Parker Gara

• Automates a number of searches that are conducted as part of the background check process using Python.
• Works on a project to automate the process of extracting key-value pairs from written documents using spaCy in Python.
• Configures a database of immunization records and background check-related documents to check applicants' information against clients' background check and immunization requirements.

Researcher for the National Science Foundation DELTA (Descriptors of Energy Landscapes with Topological Data Analysis) project at the University of Colorado Boulder.

• Fitting Algebraic Varieties and Finding Singularities: Researches the problem of fitting algebraic varieties to pointcloud data, extending the ideas of manifold learning to spaces with singularities. Publishes a paper on this subject.
• Visualization of Energy Landscapes: Develops software for visualization of energy landscapes, creating animations that combine the motion of a point on an energy landscape landscape with changes in the associated molecular conformations.
• Dataset Creation with GAMESS: Uses the quantum-chemistry software GAMESS with Pandas in Python to generate a dataset of the Laplacian of electron density during the inversion of ammonia to be used for catastrophe theory research.

• Assists in the manufacturing of polarizers to be used in commercial electronics.
• Creates a Jupyter notebook using Python to visualize the effects of polarizer stacks on light using the Poincare Sphere.
• Performs repeatability studies examining the polarizer manufacturing process in order to determine the likelihood that manufacturing variability is within tolerance.

Participates in the University of Colorado at Boulder mathematics research experience for undergraduates in a project related to the DELTA research group.

• Application of TDA: Performs persistent homology analysis of a database of isotopic meteorite compositions using Gudhipython and Eirene in Julia.
• Work With SQL: Assists in the migration of a dataset of isotopic meteorite composition from Excel to a MySQL.