Joseph David Quinn-Vitabile

Joseph David Quinn-Vitabile is a third-year computer science major and physics minor at Montclair State University. Joseph recently interned at Johnson & Johnson Technology Services in the areas of reliability operations and cloud computing, where he developed software tools for Application Maintenance Leadership and an infrastructure-provisioning automation for Amazon Web Services managed databases. At MSU, Joseph has begun conducting computational physics research through an investigation of the process of extracting gravitational wave signals from data obtained by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration using computational inferencing models. This has been followed by a semester of independent study surrounding computational methods of physics and engineering. Additionally, Joseph is a Supplemental Instruction Leader for the Discrete Mathematics course. In the future, Joseph aspires to be a computational physicist, working particularly on astrophysical problems such as gravitational wave astronomy where modern developments in data science and computing infrastructure play a key role.