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Zachary Simon

Zachary Simon

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Autonomy/Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer at Lockheed Martin

  • Education

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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      Bachelor of Arts - BA Political Science with Distinction; History minor

      Activities and Societies: Alpha Epsilon Pi

    • Diplomatic Academy of Vienna

      2017 - 2017
      Study Abroad

      Burch Field Research Seminar through Honors Carolina – Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo

    • The Calhoun School

      2007 - 2014

    • The City University of New York

      2019 - 2021
      Master of Science - MS Mathematics

  • Experience

    • Louis Stokes Cleveland Vamc

      Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
      Software Engineer Intern

      • Conducted research on multiple sclerosis patient data using MATLAB to search for saccade movements• Supervisors: Professor Robert Daroff and Professor Mark Walker

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

      Jul 2013 - Sept 2013
      Physics Research Assistant

      • Collaborated with a team of undergraduate and graduate students to program a robot that tracks the Sun given any GPS coordinates using Python and a Raspberry Pi computer • Supervisor: Provost and Professor Christopher Clemens

    • The Mount Sinai Hospital

      May 2014 - Jun 2014
      Emergency Medicine Intern

      • Collected and analyzed emergency medicine and geriatric data in Excel• Supervisor: Dr. Lynne Richardson

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

      Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
      Physics Research Assistant

      • Filtered Hubble and SOAR Telescope data using Python in astrophysics lab• Supervisor: Provost and Professor Christopher Clemens

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

      Aug 2017 - May 2018
      Political Science Researcher

      • Tested hypothesis in RStudio on link between oil import dependency and conflict. Cleaned and merged datasets from CSV files, then found descriptive and inferential statistics. Used time-series analysis, GLM, and logit model• Supervisor: Professor Stephen Gent

    • Private Contractor

      Sept 2018 - Jun 2021
      Mathematics Teacher and Tutor

      • Homeschooled middle and high school students, and tutored undergraduate students in math and science

    • Launch Math + Science Centers

      Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
      STEM Instructor

      • Taught math, science, and computer science to K-8 students in after-school program and daily summer camp

    • The City University of New York

      May 2020 - Dec 2020

      • Researched the primitivity and simplicity index functions for finitely generated free groups motivated by “untangling” closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces with Professor Ilya Kapovich• Obtained bounds for the primitivity index function and an exact result for the simplicity index function • Proved theorems in a theoretical computer science research paper on matrix representations• Diagonalized matrices and proved results about algebraic structures in formal language from automata• Supervisor: Professor Benjamin Steinberg

      • Mathematics Researcher

        Feb 2020 - Dec 2020

      • Mathematics Directed Reading Student

        May 2020 - Aug 2020

    • Lockheed Martin

      Jun 2021 - now

      • Senior Autonomy/Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer

        Oct 2022 - now

      • Autonomy/Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer

        Jun 2021 - Oct 2022

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Zachary Simon
      Speaker AI Summit New York Dec 2023 Interviewed and spoke on two panels in the Javits Center at the AI Summit New York
    • Awarded to Zachary Simon
      Distinction UNC-Chapel Hill May 2018 Graduated with GPA above 3.5
    • Awarded to Zachary Simon
      Shepard Jones Undergraduate Award in International Relations Department of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill May 2018 Award is given to an undergraduate student judged to have written the best essay in international relations
    • Awarded to Zachary Simon
      Burch Field Research Scholar Honors Carolina Summer 2017 award to study abroad in the Balkans
    • Awarded to Zachary Simon
      Dean's List - Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, and Fall 2017