Introduction
Hi, my name is Augustinas. I am originally from a small town in Lithuania. I have spent most of my academic career in the United Kingdom. Recently I have finished PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford. My work involved studying beyond the Standard Model theories concentrating on the Higgs sector. Higgs boson is nescessary to explain why particles such as electron are massive.
Education
Theoretical Physics, DPhil
University of Oxford
Part III Mathematics, Masters
University of Cambridge
Theoretical Physics, Bsc
University of Glasgow
Activities
Problem solving community
I manage and run one of the biggest Physics and Mathematics problem solving communities on Facebook with about 80k+ people actively helping each other to solve problems ranging from elementary school algebra to university calculus.
Problem solving groupProjects
I am very passionate about using code to solve problems and throughout the years I have worked on many different projects.
I have experience with with
Java, C++, Python, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Matlab, Mathematica. I am
familiar
with
LAMP and MEAN stacks as well as cloud infrastructures
like AWS
and
DigitalOcean.
These days I am very interested in various aspects of Machine Learning and picking up Rust language.
Although most of the projects
I have worked on now only exists in my memories, some are listed
below.
BitMaps
(React, Flask, Microsoft Azure)
During a hackathon we built map navigation app which instead of finding the fastest route gives you the safest route based on the UK traffic incidents history data. App also shows the heatmap overlay indicating more traffic-dangerous areas. The project won Microsoft Prize and brought us fast track entry to the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition. We also got an award for the Most Stylish Hack.
NAKA
(JS, Microsoft Azure)
We have developed an assistant for doctors, which automates note taking process when talking with patients. The software listens and transcribes the doctor-patient conversation in real time. From the dialogue, it picks up patient's symptoms, puts them in a separate column and suggest recent scientific literature based on the mentioned symptoms.
Calorie Tracker/Travel Suggestions
(Angular, Microsoft Azure, VISA API)
We developed a calorie tracker which estimates the amount of calories consumed based on your purchase history. This was part of the idea of what can one tell about the person based on their purchase history. Another feature was suggesting the most money saving travel location for individual based on the lowest Forex exchange rates. Read More.
1am Rocket
(JS, Angular)
A simple web music player allowing to build playlists, queue songs, search for songs and more. It fetches songs from youtube, stores playlists in SQL database and is built using Typescript framework Angular, which I wanted to learn more about and ended up loving.
Paper Keeper
(Typescript, react, NestJS, Mongo)
When I started doing PhD I got lost in tons of research papers I had to keep organised. I have built Paperkeeper for people to save papers/links, organise them by tags and group them by folders.
GoAT Tools
(c++, qt)
Developed a GUI for Mainz Nuclear Physics Institute,which processes most recent experimental data (8GB every 30 mins) in the background, builds histograms, runs analysis and displays everything on the spot. Real time data visualization allowed us to immediately see when a sensor within a detector malfunction.
Physics Event Generator
(JS, nodejs)
During a wonderful summer in Hamburg I was working on a GUI behind particle physics event generator Whizard which calculates cross sections for different scattering and decay processes.
Gravity simulations
(c++, SFML)
Playing with gravity simulations. Put the planets in, give them mass and initial velocity and see how the universe evolves! It was built using SFML C++ 2D graphics library.
Jarvis
(c++, voce-lib, JSGF)
After watching Iron Man, and learning about the magic of speech-to-text. I could not pass this. I developed a program which would listen to sentences, transform them to text, study its structure and based on activation keywords perform some task. For example: "Jarvis play Metallica", "Jarvis tell me news in science", "Jarvis check email", "Jarvis call dad"...
ETH Blockchain
(JS, nodejs)
Developed a framework to store data in Ethereum smart contract. As an application one would store hash of a binary of a file in Ethereum smart contract (say .pdf document) allowing a third party to check if a file has its "signature" stored on a ledger. This was suppose to be a part of a project that did not go anywhere.