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Name Christian Engman
Professional Title Student Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Email cengman3@gatech.edu
Location Los Alamos, New Mexico NM 87544

Professional Summary

Early career researcher with interest in scientific computing, machine learning, and numerical methods.

Experience

  • 2025 -

    Los Alamos, NM

    Student Research Intern
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Applying reduced-order modelling and machine learning to radiography physics
    • Generating synthetic data for the training of ML models to reconstruct objects from radiological measurements.
    • Training reduced-order models for forward proton and neutron models to provide a fast alternative to Monte-Carlo simulations
    • Developing software in Python using NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, JAX, and proprietary LANL software.
  • 2024 - 2024

    Seattle, WA

    Software Engineering Intern
    Meta
    • Built debugging tools for Meta’s user-generated AI characters as they launch on Facebook and Instagram
    • Presented critical information to developers about discoverability, visibility, and ranking to save development time.
    • Developed a backend in PHP Hack, using GraphQL for API requests, and React and Relay for a web app frontend.
  • 2023 - 2024

    Atlanta, GA

    Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
    Georgia Tech School of Mathematics
    UTA for MATH 2552 Differential Equations
    • Led 30 student recitations and aimed at strengthening students’ understanding of course material twice weekly.
    • Held weekly office hours and graded assignments to assist instructors in managing 100+ student course sections.
  • 2023 - 2023

    Bellevue, WA

    Software Development Engineering Intern
    Amazon
    • Developed and deployed a microservice to generate compliance documents for $300M/yr of imports to China.
    • Safely migrated 10 requests/sec. of traffic from legacy system to new microservice with no negative client impact
    • Utilized Java for development, deploying on native AWS platforms integrated with Amazon’s microservice fabric.

Education

  • 2022 - 2025

    Atlanta, GA

    BS
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Mathematics, Computer Science
    • Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Processor Design, Compilers, Computer Organization, Systems and Networks, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Statistical Theory for Machine Learning, Probability Theory, Statistical Theory, Graph Theory, Coding Theory, Numerical Linear Algebra, Iterative Methods for Systems of Equations, Numerical Approximation Theory, Real Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Topology, Differential Geometry

Awards

  • 2026
    Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship
    U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Techical Innovation
  • 2025
    Outstanding Graduating Mathematics Major
    Georgia Tech School of Mathematics

    Award granted by the School of Mathematics to 5 top mathematics majors in the graduating class

  • 2024
    PURA Travel Award
    Georgia Tech UROP Office

    $1000 to present at SIAM MDS 2024

  • 2022
    Putnam Competition Top 500 Competitor
    Mathematical Association of America
  • 2023
    Putnam Competition Top 500 Competitor
    Mathematical Association of America
  • 2022
    National Merit Scholarship Finalist
    National Merit Scholarship Corporation
  • 2021
    Putnam Competition Top 500 Competitor
    Mathematical Association of America

Skills

Programming: Python, C, Java, JavaScript, C++, Julia, PHP
Mathematics: Numerical analysis, finite element methods, numerical linear algebra
Technical: Web development, machine learning, data analysis, cloud, Systems programming

Languages

English : Native speaker
Spanish : Intermediate

Interests

Phyiscs: Dynamic imaging and radiography, quantum computing and information theory, particle physics, plasma physics
Mathematics: Numerical methods, partial differential equations, probability theory, graph theory, functional analysis
Computer Science: Machine learning theory, deep learning, high-performance computing algorithms, graph algorithms, theory of computation
Music: I play guitar, saxophone, and keyboard, mostly in jazz, rock, and metal styles

Projects

  • Sparse Recovery of Poincare-Steklov Operators from Matrix-Vector Products

    Developing numerical algorithms for the sparse approximate recovery of Poincare-Steklov operators of elliptic partial differential equations from small amounts of data.

    • Exploring applications in elliptic inverse problems, including electric impedance tomography, and domain decomposition methods for elliptic problems.