Sam Carp

Sam Carp has a long and successful career in engineering. From 2013 to 2022, they have worked for five different companies in various roles. In 2013, they worked as a Junior Quantitative Analyst for Bluefin Trading LLC, where they back-tested, implemented, and automated a new statistical arbitrage trade for the Equity Desk, generating a 1,000% ROI. Sam then worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Pennsylvania from 2015 to 2018, where they conducted original research in Applied Algebraic Topology and presented their results at Oxford University and at a conference at Hokkaido University. From 2018 to 2020, they worked at Lockheed Martin as a System Engineer and Software Engineer, developing and implementing algorithms in MATLAB to find orbits satisfying geometric constraints for a satellite formation flight R&D program, and creating numerical analyses for a novel radar transmission system. Finally, from 2020 to 2022, they worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Scientific Systems, leading development in C++ and Python of a maritime, multi-asset mission planning system, and developing a distributed autonomy pipeline in C++ for the DARPA Blackjack mission management system.

Sam Carp has a long and impressive educational history. Sam began their studies in 2009 at Carnegie Mellon University, where they earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physics and Mathematics by 2013. Sam then continued their studies at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a Master of Arts (MA) in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences in 2017, and a Master's of Science in Engineering (MSE) in Robotics in 2018. In 2019, they began a Master of Science (MS) in Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which they are still pursuing.