Data scientist with a background in astrophysics.

Data Scientist @ From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Senior Postdoctoral Scholar, LIGO Data Science Group @ ● Developed software for optimizing astronomical observations ● Led a working group of 12-15 participants in a large scientific collaboration ● Organized and managed large scale data science project involving 16 geographically dispersed researchers ● Mentored graduate and undergraduate students on a wide variety of projects From 2010 to Present (5 years) Research Associate @ ● Created low-latency software tools to enable new types of astronomical observations ● Introduced the use of advanced statistical methods in the search for gravitational waves in pulsar timing data ● Developed cosmological simulation software that performed more than 10x fast than the state-of-the-art ● Worked on the gravitational two-body problem for rotating black holes From 2007 to 2010 (3 years) Quality Assurance Scientist @ ● Tested and validated a drug discovery software suite ● Launched a study comparing computed vs. measured binding affinities for HIV and Alzheimer’s drugs From 2001 to 2002 (1 year)

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics @ University of Florida From 2002 to 2007 Bachelor's Degree, Physics @ Reed College From 1997 to 2001 Larry Price is skilled in: Hadoop, MapReduce, Machine Learning, Big Data, Scientific Computing, Statistics, Physics, Python, LaTeX, Data Science, C, Probability Theory, Problem Solving, Computational Modeling, Bayesian statistics