Steven Dorsher
Former Computational Physicist
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I have had a 15+ year research career in physics and astronomy over the course of my bachelors degree, three masters degrees, and since my final graduation. Most of this (10+ years) has been in computational physics. My primary focus is in general relativity, black holes, and gravitational waves. I have also done research in cosmology, particle physics, neutrinos, exoplanets, the three body Newtonian gravity problem, and fractional calculus.
I have 8 main publications/documents and about 35 total including membership in LIGO spanning the time of the first three detections.
My background is primarily in scientific programming, in the context of data analysis algorithms, experiment development and assessment, and numerical methods for theory.
Education:
MS Physics, LSU, December 2017
MS Physics, U of MN, July 2013
MS Astronomy, Ohio State, August 2006
BS Physics, MIT, June 2004
Strongest Physics Fields:
General Relativity
Black Holes (EMRI's, LISA)
Gravitational Waves (LIGO)
Particle Physics
Other Fields
Neutrinos (MINOS, NOvA)
Exoplanets
Cosmology
Fractional Calculus
Scientific Computing Languages:
Currently most fluent in:
Python
Strong previous experience with:
C++/C (6.5 years)
Fortran (5 years)
Other previous experience with:
Matlab (2.5 years)
Java (1 year)
Technically have used:
Bash
Scheme
Haskell
Machine Learning-- beginner level, certificates, need practical experience still, mostly guided projects so far
Machine Learning-- beginner level, certificates, need practical experience still, mostly guided projects so far
Data Cleaning
Visualization
Regression-- linear, relu, logistic, tanh, softmax
Classification
Clustering
Neural Networks
Convolutional Filtering
Adam optimizer
Batch filter
Recurrent Neural Networks
Maybe: Transformers
Maybe: GRUs, LTSMs
Guided Projects in: phrase generation, image recognition and object detection and location, music generation, activation word detection (and overlay of beep), facial recognition and authorization, video game starship lander trajectory prediction, French to English translation (though that was very heavily guided and my French is very beginner)
Mathematical calculation of more precise technique for cosine similarity (it is possible a reference was given but I computed it instead)
Databases
Databases
Pandas
A little SQL
A little HBase
Although very rusty, past experience with:
Although very rusty, past experience with:
Linux
MacOS
Windows
Gnuplot
LaTeX
Valgrind (a little, and rusty)
gdb (a little, and rusty)
github
svn (a little, and very very rusty)
OpenMP (a little, and rusty)
MPI (a little, and rusty)
mpi4py (a little, and rusty)
Languages Spoken-- this is not my strength, to be honest, partly due to less than excellent hearing
Languages Spoken-- this is not my strength, to be honest, partly due to less than excellent hearing
Don't be stupid, I wear glasses but I can read perfectly fine. I am not blind. However I do not have hearing aids and my hearing is worse than average.
ENGLISH-- I am a native speaker, and especially a native writer. I am writing this way on purpose, my English teacher and masters committee swear that my writing is completely fine for its intended purpose if I decide that I wish to be proper
Danish-- I've finished the Duolingo track but I have little practical speaking experience and my reading and writing are not outstanding either.
French-- Definitely high school from 2000 level, although I've returned to it on Duolingo
I'm just beginning German, Turkish, and Spanish on Duolingo, but those do NOT count as skills. And neither do Duolingo chess (I'm a total novice); or lol their math games which are quite addicting though very very very very very easy.
On names and ID: My degrees were granted under the name of Susan Dorsher, which is my legal name (I have sent LinkedIn ID in the form of my passport card and MN state ID). The majority of my publications are under Steven Dorsher (please see ORCID or ResearchGate where both names are listed) to reflect the name I have used personally and professionally since 2009. I am a transman/nonbinary, permanently in the middle by both choice and medical necessity. Please, I go by Steven.
This is my real name and identity. I do not have alternate identities. My Guild Wars 2: WaveIn; SWTOR legacy: Dreamstar. FFXIV: Eternal Spiralduality. MIT & 90's: eirl; Legend's LARPing in 2000's: Aurbren
In a world obsessed with sexual harassment this should not need to be said, but I am in a ten year long term relationship with a cis man and prior to that was married for ten years, also to a cis man. I have not had other partners in the last twenty years. I am not even remotely interested in being involved with someone else and it is incredibly offensive to confuse LGBTQIA people with prostitutes or pedophiles. That is not what the words transgender, nonbinary, gay, or queer mean. At this time my partner and I are long distance and I have not seen him since 2017 in person. I have been completely true to him. It is also extremely offensive to assume that I am promiscuous, or, even, sexually active, under the circumstances. While I would like a career, you can be certain, I am looking for a job based on my credentials. I would be just as horrified as the average person capable of becoming pregnant to be touched by a coworker non-consensually.
Yes I'm Steven he/him by preference.
Yes I love my partner forever.
Yes my ID is still all female and in my female birth name. No I have not had surgery and have not been on hormones since 2011. Yes I still have a beard. Yes I like my beard.
Why is this confusing?
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