Hi, I'm Steve:
a data scientist, cloud engineer, affiliate mathematics faculty, and former software engineer. I work with all things AI/ML, data, code, cloud, and I publish research papers, too.
Education / Certifications
• Ph.D. Mathematics, The George Washington University, 2014
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Validation H5KKEQT272BQQJWF)
• MS Mathematics, California State University, East Bay, 2008.
• AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty (Validation QBHXW5810FE1QY5J)
• BS Mathematics (computer science minor), Saint Mary's College of California, 2006.
• Pragmatic Institute: Data Science Certification, September 2023
• Cloud Security Alliance Certificate of Competence in Zero Trust (CCZT)
Skills / Interests
• Data ingest and analysis
• All things AI/ML
• End-to-end software development and cloud engineering
• Research in and development of all things mathematical or data driven
Code / Data Projects
• Twitter data social netork and sentiment analysis github repository
• The next smallest self-dual embeddable graphs in pseudosurfaces github repository
• Applications of topological graph theory to 2-manifold learning github repository
• The smallest self-dual embeddable graphs in a pseudosurface github repository
• Mixed Reviews (an LLM project) github repository
• Skin Cancer Detector (an image recognition project) github repository docker container
• Applications of topological graph theory and intersection theory to 2-manifold learning github repository
Publications
• Some excluded minors of the pinched projective plane (With J. Lazaro Ruiz). In prepraration.
• The next smallest self-dual embeddable graphs in pseudosurfaces (With J. Lazaro Ruiz). To appear in Missouri J. Math. Sci..
• Applications of topological graph theory and intersection theory to 2-manifold learning. In preparation.
• Prime labelings of generalized Petersen graphs (With J. Z. Schroeder, Kathryn Cokus, Ryan Ellingson, Hayley Harris, Ethan Rarity, and Thomas Wilson). Involve, 10(1):109-124, 2017. link to journal entry
• Applications of topological graph theory to 2-manifold learning (With T. Berry). Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 462:275-296, 2024. link to journal entry
• Some excluded minors of the spindle surface (With T. Savitsky). J. Comb. Math. Combin. Comput., 119:217-232, 2024. link to journal entry
• The smallest self-dual embeddable graphs in a pseudosurface (with E. Rarity and J.Z. Schroeder). Missouri J. Math. Sci. 30(1)85–92, 2018. link to journal entry
• Notes on teaching precaluclus to a blind student in a college pre-calculus course. J. Blindness Innovation and Research, 8(1), 2018. link to journal entry
• Cosets, voltages, and derived embeddings. Australas. J. Combin., 67:438–462, 2017. link to journal entry
• Applications of topological graph theory to graph embeddability. J. Graph Theory. 87(4): 516-525, 2018. link to journal entry
• Prime labelings of bipartite generalized Petersen graphs and other prime cubic bipartite graphs (with T. Wilson). Congr. Numer., 226:227–241, 2016. link to journal entry
• Self-dual embeddings of K4m,4n in different orientable and nonorientable pseudosurfaces with the same Euler characteristic (with J.Z.Schroeder). Electron. J. Graph Theory Appl. (EJGTA), 5(2):247–263, 2017. link to journal entry