Nicholas Kvaltine

Experience

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  REU Marine Science and Engineering in China

  Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

  REU Student

  I collaborated with students at the Dalian Institute of Technology in Dalian, China for 10 weeks. I used the finite element analysis program ANSYS to model multifunctional materials. My responsibilities also included presenting my work and giving a presentation on American culture for Chinese students.

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  NASA Academy

  Jun 2006 - Aug 2006

  Academy Associate

  I was chosen to participate in the highly selective NASA Academy program. I worked on a project titled "Defining the Lunar Pole Environment" which included literature review and matlab simulation. I also was responsible for creating and presenting a poster to describe my work.

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  University of Virginia

  Aug 2006 - Aug 2013

  PhD

  My area of study was the spin structure of the nucleon. I worked with polarized targets and analyzed data from electron scattering experiments in order to investigate the distribution of spin within the deuteron.

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  Ecotope, Inc.

  Dec 2013 - Sept 2016

  Research Analyst

  I have monitored the quality of incoming data for a whole-home energy metering project that spanned the Pacific Northwest and I've contributed to analyses of this metering data. I've helped coordinate data collection for metering projects and used R to create data handling and analysis scripts. I have also worked extensively with the simulation program "SEEM", written in C, extending its functionality for the simulation of heat pump water heaters and maintaining its cross-platform compatibility. I worked closely with HPWHsim, the open source heat pump water heater simulation, and took the lead in redeveloping it in C++. Duties included coordinating the laboratory testing of Heat Pump Water Heaters, maintaining HPWHsim, and setting up metering and analyzing the data for energy usage in buildings. Show less

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  MHKKG

  Jan 2017 - Sept 2017

  Technical Advisor

  I wrote patents and helped move patents through the patent system. This job required quickly understanding unfamiliar technologies and describing them in a thorough way.

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  Strangeworks

  May 2018 - May 2018

  Contractor

  Investigated and adapted quantum computing framework for cross compilation.

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  Pinpoint

  Jan 2019 - Nov 2020

  Data Scientist

  As a Data Scientist at Pinpoint, I used machine learning techniques to create models and predictions using data from code and work tracking systems like GitHub and Jira.

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  Electronic Arts (EA)

  Oct 2021 - now

  Senior Data Scientist