CV
Basics
| Name | Spencer Veatch |
| Label | Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer |
| scveatch@willamette.edu | |
| Phone | 503-538-4540 |
Education
Work
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Sep. 2023 - June 2024 Student Tutor
QUAD Center, Willamette University
Provided tutoring in Statistics, Computer Science, and Data Science, supported multiple computing languages, and contributed to student research projects.
- Provided one-on-one and small group tutoring to undergraduate and graduate students in Statistics, Computer Science, and Data Science.
- Helped with a wide range of subjects including study design, data cleaning, data visualization, analysis, modeling, and data communication.
- Supported a diverse range of computing languages including R, Python, and C/C++.
- Proficiently troubleshooted issues, explained intricate programming and mathematical concepts, and actively contributed to the design of effective solutions for a wide variety of student research projects.
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June 2023 - Present Data Scientist
Renewable Resources Group
Developed machine learning pipelines for climate and satellite data, created high-resolution irrigation estimates, and optimized algorithms for large-scale datasets.
- Created a machine learning pipeline that ingests and processes diverse climate and satellite data.
- Developed and implemented a model to generate projections of climate similarity at 25 year increments based on a user-provided point, producing high-resolution and user-friendly output rasters for efficient decision making.
- Engineered a cutting-edge, multi-modal model to produce high-resolution irrigation estimates from satellite images and soil moisture data.
- Optimized algorithms and developed parallelized solutions to improve feature engineering processes and enable seamless handling of large-scale datasets, leading to a significant reduction in runtime.
Awards
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Dale T. Mortensen Scholarship
Willamette University
A prestigious full tuition scholarship awarded annually to one student who displays outstanding achievement in both Economics and Mathematics.
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Outstanding Student Research
Consortium for Computing Sciences Northwest
This award acknowledges outstanding achievement in both the quality and content of computer science research, as well as exemplary presentation skills.
Skills
| Technical Skills | |
| Rstudio | |
| Python | |
| C/C++ | |
| ArcGIS | |
| SQL | |
| CUDA | |
| Tensorflow | |
| Pytorch | |
| Docker | |
| Linux | |
| Spark/pyspark | |
| AWS | |
| SageMaker | |
| Numpy | |
| Matplotlib | |
| Seaborn | |
| ggplot2 | |
| Tableau | |
| Git |