tara larrue

* Developing a novel data-driven compression scheme for 3D datasets * Developing an interactive volume rendering technique from compressed data * Facilitating a user study to measure cyber sickness in a virtual reality headset using EEG * Developed a Hololens demo to visualize radio frequency data * Mentored a high school intern on a research project * Tools: C++, OpenGL, Unity * Devices: Hololens, Vive, GPU

Designed and implemented a database to track chemicals used throughout company - Automated year-end EPA reporting and inventory processes Tools Used: SQL, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic

* Investigated root causes of meter data quality issues through Excel data analysis * Determined most efficient method to resolve issues by a deadline for financial settlements by estimating over gaps, finding alternative data, communicating with project managers about meter configuration troubles, or other methods * Team leader for complicated data quality case, "Pulse Multipliers" * Improved upon Excel applications and developed training material for data-fixing processes * Tools Used: Excel, Visual Basic, R

Developed Microsoft Excel applications to assist the Performance Assessment Group in improving their data organization and analysis processes. Applications included macros converting raw accident report data into useful tables and graphs.

* Implemented a physics-based lake temperature model in Python for research development of a "smart" adaptive probe * Used model to reconstruct sparse probe data & create efficient probe sampling policy * Tested model efficacy with probe simulations * Tools Used: Python (SciPy, FiPy, Scikit-Learn)

* 1 of 16 students selected for 8-week intensive summer research program from a pool of over 300 applicants * Completed project, "Rayleigh-wave Particle Motion in Sedimentary Basins," with the Seismology Group of the Geophysics Department * Optimized MATLAB code to be twice as efficient. Code created sedimentary basin velocity models and computed Rayleigh-wave eigenfunctions * Created original figures and animations (using MATLAB) characterizing surface-wave particle motion * Gave a short oral presentation and participated in a poster session upon completion of program

See Oregon State University appointment description. I moved with the Geospatial / Environmental Monitoring Lab from Boston University to Oregon State University.

* Produced story-telling visualizations in the form of geospatial maps & summary charts * Streamlined image processing workflow with efficient Python & bash scripting * Ran spatial statistics to summarize disparate satellite time-series datasets * Used machine learning techniques (random forest, SVM) to attribute landscape change to specific agents * Managed >80 Terabytes of raster & vector data * Tools Used: Python, R, ENVI, QGIS, Linux scripting * Publication: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d9e/meta

Activities and Societies: Vice President of TERRA Society (Geology Club), Civic Engagement Program, SAT coach for "Let's Get Ready"