Hello! My name is Kedree Proffitt, and I was a dual major at the University of Michigan Flint pursuing Physics. I am currently a PhD student in Medical Physics at Wayne State University. I enjoy using modern technology to elucidate the kernels of knowledge that hide in plain sight. By using data analytics and a deep understanding of our topic, we can solve any problem that crosses our path.

Here are the highlights of some of the more interesting projects I have undertaken:

Radionuclide Physics Teaching (RT4220 Wayne State)

Taught 11 students radionuclide physics (among other basic medical physics concepts) with original lectures and post-lecture assignments. Unfortunately, my hands were tied in creating new exams, so I was forced to use the previous lecturer's work with slight modification (no change in content). I am very proud of myself and my students, physics is not their forte! They all passed with flying colors, an A- median! I think that the following thank you letter that I received speaks for itself:

Master's Thesis: Clinical Characterization of a Coded Aperture/Compton Camera

A Work-in-progress! Some abstracts and papers are in the work as of now too!

The Physics of Radiation Therapy Coursepack Development (ROC 7020)

My work as a TA for F2025 was assigned after the semester had finished due to bureaucratic miasma and a last-minute TA appointment. We decided that revamping the lecture slides and converting them into a coursepack style a la. Dr. Jay Burmeister's courses would be beneficial and sufficient work. I will be TA'ing that same course in W2026 very soon! The coursepack I am writing with the help of Dr Boggula includes novel work, and converting slides into a book is more work than expected!

The coursepack is not complete yet. I will upload something when it is finished.

Data Analytics

• Near Earth Objects (CSC 302 Final and Pet Project for Weeks)

  • Obtained asteroid and meteorite data from NASA's database API
  • Cleaned the data to include only relevant near-earth data
  • Combined this with other NASA close approach data to create a stronger data set with more information on each asteroid
  • Created many figures with some help from classmates, but I am most proud of this image that I made. More info is available in my DataAnalysisUMF repository.

• Used Car Data (CSC 302 Midterm)

  • Obtained data on used cars in the US via Kaggle
  • Cleaned the data and tried to extract some useful insights
  • With a limited dataset, it was quite hard to find useful information. It's not pleasant on the eyes according to my new higher standards, but I was proud of it at the time; improvement is good!

• Many more Data Analytics Projects to come!

Physics

• Hamiltonian Time Evolution Graph (Research assistant work for UM-Flint quantum computation UROP)

  • Our research team started with a Hamiltonian for a quantum system, and using Qiskit and Python data analytics tools like Seaborn, we created a graph for each state's probabilities over time

• Electricity and Magnetism Dual Opposite Ring Charge Electric Field Calculator along Z Axis with GUI

  • This was my Electricity and Magnetism first Lab, we were offered a new choice, our teacher was testing out, do the old PHET simulation labs, or do something interesting, a computational project...
  • He tested the waters of our abilities by asking us to do the above calculation theoretically and then do it numerically, as it's my first EVER GUI, it's pretty basic.
  • This was written in Python, and with the help of Qt Designer, I made the GUI. Much of the calculation was done in Python, and the equations were derived on whiteboards and using Mathematica.