Resume

CONTACT

bausth2@uic.edu

EDUCATION

University of Illinois | Chicago | Illinois

PHD in Mathematics | May 2025 | GPA: 3.8/4.0

Western Michigan University | Kalamazoo | Michigan

BA in Mathematics | April 2019 | GPA: 4.0/4.0

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant | University of Illinois | Chicago | August 2020 –

·       Led discussions for Pre-Calculus, Applied Calculus, Differential Equations, and Intro to Python.

·       Taught material including function transforms, trigonometry, logarithmic properties, integration, derivation, partial differential equations, basics of loops, lists, and object-oriented programming.

·       Managed student groups and leading them through tasks, when they had low internal motivation.

Lead Instructor | University of Illinois | Chicago | June 2022 – August 2022

·       Designed and taught mathematical curriculum for advanced high school students. Led project based learning and organized activities and problem-solving sessions.

Data Science Intern | CCC Intelligent Solutions | Chicago, IL | June 2021 – August 2021

               Analyzed the ability of car features to reduce the frequency and severity of collisions.

·       Cleaned a large data set with thousands of data points.

·       Used correlation maps and to conduct efficient feature selection.

·       Employed regression analysis to pinpoint which feature greatest influenced the model.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Predictive Wine Analysis | Intro to Big Data Structures | University of Illinois | Chicago | August 2022 – December 2022

     Predicted whether a wine was red or white with high accuracy and predicted quality score.

§  Analyzed the influence of 12 variables on the quality score of wine using R conducted a regression analysis.

§  Utilized the features as the variables in another model, this time creating a binary variable indicating red or white, with 93% accuracy classified a wine correctly.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

A Model for Optimizing Recalculation Schedules to Minimize Regret | University of Illinois | Chicago | 2023–

§  Analyzed on-line black box algorithms that output some per round regret in the stochastic setting, from the perspective that updating the solution is costly, inducing a trade-off, found optimal updating schedules with logarithmic cost.

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

§  Austhof, B.G., and English, S.J. (2019) Nearly-Regular Hypergraphs and Saturation of Berge Stars, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. Vol. 26(4), p.4.49.

§  Austhof, B.G., Bennett, P., and Christo, N. The set of ratios of derangements to permutations in digraphs is dense in [0,1/2], Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.  Vol. 29(1), p.1.8.

SKILLS, ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

Technical Skills: Python: Pandas, SKlearn, Seaborn, R

Certifications & Training: Erdos Institute Data Science Bootcamp certificate

Activities: Math Club Treasurer at Western Michigan University, Member of Symbols of Inclusion at UIC, organizing and grievance chair in the Graduate Employees Organization.

ART

Reflections | Logan Square Immersive Arts Co-Operative | 2023

I created this work to capture my own digital footprint. By inputting my camera roll into a generative adversarial network, I captured AI’s processing of my sense of self, my experiences, my image, my art, what comprises me as a person and had it train on this dataset. Creating, of course, nothing distinguishable but a rather abstract vision of who I am. In addition, I created an armature that was constructed by forming it around my own body and is made of metal wire and silicone, reflecting the composition of the physical body through an artificial lens.