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agurvich/README.md

Hi there! I'm Alex πŸ‘‹

I'm a data visualization specialist at NASA with a Ph.D. in computational astrophysics. I love working with Python and JavaScript to create high performance interactive web applications. In my free time, I enjoy reading science fiction and fantasy as well as performing improv comedy.

Key Projects

πŸ” Data Science πŸ”

  • Earth.gov: Public-facing interagency data portal for high-level actionable datasets.

πŸ“Š Data Visualization πŸ“Š

  • Firefly - 3D interactive web visualization application for billions of data points using three.js and WebGL.
  • Eclipse Explorer: An interactive solar eclipse map for 2023 & 2024 solar eclipses (that received over 20 million pageviews and was featured on the front page of NASA.gov!).
  • Climate Legacies - Interactive visualization of the generational divide in climate impacts.

πŸš€ High Performance Computing πŸš€

  • WIND: GPU-accelerated library for integration of differential equations

πŸ› οΈ The skillz that pay the billz πŸ› οΈ

  • Languages: Python, JavaScript, Bash, C, CUDA
  • Frontend Frameworks/Libraries: React, three.js, D3.js, WebGL, Leaflet, Tailwind
  • Backend Frameworks/Libraries: Node, Vite, Next, Flask, SQLite, Alasql
  • Tools: Git, Figma

πŸ“š Education πŸ“š

  • Ph.D. (2023) & M.S. (2019) Astronomy, Northwestern University
  • B.S. Physics (2016), Carnegie Mellon University

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  1. FIRE_studio FIRE_studio Public

    Movie Making Utilities for FIRE simulations

    Jupyter Notebook 13 8

  2. abg_python abg_python Public

    common python utilities

    Python 4 5

  3. ageller/Firefly ageller/Firefly Public

    A WebGL interactive particle viewer

    Jupyter Notebook 66 13