Resume

Professional Positions

Data Scientist at Axon Vibe - April 2015 - Present

At Axon Vibe I use machine learning to try to understand and predict our user's behavior from the data generated from their mobile phones. A recent project I have designed, completed, and productionised involves matching users journeys to a specific train schedule using sparse, noisy location data from the user's mobile phone.

In this position, I use Python, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow, PostgreSQL, PostGIS on a daily basis.

Data Science Fellow at Insight Data Science - January 2016 - February 2015

Insight Data Science is a program designed to help former academics become data scientists. While at Insight I completed Flight or Plight, a web app that allows a user to input their flight itinerary and calculates the likelihood of a user being delayed, or missing a connection. 

Curriculum Developer at the University of Toronto - 2012 - 2014

I developed physics assignments to introduce students to Python and numerical methods for a second-year physics class. This required communication ability as well as experience in the Python programming language.

Educational Developer in the department of Continuing Education and Distributed Learning

The Continuing Education and Distributed Learning department at Lakehead University is responsible for delivering all of Lakehead Universities online courses.

I designed and developed custom PHP and MySQL solutions for the department. These included a custom internal work ticketing system, and an online assignment submission form which automatically attached a cover page and printed each assignment, saving approximately 1500 person hours per year.

Education

Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Toronto - 2015
M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Toronto - 2008

My masters and doctorate focussed on the mechanism behind planetary magnetic fields (in Earth, the magnetic field causes compasses to point north).

To study these magnetic fields I simulate the electrically conducting fluids in the cores of planets using large-scale computer simulations. These simulations result in terabytes of data which must be analysed giving me extensive experience in the methods required to extract meaning from large data sets.

See the page in the Projects section for a visualization of this.

h.B.Sc in Physics from Lakehead University - 2007

Honours and Awards

2014 Van Kranendonk Award for Teaching Assistants - 2014
Department of Physics - University of Toronto

This award recognizes excellence in teaching in the department of physics at the University of Toronto. I was chosen from a pool of approximately 160 teaching assistants based on nominations by from students.

Outstanding Student Paper Award - 2009
American Geophysical Union

This award recognizes excellence in student research at the 2009 Spring American Geophysical Meeting. This award is based on research and communication ability.

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Vilim, R., Stanley, S., Can an Fe-S Layer at the Top of Mercury’s Core Explain its Weak and Qaudrupolar Magnetic Field? (In Preparation)

  • R. Vilim, S. Stanley, and S. A. II Hauck. Iron snow zones as a mechanism for generating Mercury’s weak observed magnetic field. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 115(E11), 2010. doi: 10.1029/2009JE003528.

  • R. Vilim, S. Stanley, and L. Elkins-Tanton. The effect of lower mantle metallization on magnetic field generation in rocky exoplanets. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 768(2):L30, 2013.
  • D. Mahler, P. Joanis, R. Vilim, & H. de Guise (2010). Squeezing in su(2) intelligent states. New Journal of Physics, 12, 033037.