“The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.” –Frank Zappa
For those wanting all the details, take a look at my resume or my curriculum vitae(CV). To contact me decode this puzzle: ‘shawn <dot> garbett <at> vumc.org’ or ‘shawn <at> garbett.org’ for personal correspondence.
I am infinitely curious and highly resourceful. I love playing piano,1 Preciso Me Encontrar performed by Buffy Rhea and myself.
board games, modeling, reading sci fi, and programming. One theme through all these years is modeling–whether it be simulating nuclear magnetic resonance, playing an abstract simulation game or building a scale car and painting it. A statistical model of data is another model I enjoy, and these prove to be highly useful and lucrative.
Fluent in a wide variety of programming languages and technology stacks. However, what I really enjoy is formally typed languages like Haskell. It’s incredible that via the Curry-Howard correspondence each program is a witness to the proof of that program’s type. That type may be something utterly useless and broken, but one has never the less proved it.2 If we only knew what it was. Dependent type systems of proof via Homotopy Type Theory is a personal fascination.
If one needs predictive3 I’ve seen several presentations where predictive models are referred to as machine learning and artifical intelligence. Matthew Stewart commented on this. or explanatory statistical data science models of data; this I can deliver. Applied economic decision making with dimensions of cost and effectiveness is a specialty.
Send me your data!
I did my undergraduate at Tulane University in New Orleans in electrical engineering and computer science. I worked for several years at TVA and applied combinatorial optimization to coal burning and linear programming to running the reservoir system. The program led to an ~2% increase in coal burn efficiency world wide for multiple furnace installations leading to massive savings–and lower power bills for all.