Oral Presentations

• National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Meeting, 2018, Boston, MA
  • “The Applications of Deep Neural Networks to sdBV Classification” [Invited]

• North Carolina Astronomers Meeting, 2017, Greensboro, NC
  • “The Applications of Deep Neural Networks to sdBV Classification”

• Eighth Annual Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects, 2017, Krakòw, Poland
  • “The Applications of Deep Neural Networks to sdBV Classification”

• High Point University Research and Creative Works Symposium, 2017, High Point, NC
  • “A Virtual Survey of all known Hot Subdwarfs – searching for p-mode pulsations with GALEX”

• Meeting of Astronomers in South Carolina, 2017, Greenville, SC
  • “The Applications of Deep Neural Networks to Time Domain Astrophysics”

• North Carolina Astronomers Meeting, 2016, Greensboro, NC
  • “A Virtual Survey of all known Hot Subdwarfs – searching for p-mode pulsations with GALEX”

Computer Skills:

Programming Languages

• Expert: Python, C / C++
• Comfortable: Fortran, Arduino, PHP, JavaScript
• Familiar: LabView, Mathematica
• Web Backend Technologies: Flask, MongoDB, MySQL, Google App Engine
• Misc: Period04, Docker, GitHub, ZFS, LaTeX, Bash, Zsh

Developed Software

Most of the software I develop can be be found on my github page . Everything there is under the MIT license unless explicitly stated otherwise.

• pyTOPSScrape

  • Python interface for the OPLIB high temperature opacity tables

• astroSynth

  • Synthetic pulsating star light curve generation suite
  • Installable via pip

• mplEasyAnimate
  • High level interface over imageio allowing allowing for the creation of animations from a list of matplotlib figures.
  • Installable via pip

• VectorPy
  • Three vector reimplimentation of VPythons Vector data structure.
  • Installable via pip

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Publications

• Boudreaux, E.M., Garcia Soto, A., Chaboyer, B.C., 2024. Correlations between Ca II H&K Emission and the Gaia M Dwarf Gap, The Astrophysical Journal. In. Pres.

• Boudreaux, E.M., Chaboyer, B.C., 2023. Updated High-Temperature Opacties for the Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Program and their Effect on the Jao Gap Location, The Astrophysical Journal. 944(2), p.129

• Boudreaux, E.M., Newton, E.R., Mondrik, N., Charbonneau, D., Irwin, J., 2021. “The Ca II H&K Rotation-Activity Relation in 53 mid-to-late type M-Dwarfs”, The Astrophysical Journal., 926(1), p.80

• Guidry, J.A., Vanderbosch, Z.P., Hermes, J.J., Barlow, B.N., Lopez, I.D., Boudreaux, E.M., Corcoran, K.A., Bell, K.J., Montgomery, M.H., Heintz, T.M. and Castanheira, B.G., 2021. "I Spy Transits and Pulsations: Empirical Variability in White Dwarfs Using Gaia and the Zwicky Transient Facility." The Astrophysical Journal, 912(2), p.125.

• Vos, J., Vučković, M., Chen, X., Han, Z., Boudreaux, E. M., Barlow, B. N., Østensen, R., Nèmeth, P., 2019, “The orbital period — mass ratio relation of wide sdB+MS binaries and its application to the stability of RLOF.” , Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society, 482, 4592

• Boudreaux, T. M., 2017, “The applications of deep neural networks to sdBV classification” , Open Astronomy, 26, 258.

• Boudreaux, E. M., Barlow, B. N., Fleming, S. W., Soto, A. V., Million, C., Reichart, D. E., Haislip, J. B., Linder, T. R., Moore, J. P., 2017. “A search for rapidly pulsating hot subdwarf stars in the GALEX survey” , Astrophysical Journal, 845, 171.

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Awards & Honors:

* National Science Foundation, 2019 * Graduate Record Fellowship Program Honorable Mention

• High Point University, 2019

• University Award for Highest Achivment

• High Point University Honors Scholar Program, 2019

• All University Honors

• The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, 2018

  • Goldwater Scholar in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

• High Point University Department of Physics, 2018

  • Endowed Scholarship

• National Collegiate Honors Council, 2018

  • Portz Scholarship

• Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honors Society, 2018

  • Elected Associate Member

• Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honor Society, 2018

  • Elected Member

• The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, 2017

  • Honorable Mention for excellence in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering

• High Point University, 2015–Present

  • Presidential Scholarship

• High Point University, 2015–Present

  • Honors Scholar

• High Point University, 2015–Present

  • Dean’s List

Work & Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant, Advanced Stellar Astrophysics (Winter 2022)
• Teaching Assistant, Introductory Solar System Astronomy (Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021)
• Teaching Assistant, Introductory Mechanics (Winter 2019)
• Harvard SAO REU (Summer 2018)
  • Project: Effects of the Primordial Binary Fraction on Globular Cluster Evolution

• SASP at Space Telescope Science Institute (Summer 2016)
  • Project: A search for short period pulsation in all hot subdwarfs with GALEX

• Student Instructor for Multi-variable Calculus (Calculus III)
  • Led two Python classes

• Introduction to python modules for data science
  • Introduction to deep-learning and how to implement it in Python

• Technical Director at Encore Stage & Studio
  • Cul-de-sac (Summer 2016)
  • Jungle Book (Summer 2017)

Poster Presentations

• Cool Stars 21, 2022, Toulouse France
  • “Updated High-Temperature Opacities for DSEP and their Effect on the Jao Gap Location”
• 233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 2019, Seattle Washington
  • “A Journey to Mars: HPUniverse Day and Its Impact on Young Minds and a Community.”

• 233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 2019, Seattle Washington
  • “Effects of the Primordial Binary Fraction on the Evolution of Globular Clusters.”

• High Point University Research and Creative Works Symposium, 2018, High Point, NC
  • “Listening to the voices of Stars with Deep Neural Networks”

• 231st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 2018, Washington D.C.
  • “Using Deep Learning to Analyze the Voices of Stars.”

• North Carolina Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, 2017, High Point, NC
  • “A Virtual Survey of all known Hot Subdwarfs – searching for p-mode pulsations with GALEX”

• High Point University Research and Creative Works Symposium, 2016, High Point, NC
  • “New Long Period Hot Subdwarfs from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope”

• 227th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, 2016, Kissimmee, FL
  • “New Long Period Hot Subdwarfs from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope”