego

B.S. Mechanical Engineering | Aug 2010 - July 2014

I'm available for work.

Actively contributing to new projects and seeking a full-time role in a fast-paced, agile environment. I AM HIRING NEW STUDENTS! Get in touch!

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