Hi! I'm Amanda Turney and I'm a software developer / data scientist who is driven to work on problems that make a difference for people and our planet.

I have 8 years of experience working in climate tech and biotech, solving challenges ranging from hurricane modeling to target identification and druggability for small molecules and RNA therapeutics.

I love collaborating with scientists and technologists, mentoring others, and hacking away in a terminal/IDE while listening to EDM. 🌏 🎶 🧬

• Quantum Machine Learning: My capstone project for my MS in Data Science was an independent study on quantum machine learning. Notebooks and project work can be found in my qml repository and my final paper is listed below.

  • GitHub Repo: https://github.com/amandaturney/qml
  • Final Paper: An Intuitive Guide to Quantum Machine Learning for the Classical Data Scientist

• Quantum Computing Emulation in C++ with OpenMP: This graduate level project emulates Shor's algorithm in an HPC environment utilizing the OpenMP library to manage qubit register states with threads.

  • GitHub Repo: https://github.com/amandaturney/engr517_hpc
  • Final Paper: Quantum Computing in HPC

• Solar Spot Time Series Exploration & Prediction: A Shiny for Python application used to explore the NOAA solar cycle dataset and make predictions and forecasts of future sunspot numbers using a CNN-LSTM model.

  • https://amanda-m-turney.shinyapps.io/sunspots_predict/

• El Nino - South Oscillation (ENSO) Exploration & Prediction: A Shiny for Python application used to explore the ENSO related data variables (ONI, SOI, PNA, sea surface temperature anomalies, etc.) and make predictions and forecasts of future ENSO indicators using an ARIMA model and LSTM model.

  • https://amanda-m-turney.shinyapps.io/enso-predict1/

• High Density Scintillating Glass Proton Imaging Detector: Computational physics research in a proof-of-concept design of a novel proton imaging detector utilizing Monte Carlo simulations with Geant4, a C++ toolkit for simulating particle physics developed by CERN.
  • https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2252777

Other than slinging code at work, I am passionate about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and have been an active leader throughout my career in this space by developing grassroot communication campaigns for education and awareness of important topics and creating, analyzing, and communicating the results of employee DEI surveys to C-suite and company-wide audiences.

Outside of work, I play way too many sports to actually be good at any single one of them. The list includes tennis, doubles beach volleyball, trail running, hiking, and rock climbing. I also love traveling and eating delicious foods.

My fun fact is that I have no reaction to mosquitoes biting me whatsoever; no bump, no itch, nothing. It's basically a super power....