Frank is an Applied Mathematics PhD student at Boulder, working as a GRA on Dr. Cibele Amaral’s BioExtremes project. His work aims to quantify the effects of climate change-related variation in weather patterns, as well as species diversity, on mangrove forest height and density. This entails creating an open-source set of Python tools for analyzing wind and rainfall datasets along with measurements from space-borne spectrometers and range finders. Due to the size of the datasets involved, it also entails developing code to run on the university’s high-performance computing clusters.

Frank holds a B.S. in Honors Mathematics from the University of Michigan, with a computer science minor. He has worked on remote sensing data science projects over two years of internships at the Michigan Tech Research Institute, and has coauthored multiple research papers in math and statistics. Frank is also enthusiastic about card games and his hobbyist programming projects, as well as soccer, hiking, and longboarding.