Dr. Rachel Hegemann

Develop and implement algorithms used to extract salient information from large amounts of data.

Post-doctoral research position. Researching improved methods to automatically detect and track cells undergoing mitosis. Incorporated cMEX code into the existing SABINE algorithm. This resulted in a significant speed up of the initial code base.

Project leader directing and developing the algorithm generation, code base, analysis of results, and paper writing. Resulted in a published, peer reviewed article in Security Informatics, 2013 Code base written in C++ using Visual Studios with visualization in VTK/Paraview and MATLAB Resulted in numerous talks and poster presentations - July 2012 - Poster presentation SIAM annual meeting, Minnesota - Jan. 2012 - Invited Speaker MURI grant meeting, California - Jan. 2012 - Contributed talk and Poste

Industrial Math and Stat. Modeling Summer Workshop at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) with Sandia National Laboratories. Developed mathematical model of Heliostat Arrays with code base and visualization in MATLAB. Voted project presenter by team members.

Project co-leader with close interdisciplinary collaborations Wrote extensive simulation code base in C++ on Linux platform Visualization conducted in MATLAB and OpenGLResulted in a published, peer reviewed article in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Oct.15, 2011 { Resulted in numerous talks and poster presentations - Aug. 2011 - Invited Speaker at Cypress College AMC2 - April 2011 - Invited Speaker at CSU Channel Islands Graduate Seminar - Feb. 2011 - Poster at IPAM Women in Ma

Investigated current research in particle filters and implemented one on a linear ODE in MATLAB.

Research for Undergraduate at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Center for Industrial mathematics and Statistics (CIMS) { Developed model to assess risk for a long term care applicant in MATLAB Work resulted in patent USPTO 20080319802, class 705-4, Long term care underwriting system and method . Poster at MAA-AMS Joint Math Meetings in Louisiana 2007

Research for Undergraduate at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Center for Industrial mathematics and Statistics (CIMS). Developed model to assess risk for a long term care applicant in MATLAB . Work resulted in patent USPTO 20080319802, class 705-4, Long term care underwriting system and method. Poster at MAA-AMS Joint Math Meetings in Louisiana 2007

Modelling complex systems, Scientific computing, Statistical modelling, programming

Cognitive psychology, learning

Statistical analysis, programming, method testing