Phileas Dazeley-Gaist - Resume (En)

Email: phileasdg [at] gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/phileasdg

Work experience:

Academic Innovation Applications Developer — Wolfram Research
Full-time: July 2023 — July 2024 — Remote

Organizing training, outreach and scientific communication events with users of Wolfram Language. Attending local conferences and events relevant to the mission of the Academic Innovation Support team. Giving conference talks and training events as appropriate to promote usage of Wolfram Language. Communicating core product functionalities as they relate to the needs of faculty for education and research use cases. Incorporating user feedback and use cases to inform the development of new demonstrations, training content and repository items. Contributing to "open projects" including the Wolfram Function Repository, Example Repository, Paclet Repository, etc. Staying up to date with trends in specific academic fields as they are identified as business-relevant, such as ed-tech, GIS, etc. Consulting with faculty, administrators or other business contacts regarding the Wolfram technology stack in their projects. Coordinating with relevant teams for the creation of user-relevant PR content, including social media posts.

Academic Content Developer — Wolfram Research
Full-time: July 2023 — July 2024 — Remote

Developing exemplar projects for computational thinking, digital art and digital humanities courses using Wolfram Language. Collaborating with external organisations to create educational content using Wolfram Language. Providing coordination and logistical support for Academic Innovation Support workshops in college and precollege settings. Researching and following up on new opportunities for collaboration on Wolfram Language workshops for external academic organisations, faculty and students

Data Science Intern — National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Full-time: May 2022 — October 2022 — Washington DC, Remote

US Federal Government Marine Debris Database Management Work (MDMAP API). Programmatically corrected errors in marine debris survey site surface definitions (R and QGIS). Data entry of NOAA surveys of Marine debris accumulation and standing stock data spanning approximately 8 years. Statistical analysis on these and other MDMAP data (R).

Undergraduate Research, Course Design and Teaching Assistant – Gray Cox
Part-time: June 2021 – June 2023 – Bar Harbor, Maine, United States

Literature review on Dialogical Reasoning strategies. Built code examples and simple models illustrating principles for dialogical reasoning in programming contexts to serve as accompanying material to an upcoming book by Dr. Gray Cox. Assisted Dr. Cox in the design, preparation, and teaching of college courses on Human Ecology of AI, and AI ethics. Assisted in the preparation of course materials, mediated class discussions, and offered technical support to students for computer science, programming, and technology tasks. Conducted weekly research and reading on the development and deployment of large language models for dialogue.

Teaching Assistant – College of the Atlantic
Part-time: January 2023 – June 2023 – Bar Harbor, Maine, United States

Offered Python and general programming help sessions to students in the classes: “Introduction to Programming and Computing”, “Language, Power, and Computation: Algorithmic Text Analysis” and “Data Science I” at the College of the Atlantic.

Resident Advisor – College of the Atlantic
Part-time: August 2020 – June 2023 – Bar Harbor, Maine, United States

House-community cohesion facilitation, mediation, and event and house-maintenance responsibilities coordination in College of the Atlantic’s Blair-Tyson and Peach residences. Oversaw residence life for three student houses during the 2020-21 academic year, and two during 2022-23. Currently managing one student house and facilitating communication between the office of student life and the student body.

Field Data Analyst – College of the Atlantic
Part-time: March 2022 – Bar Harbor, Maine, United States

Network and Website Manager – Society for Human Ecology
Part-time: April 2020 – Aug 2020 – Bar Harbor, Maine, United States

Education:

College of the Atlantic – Bachelor of Arts in Human Ecology – GPA 3.92
Aug 2019 – June 2023 – Bar Harbor, Maine, United States (anticipated graduation: June 2023)

Noteworthy Courses: AI: Futures Studies and Philosophy of Technology, Applied Data Science I & II, Chaos and Fractals, Biostatistics, Environmental History, Geographic Information Systems, History of Video Art, Image & Audio Generation and Editing using Python/C#, Economics & the Economy, Introduction to Statistics and Research Design, Seminar in Human Ecology, Sensors Controllers and Robots, Oceanography, Critical Making and New Media Art.

University of Nantes – Faculty of Sociology
Sept 2018 — June 2019 — Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

Noteworthy Courses: Anthropology, Research Methods I & II, Socialisation, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Institutions, Geography of Populations and Demographics, Political Sociology, Sociology of Education, Contemporary Environmental Challenges

United World College Robert Bosch – International Baccalaureate
Aug 2015 – June 2017 – Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Leadership, collaboration, and volunteering

  • President of the College of the Atlantic Computer Science Club (Dec 2019 – present)
  • Set up a free-access community winter food pantry to address food insecurity at College of the Atlantic. Coordinated with other volunteers to collect and distribute food to students and community members. (Dec 2019 – Feb 2019)
  • Held the position of treasurer at the LGBTQ students’ society of the University of Nantes (Oct 2018 – Dec 2019)
  • Volunteered voice work for instructional medical videos at the Földi College, Teaching Institute for Manual Lymph Drainage. (Mar 2016 – Jun 2016)

Skills

  • Wolfram Language, Mathematica
  • R (tidyverse, caret, torch...)
  • Python (pandas, NumPy, PyTorch...)
  • Machine Learning and ANNs
  • Stella Architect
  • Max/MSP/Jitter
  • C# and JavaScript
  • ArcGIS, QGIS

Language proficiency

  • English (native)
  • French (native)
  • Spanish (limited conversational)
  • German (elementary)

References

  • Gray Cox – Professor of Philosophy at College of the Atlantic – available upon request
  • David Feldman — Professor of Physics and Mathematics at College of the Atlantic — available upon request
  • Richard Borden – Society for Human Ecology – available upon request
  • Hillary Burgess – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – available upon request
  • Kyle S. Shank – Quantitative Researcher at Meta — available upon request
  • Susan Letcher – Professor of Plant Biology and Biostatistics at College of the Atlantic – available upon request