I did a Science.

Interests
Education

  • PhD in Experimental Particle Physics, 2003

    Stanford University

  • BS in Engineering Physics, 1995

    Cornell University

Blog Posts

Open Letter to Netflix
Jul 24, 2022
“Why do some people here want to make COVID worse?”
Sep 21, 2021
Many paid the ultimate sacrifice for the 1st amendment — the least you can do is pay a for your…
Dec 15, 2019
To District or Not To District
Oct 20, 2019

Projects

Ranked Choice Voting
Open source library and web server to score Ranked Choice elections run with Google Forms
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Ranked Choice Voting
Taiwan's 2021 COVID Response
View data about cases/deaths during the summer 2021 COVID outbreak in Taiwan, showing that simple precautions like wearing masks are effective at stemming the spread of the virus.
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Taiwan's 2021 COVID Response
2017 FCC Net Neutrality Comments
View (non-robotic, non-spam) comments submitted to the FCC by US citizens, by Congressional District, about Net Neutrality in 2017.
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2017 FCC Net Neutrality Comments

Publications

Discovery of complex oxides via automated experiments and data science
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021)
Lusann Yang, Joel A. Haber, Zan Armstrong, Samuel J. Yang, Kevin Kan, Lan Zhou, Matthias H. Richter, Christopher Roat, Nicholas Wagner, Marc Coram, Marc Berndl, Patrick Riley, John M. Gregoire
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Assessing microscope image focus quality with deep learning
BMC bioinformatics (2018)
Samuel J Yang, Marc Berndl, D Michael Ando, Mariya Barch, Arunachalam Narayanaswamy, Eric Christiansen, Stephan Hoyer, Chris Roat, Jane Hung, Curtis T Rueden, others
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Rapid photovoltaic device characterization through bayesian parameter estimation
Joule (2017)
Riley E Brandt, Rachel C Kurchin, Vera Steinmann, Daniil Kitchaev, Chris Roat, Sergiu Levcenco, Gerbrand Ceder, Thomas Unold, Tonio Buonassisi
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LSST and the Dark Sector: Image Processing Challenges
(2008)
J. A. Tyson, C. Roat, J. Bosch, D. Wittman
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The Shear Testing Programme 2: Factors affecting high-precision weak-lensing analyses
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2007)
Richard Massey, Catherine Heymans, Joel Bergé, Gary Bernstein, Sarah Bridle, Douglas Clowe, Håkon Dahle, Richard Ellis, Thomas Erben, Marco Hetterscheidt, others
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The LSST Deep Detection and Analysis Pipeline: Optimal Reconstruction of Galaxy Shapes
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts (2005)
C Roat, D Wittman, JA Tyson
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