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alj010/README.md

Hi, I'm Alyssa 👋🏽

Ph.D. Candidate, HEPCAT Fellow / Sloan Scholar, and quant dev who loves surfing, cycling, and living in San Diego! ☀️🌴🐠

My background is in experimental physics, optical instrumentation, and high-dimensional data analysis, with a focus on signal detection, anomaly detection, and large-scale scientific computing. Currently working with Dr. Shelley Wright in UCSD’s Optical & Infrared Laboratory on the assembly, integration, and validation of PANOSETI telescope modules using SiPM detectors for fast-transient optical searches. Outside of the lab, I build ML-driven quantitative trading and forecasting models using a physics-based approach to noisy, high-dimensional environments.

🗂️ Recent Projects

📈 Quantitative trading systems incl. automated backtesting
🧠 Machine learning for forecasting + signal detection
☁️ NLP-based sentiment analysis w/ensemble modeling
🔭 Optical instrumentation for high-energy astrophysics
⚡ Nanosecond-scale transient detection pipelines

🎓 Background

  • Ph.D. Candidate — UC San Diego
  • M.S. Astrophysics — UC San Diego
  • B.S. Physics — Cal Poly Humboldt
  • Previous NASA GSFC Intern

🛠️ Skills

Python • PyTorch • SQL • Linux • API Development • Time-Series Modeling • Web Scraping • ML Systems • NLP • Bloomberg Terminal & OpenBB • Scientific Instrumentation

🌌 Interests

Time-Domain Astrophysics • Quantitative Finance • AI/ML • Statistical Signal Processing

🔗 Links

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  1. ts-heatwave-bench ts-heatwave-bench Public

    Time series ML forecasting benchmark: MySQL HeatWave vs Python baselines

    Python

  2. FinRL-Trading FinRL-Trading Public

    Forked from AI4Finance-Foundation/FinRL-Trading

    FinRL-X: An AI-Native Modular Infrastructure for Quantitative Trading

    Python

  3. PANOSETI_FoM PANOSETI_FoM Public

    PANOSETI - Figure of Merit

    Python