I'm James, a Data Scientist and Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience delivering high-impact AI and automation solutions across scientific research, engineering, and financial services.
I specialize in designing and training neural networks, building comprehensive AI agent frameworks from the ground up, and developing automation systems that save 2+ hours per day per user. My expertise spans the full ML lifecycle from data engineering pipelines to production deployment of LLM-powered applications. I thrive on translating complex business problems into scalable technical solutions that eliminate manual workflows.
Experience
2021 — Present 2019 — 2020 - • Implemented a novel magnetic modeling method from academia for a prototype sensor array
- • Created over 20 simulations for various thermal, magnetic, and electrical systems
- • Designed software to meet client's magnetic simulation needs resulting in $250,000 contract extension
Projects
Real-Time Black Hole Simulator...
A real-time black hole simulator built with Rust, WebAssembly & WebGPU. Explore gravitational lensing effects interactively in your browser.
Options Visualizer...
Tool to visualize changes in the Black–Scholes model with respect to other variables. 2D or 3D data output. Can also be used to get current Greeks for a given option. European style options.
Personal Portfolio Website...
A static portfolio website built with Next.js 15, featuring interactive project cards with GitHub stars, a markdown-powered blog system, and optimized for AWS Amplify hosting
chickhen.xyz
A website built in gatsby.js with hosting and CI/CD provided by AWS Amplify
Drexel Micromouse 2020...
Won 1st prize in the 2020 Princeton Micromouse competition using the A* algorithm implemented in Python
