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DATA SCIENCE

Data import, processing, and artifact removal; trend identification and model fitting; publication and visualization

SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

Numerical routines in Python, Julia, and Fortran; Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Maximum Likelihood fitting; parallel computing and supercomputing

MACHINE LEARNING

Neural Networks; Computer Vision; Random Forest; Classification Techniques 

ACADEMIC research interests:

Dwarf spheroidals

The smallest known galaxies, they orbit the Milky Way. Much remains mysterious about their formation and properties. 

Machine learning

It is difficult to differentiate between binary and solo stars. Machine learning can classify utilizing previously discarded information.

alternative theories
of gravity & dark matter

Despite decades of searching, dark matter remains unknown. Could good old gravity explain it?

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA                 August 2021
Ph.D. in Physics. 
Recipient of George E., S 1945, and Marjorie S. Pake Presidential Fellowship in Physics

Brown University, Providence, RI.                                  May 2015
B.Sc. in Physics.
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Chi

PhD Advisor: Matt Walker

PUBLICATIONS

• Stellar Density Profiles of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies. doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7459; Link to poster presented at AAS 235, Jan 5, 2020. 
  
• GAN-Based Satellite Imaging: A Survey on Techniques and Applications. doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3221123
  
• Proposed low-energy absolute calibration of nuclear recoils in a dual-phase noble element TPC using D-D neutron scattering kinematics. doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.01.053

 

OTHER THINGS I DO:

Astronomy outreach

I volunteer at the Carnegie Science Center, showing the universe to visitors through telescopes (and the planetarium dome, when it's cloudy)

music

I am an avid cellist. I perform with chamber music ensembles at Carnegie Mellon University

imProv comedy

I've performed at the Arcade Comedy Theater and the Steel City Improv Theater in Pittsburgh. Member of the Steel City house team That New Jersey Smell.

alexandergmoskowitz (at) gmail.com
​https://www.linkedin.com/in/moskowitzalexander/