George Kontsevich

• Paleoclimate reconstruction of the Asian monsoon through speleothem records.
• Climate index generation from satellite based precipitation maps

Geoscience - NTU Taipei, Taiwan 2022-now

Wrote a program for the ITRAX XRF Scanner: Corascope

• GUI Program in Clojure (cljfx/JavaFX)
• XRF Data manipulation for reassembling sequentialy segments into a stratigraphically correct sequence.

The final software was published: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300421001977
And is available online: https://geokon-gh.github.io/corascope/

Geoscience - NTU Taipei, Taiwan 2020-2021

Worked on a large C++ codebase for palm biometrics identification

• Optimizing code for performance (cache locality issues, vectorization, etc.) - valgrind/perf/gprof
• Rewriting the build tools using Hunter/CMake
• Maintaining builds of binaries for virtually all platform (android/ios/arm/windows/macos/linux)

RedRock Biometrics Chengdu, Sichuan 2015-2019

Worked on a system of decentralized radar coordination at the Toyon Research Corporation. Worked on a contract for a system coordinating shipborn radars for tracking aircraft and a system for tracking ballistic missiles through all stages of flight and to assist in anti-ballistic interception. Highlights:

• Working on and maintaining a large C++(11) codebase
• Designing a radar system for both physical accuracy as well as high performance (near real-time)
• Designing a (boosted) ballistic missile simulation including multi-stage separation.
• A full statistical evaluation of the mathematical correctness of the optimization algorithm.

Toyon Research Corporation, Santa Barbara CA 2012-2015

internship - Researching the transmission of terahertz radiation through ITOcoated touch screens for Synaptics Inc. on behalf of the ITST at the UCSB.

Synaptics UCSB 2011

internship - Researching the theoretical possibilities presented by stochastic resonance in non-linear systems for filter design for two months at Hitachi Ltd., Japan. Designing and running simulations in MATLAB using SIMULINK. (Note: due to an NDA, I can’t share the details of this work).

Hitachi Yokohama, Japan 2010

internship - Part of a team at the ITST in the Electron Pulse Resonance (EPR) lab setting up and upgrading Free Electron Laser (FEL)

ITST, UCSB 2010

internship - Electromagnetic simulations for quasioptical crystal patterns optimization

ITST, UCSB 2009

internship - Data analysis in R of the retinal neural activity of mice at the Institute of Neuroscience (ION) at the University of Newcastle, UK. Independent

ION University of Newcastle Newcastle, UK 2009

internship - Worked with a cancer research team on a large-scale statistical analysis of data on cancer inhibition using R and Bioconductor at the André Lwoff Institute (CNRS Villejuif, France)

CNRS Paris, France 2008

Fluent English, French, Russian

Basic Spanish, Chinese