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Alexandra Ballow

Headshot of Alexandra Ballow
Program Year:
4
University:
Montana State University
Field of Study:
Algebraic Topology and Quantum Mechanics
Advisor:
David Ayala
Degree(s):
B.S. Mathematics, and B.S. Physics, Youngstown State University, 2021

Practicum Experience(s)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2023)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
Kathleen
Hamiliton
Practicum Title:
Mode Connectivity of QCBMs when Fitting the 5 qubit 1D Cluster State

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2022)

Practicum Supervisor(s):
Kathleen
Hamilton
Practicum Title:
Is Mode Connectivity Explainable by LOCC Equivalence

Annual Program Review Abstracts

Investigating an Interesting Categorical Action (2024)
LLC Equivalence and Mode Connectivity in the QML Loss Landscape (2023)
Is Mode Connectivity Explainable by LOCC Equivalence (2022)

Publications

Machine Learning for Prediction of Mid to Long Term Habitual Transportation Mode Use. Paper session presented at: IEEE International Conference for Big Data; 2019, December, 9-12; Los Angles, CA, USA.
Ballow, Alexandra & Chludzinski, Lindsey & Prieto-Langarica, Alicia. (2020). Agent-Based Modeling in Mathematical Biology: A Few Examples. 10.1007/978-3-030-33645-5_6.
One more is planned to be submitted within the month.
"Handling Missing Values in Joint Sequence Analysis". Presentation at: ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing (TAPIA 2019) ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) (First place winner); 2019, September 18-21, San Diego, CA, USA.
"Infections Modeled using a Cellular Automata Structure". Presented at: MMA Mathfest: 2018, August 1-4, Denver, CO, USA.
"Handling Missing Values in Joint Sequence Analysis". Poster presented at: ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing (TAPIA 2019) ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) (First place winner); 2019, September 18-21, San Diego, CA, USA.
"Joint Sequence Analysis Challenges: How to Handle Missing Values and Mixed Variable Types". Poster presented at: SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19); 2019, February 25-March 1, Spokanne, WA, USA.
Automatic Tagging of Stack Overflow Questions Using Word Embeddings and Deep Learning. Poster Presented at: Grace Hopper Celebration; 2019, October, 1-4. Orlando, FL, USA.
Automatic Tagging of Stack Overflow Questions Using Word Embeddings and Deep Learning. Poster Presented at: Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWiC); 2019, February, 22-23. Huron, OH, USA.
Modeling Graphene Squeeze-Film Pressure Sensors. Poster presented at: CRD Summer Student Poster Session. 2019, August, 1; Berkeley, CA, USA.
Infections Modeled using a Cellular Automata Structure. Poster Presented at: MMA Mathfest; Denver, Colorado, 2018, 1-4, August.
Performance Evaluation of Calorimeter Clustering Algorithms for Particle Tracking. Poster Presented at: SciPy; Virtual, 2020, 6-8 July.
A. Ballow, P. Linton, and D. J. Priour, Jr.
Phys. Rev. E 107, 014902 – Published 27 January 2023

Awards

Barry Goldwater Scholarship (2020-2021)
ACM SRC Grand Finalist (2020)
NCWiT Collegiate Award Finalist (2020)
Dean's List, Youngstown State University (2017-2020)
Choose Ohio First Scholarship (2017-2021)
President's Scholarship (2017-2021)
Honors College Scholarship (2017-2021)
Assorted YSU Foundation Scholarships (2018-2021)
Several Conference travel scholarships