Nikolai Shaposhnikov

Data Scientist, Astronomer

Welcome!

I am a scientist, researcher and a former observational astronomer experienced in analyzing large multi-dimensional data sets. After receiving my PhD in Computaional Astrophysics from George Mason University I spent more than 13 years in NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center working on the X-ray data from the most enigmatic celestial objects such as neutron stars and black holes. I also developed and maintained data analysis software and calibration products greatly exceeding the end user community expectations. In my sceitific analysis I applied the advanced state-of–the-art data analysis to separate signal and noise in very weak signals. I am able to bring a combination of scientific rigor with modern data science tools along with professional habit of getting the most from data.


PhD. Computational Astrophysics from George Mason University.

MS. Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.


Hawkeye 360

Analytics Engineer

June 2017 - Present

  • Implemented geolocation algorithms based on satellite data.
  • Developed algorithm for radio spectrum mapping and signal classification.

CRESST/ University of Maryland/ NASA

Research Scientist

July 2008 - June 2017

  • Performed spectral-timing analysis of high time resolution data from X-ray astronomical sources.
  • Developed calibration software for X-ray data analysis.
  • Maintained various catalogs and scintific data products.

CRESST/USRA/NASA

June 2004 - July 2008

  • Developed the instrumental response for the Proportional Counter Array on-board NASA’s RXTE astrophysical mission.
  • • Applied analytical models to data and identified cross-domain correlations and identified signatures, useful in determining the object type and the mass of compact relatistic astrophysical objects.

Skills

  • Analysis of large multidimensional data sets.
  • Data processing and analysis, data modeling, regression analysis
  • Statistics and Probability: hypothesis testing, detection significance
  • Time series analysis: search for periodicities, correlations, Fourier techniques
  • Programming: Python (numpy,scipy, matplotlib, pandas, astropy), FORTRAN, Linux/UNIX
  • Data Visualization: matplotlib, seaborn, gnuplot, pygal, bokeh
  • Scientific software development: data reduction, calibration and pipeline processing
  • Scientific writing and publishing (Latex,GNUplot,matplotlib,sphinx)
  • Astrophysical data analysis: spectroscopy, imaging and variability
  • Version coltrol: Git

Data Science Portfolio

One look is worth a thousand words. See my data science projects and visualization.

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Contacts:

Please email me at shaposhnikov@gmail.com