Hello world, my name is Daniel and this is my personal website, online portfolio and blog (coming soon). I intend to use this site as an online portfolio and a way to document projects that I am working on, so it will be fairly well centred on data science, programming and statistics. However, I may go off on tangents at times to dribble some nonsense about something else that interests me. Anyway, a bit about me. I am an aspiring data analyst/engineer/scientist and recovering theoretical physicist based in Adelaide, Australia who is interested in data science, programming, machine learning, deep learning and most things technology related.
I was born and educated in South Australia. My education and career started in physics and now I am transitioning to data science. It has quickly become a passion of mine. Over the past year I’ve been increasing my repertoire of skills in this field, in doing so I have learnt a lot and enjoyed every minute of it. I know I still have much to learn, but I am very excited about the journey ahead. Now, I am actively looking for a full time data analyst position.
I obtained my PhD in theoretical physics and astrophysics from the University of Adelaide (UoA) at the very end of 2015 (conferred on the 31st of December 2015). My dissertation research focussed on a topic at the border of nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics. The underlying theme of which was an investigation of the equation of state of strongly interacting matter and the modelling of cold neutron stars. I also hold a Bachelor of Science from Flinders University, a Graduate Diploma of Mathematical Science (UoA) and a Master of Science in theoretical physics (UoA). Most recently I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Physics department at UoA working on the project “Efficient generation and evolution of discrete probability density maps”. This 3 year project was funded by the DST Group and was focussed on image compression and object tracking. I am the lead author of two DST Group technical reports which have been made publicly available as apart of this project and also several papers based on my PhD research.
Through my education and research projects I have developed sound mathematical and computational skills. In fact, I have been programming for quite sometime (starting around ~2001). I regularly program in several languages such as Fortran, Matlab, Mathematica, C/C++, and more recently python and SQL. During my studies and further academic work I’ve also been able to demonstrate a capacity to work independently and to collaborate with people at varying levels. I have also demonstrated an ability to communicate effectively with external collaborators.
P.S. Documenting this is kind of stuff online is all very new to me and it feels a little awkward. Furthermore, it is very likely that I will be fiddling with the layout and the way this site looks from time to time. Hopefully, it won’t irritate the one or two people who actually look at it.