**Rocco Panella** Data Scientist · 610-703-6189 · panella.rocco@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/rocco-panella/ 89 Hamden Drive, Hudson, OH 44236 Experience - Industrial ============ ### BGI, Akron OH - Principal Engineer, Data Scientist _September 2017 - Present_ - Principal investigator for LSO-DAT (Landing Signal Officer Data Analysis Tool), a client- and web- application for applying data science to performance assessment of aircrew recovery aboard aircraft carriers - ETL of human-entered data and machine-generated (flight computer) data - NLP and unsupervised clustering used to take officer notes and classify them into landing profile categories - Applied CRISP-DM to historic officer notes to help influence policy recommendations for aircrew training - Led implementation of RNNs via Tesseract for handwriting recognition of officer notes - Scrum master and technical lead for two current DOD SBIR-funded projects - Verification and validation of simulator behavior. Developed html reports with animated 2D and 3D visuals. - key technologies: Python, Jupyter, Tesseract, altair, bokeh, electron (node), Flask, VSCode, Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence), git (LFS, GitLab, GitHub), h5py, threejs - Leader of data science group study - Employee of the Quarter, presented by CEO ### Intel Corp., Chandler AZ - Senior Development Engineer, Substrates and Packaging Development _July 2013 - September 2017_ - Developer and owner of computer vision system for automatically identifying and classifying images of processing defects - System utilizes Python, C++, openCV, scikit-learn, SQL, MS Task Scheduler - Led implementation of system, coordinated across business groups including automation, factory yield owners, and factory management - Responsible for compiling, reporting, and driving product yield and quality in a high-volume manufacturing factory - Yield and quality analysis performed with oracle databases using JMP, python, SQL, scipy and scikit-learn - Used model-based problem solving to eliminated yield loss - Leader of daily factory tactical excursion response meetings and 24/7 excursion response team - Developer for interactive online dashboards for factory metrics - Dashboards utilize SQL, Python, JS, bokeh, matplotlib, pandas - Rotation Engineer in Technology Manufacturing Group: - Sustained and troubleshot issues on AMAT Endura chemical vapor deposition tools - Designed and built a web-based management system for tracking wafers in factory using ASP.NET - Recruiting Leader for Intel Venture, Engineering Leadership Program - coordinated travel for 10 people and matched candidates to program needs - Division Recognition Award from CEO for organization of and contributions to the Intel Innovation Symposium ### PPG Industries, Pittsburgh PA _2010-2012_ - Modeled mass and chemical flows for a coated glass-manufacturing process - Used multivariate statistical methods to correlate real-time system performance with historical data to predict success rates. - Techniques: principal component analysis, partial least squares regression, plant-wide optimization, MATLAB, VBA, Excel, R ### MCS Industries, Easton PA _Summer 2005_ - Compilation and organization of daily inventory and pricing information for multiple storage and manufacturing facilities - Skills required: Report compilation using Excel and VBA, cooperation with technical workers and factory managers in a manufacturing setting Education ======================= ### Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA _2008 - May 2013_ - PhD Chemical Engineering ∙ GPA 3.91/4.00 - National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow - Research Advisers: Prof. B. Erik Ydstie and Prof. Dennis C. Prieve - Thesis: “Aqueous Deposition of Titania Nanoparticles for Fabrication of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Anodes” - Areas of Study: Semiconductors, colloids and surface science, transport phenomena, photovoltaics, machine learning and multivariate statistics - Skills: Optical microscopy, zeta-potential measurement techniques, scanning electron microscopy, Mathematica - Award for excellence in Student Teaching in 2 courses, 5 courses taught during studies. - President of Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association (ChEGSA) ### Penn State University, State College PA _2004 - 2008_ - BS Chemical Engineering ∙ GPA 3.94/4.00 Highest Distinction - Honors College Thesis: “Colloidal Machines: Directed Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles.” - President of Schreyer Honors College Student Council (2007) Publications and Presentations =========================== - Publications - S. Ranjan, S. Balaji, Rocco A. Panella, B. Erik Ydstie. “Silicon solar cell production.” Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2011: 1439-1453 Computers & Chemical Engineering Best Paper Award Winner - Panella, R.A.; Ydstie, B.E.; Prieve, D.C., "Rapid deposition of titania nanoparticles on tin oxide for dye solar cell anodes using fluid mechanics and eletrokinetics," Proceedings of the Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2011 37th IEEE , pp.001182-001186, 19-24 June 2011 - A.M. Yake, R.A. Panella, C.E. Snyder, D. Velegol. "Fabrication of colloidal doublets by a salting out - quenching - fusing technique." Langmuir, 22 (22), 9135 -9141, 2006 - Presentations - 37th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Seattle WA - June 19-24, 2011 - Rapid deposition of titania nanoparticles on tin oxide for dye solar cell anodes using fluid mechanics and eletrokinetics - Nominated for best of session - American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Conference, Minneapolis MN - October 16-21, 2011 - Rapid Deposition of Titania Nanoparticles for Dye Solar Cells via Electrokinetics - American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Conference, Pittsburgh PA - October 28 – November 2, 2012 - Modeling of Solid and Particulate Passivating Layers in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells