Matthew Moocarme - Resume

Matthew Moocarme

PhD Physicist → Data Scientist

Profile

A motivated, skilled PhD physicist with comprehensive programming experience, a strong problem-solver with skills in data visualization, and a bias towards action.

Technical Skills

  • Python ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

  • R ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

  • Javascript ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

  • Illustrator ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

  • Java ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

  • SQL ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

  • Matlab ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

  • Git ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

  • Linux ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

  • \(\LaTeX\) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

  • Spark ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

  • Tableau ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

  • HTML/CSS ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

  • Excel ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Experience

Insight Data Science

Fellow
Sep 2016 - present
  • Built Jamify, a recommender of songs for musicians to play based on listening interests and skill level.

  • Developed a Python-based recommendation engine using latent semantic analysis and logistic regression models to predict song difficulty using data from the million song dataset and online music notation.

  • Built a front end using Python, Flask, HTML, CSS, Javascript, D3, and stored data (40 million rows) in PostgreSQL database.

The Graduate Center of CUNY

Graduate Student Researcher
2010 - present
  • Developed theories, validated in simulations, and performed experiments to build 2D surfaces that efficiently manipulate the polarization of light that resulted in 4 first-author publications in high impact journals.

  • Co-developed and taught ``Physics for Computer Scientists II”, which built students' understanding of causal inference and communication of results using Python and Matlab.

Education

Expected Graduation: December 2016



The Graduate Center of CUNY
PhD Physics — in Progress
The Graduate Center of CUNY
M. Phil Physics — 2016
Queens College of CUNY
M. A Physics — 2016
California State University, Long Beach
B. Sci in Physics — 2010

Hobbies

Publications



Robustness and spatial multiplexing via diffractal architectures

Encoding information by making light into fractals.

Plasmon-induced Lorentz forces of nanowire chiral hybrid modes

Understanding why gold nanorods move in unintuitive ways when excited by light.

Ultralow-Intensity Magneto-Optical and Mechanical Effects in Metal Nanocolloids

Aligning gold nanoparticles with light and magnetic fields.