[home]     [academic]     [personal]     [resume] CURRENT APPOINTMENT National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2011 Sponsor: Peter Guttorp, Department of Statistics University of Washington, Seattle, WA EDUCATION Ph.D. in Statistics, 2007 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL GPA: 3.80 / 4.0 M.S. in Statistics, 2004 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL GPA: 4.0 / 4.0 B.S. in Mathematics, 1998 University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN GPA: 3.83 / 4.0 overall,   4.0 / 4.0 in major RESEARCH INTERESTS Statistical computing Applications in astronomy and astrophysics (cosmology, solar physics) Recommendation systems Music Information Retrieval Statistical methodologies for the analysis of spatial and point process data Artificial intellegence, robotics, electronics, and machine learning RESEARCH PROJECTS and WEB DEMOS AccuRank: A novel approach to automated recommendations inspired by the Netflix Prize competition Mastermind: a machine learning algorithm based on Metropolis-Hastings Estimation of musical features for the Manta, a new control device for electronic musicians Generating constrained self-avoiding random walks uniformly at random Detecting change points in protein folding data Estimating the number of pulsars in the universe Miscellaneous consulting work THESIS RESEARCH Ph.D. Thesis:   "Point Process Models for Astronomy: Quasars, Coronal Mass Ejections, and Solar Flares" University of Chicago, August 2007 Advisor: Marc A. Coram Detecting a temporal correlation in a marked point process where two subprocesses follow a long-term inhomogeneous intensity function. Application: Onset Times of Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections Density estimation, model selection, and the detection of interaction effects in a spatial Poisson process with known biases in the sampling distribution. Application: Estimating the Quasar Luminosity Function M.S. Thesis:   "Mastermind by Importance Sampling and Metropolis-Hastings" Thesis Advisor: Marc A. Coram ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS A.B. Hugeback, M.A. Coram, and S. Jester The Quasar Luminosity Function as a Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process . Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV, 2007, G. J. Babu and E. D. Feigelson (eds.), San Francisco:Astron. Soc. Pacific A.B. Hugeback   (published as A.B. Snyder) Mastermind by Importance Sampling and Metropolis-Hastings. International Statistical Institute Bulletin for the 55th Session, Sydney (published as CD) (2005) OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Internship, 2006-2007 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD Advisor: C. Alex Young ACADEMIC TALKS "Point Process Models for Astronomy: Quasars, Coronal Mass Ejections, and Solar Flares"   [slides University of Washington Department of Statistics Seminar Series October 2007 in Seattle, WA "Statistics for Astronomy: Inference about the Population of Quasars" SAMSI program on Astrostatistics Kickoff Tutorials & Workshops June 2006 in Research Triangle Park, NC "Mastermind by Importance Sampling and Metropolis Hastings" 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute March 2005 in Sydney, Australia POSTER PRESENTATIONS "A Statistical Model for the Occurrence Times of Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Flares" American Geophysical Union - Fall Meeting 2006 December 2006 at San Francisco, CA "A Flexible Parameterization for Modeling the Quasar Luminosity Function as a Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process" Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy IV June 2006 at State College, PA INVENTION PATENTS Detection of Attack Velocity Features in Capacitive Touch Sensor Data, 2008 A. Hugeback and J. Snyder, App. 61/032,205 Recommendation Systems and Methods, 2007 A. Hugeback, App. 60/909,180 & 60/943,102 Adaptive Website Optimization Experiment, 2007 A. Hugeback, E. Vasilik, M. Meyer, 16113-977001 / GP 1487 00 US COMPUTING SKILLS C/C++ Python R / S-Plus HTML LATEX MySQL Perl Unix / Linux and Windows operating systems HONORS AND AWARDS NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008 - 2011 Graduate Student President, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, 2003 - 2004 University of Chicago Graduate Student Fellowship, 2002 - 2007 University of Chicago Department of Statistics Tuition Grant Award, 2001 - 2002 Rosemount Presidential Academic Scholarship, 1994 - 1996

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