Erik A. Bensen
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Experience
Applied Machine Learning Fellow
Computational Physics and Methods Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
May 2025 – August 2025
Computational Scientist
Complex Systems Simulation & Optimization Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
May 2022 – October 2023
Graduate Intern
Complex Systems Simulation & Optimization Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
January 2021 – May 2022
SULI Intern
Complex Systems Simulation & Optimization Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
August 2020 – December 2020
Undergraduate Researcher
Toberer Lab Group
Colorado School of Mines
July 2018 – May 2021
Education
PhD Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
August 2023 – Present
MS Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
August 2023 – May 2025
MS Applied Math & Statistics
Colorado School of Mines
August 2020 – May 2022
BS Engineering Physics
Colorado School of Mines
August 2017 – May 2021
Skills
Statistical Methods
Simulation-Based Inference
Spatial Statistics
Causal Inference
Time Series Analysis
State-Space models
Generalized Linear/ Additive Models
Computational Statistics
MCMC Methods
Optimization
Sequential Monte Carlo
Programming
Python
Git
C++
R
Linux
SQL
Mathematica
Matlab
Machine Learning
PyTorch
Torch Lightning
Scikit-Learn
XGBoost
Tensorflow/ Keras
High Performance Computing
slurm
MPI
Distributed Parallel Computing
Shared Memory Parallel Computing
Research & Communication
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