Evan Lewis

Computer Science student focused on applied AI, business technology, and efficient software systems.

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About

Brief Bio

I am a rising senior at the University of Maryland pursuing a degree in Computer Science with a machine learning concentration and a business minor. I am interested in applying AI to solve real world problems in the software, business, and financial sectors. I enjoys learning about new topics and technologies in the machine learning and scientific fields, which I leverage to create innovative solutions.

Background

Experience

AI & Data Consulting Intern, EY

Incoming internship.

Software Engineer Intern, Texas Instruments

Engineered a soft bounce email management system designed to protect email credibility, including internal SQL databases and Python scripts that synchronized systems through SendGrid API calls.

Peer Research Mentor, University of Maryland

Mentored students in the Climate Computing stream of FIRE, supporting research development, data analysis, modeling, and presentation of undergraduate research posters.

Climate Computing Researcher, FIRE

Researched relationships between wave activity flux and Arctic weather patterns, writing Python scripts for simulations and analysis on Derecho, the NCAR supercomputer.

Work

Projects

Python / Pandas / NumPy / Streamlit / Plotly

Real-Time Option Volatility Surface

Built a financial analytics application with live Yahoo Finance data, interactive 3D volatility surfaces, Black-Scholes pricing, Greeks calculations, and implied volatility construction.

Python / NLTK / Scikit-learn / Seaborn

PlanetTerp Teacher Rating Predictor

Created a machine learning model to predict professor ratings using review sentiment analysis and feature extraction, comparing linear regression, ridge regression, and random forest models.

Personal

Interests

Topics

  • Applied AI
  • AI Ecosystems
  • Financial Markets
  • Business Technologies
  • Physics

Books

  • The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
  • Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by Lee Smolin
  • The Iliad by Homer
  • One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

Podcasts

  • Dwarkesh Podcast
  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape
  • Relentless
  • Lex Fridman Podcast

Movies

  • The Prestige
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Oppenheimer
  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • The Pianist