I am Joe Germany, a first-year university student at the American University of Beirut, double majoring in Pure Mathematics and Physics.
I am currently interested and working on a number of projects in the field of physics-informed machine learning with a special focus on Hamiltonian mechanics. Supervised by Dr. Sara Najem and Dr. Joseph Bakarji, I am working on creating data-driven techniques for the discovery of the Hamiltonian expression of a dynamical systems and for predicting its temporal evolution, while preserving inherent properties of the system (like symplecticity). You can find the website of our research lab at: Data-Driven Modeling Lab - Joseph Bakarji
I am also in the process of writing up an interactive survey (being progressively published on this website) on the field of physics-informed machine learning with particular focus on techniques for the treatment of Hamiltonian systems. You can find it here: [[Survey on the Techniques of Physics-Informed Machine Learning]].
You can contact me at: [email protected]
- Currently enrolled (starting Fall 2024) in a B.S in Mathematics and Physics (double major), American University of Beirut
- Current GPA: 4.3/4.3
- International Baccalaureate Diploma, Saint Joseph School, Cornet Chehwan, Lebanon
- Final grade: 43/45 on IB diploma with 7/7 in high-level mathematics, physics, and chemistry
- Graduated as Valedictorian (Valedictorian Address)
- Recipient of prestigious AUB President Merit Scholarship (1 out of 10 university-wide; full tuition coverage)
- 1590/1600 SAT Score (790 Math; 800 English)
- 2022, 2023 participant in the high-school Summer Research Experience in Physics at AUB. I worked on the following projects:
- Analytically and computationally analyzing the precession of mercury and the bending of light
- Analyzing diffusion in networks
- Using Faster RCNN-like technology to track Whirligig beetles and analyzing their behavior
- 2018, 2022, 2023 National Robotics Champion (1st Place) in national World Robotics Olympiad competition
- Ranked 7th overall out of 71 teams in 2022 international World Robotics Olympiad (Senior Category) in Dortmund, Germany and 3rd worldwide in impromptu 2nd day challenge
- 1st Place in 2023 AUB Math, Science, and Technology Fair, presenting a project in computational physics on analyzing the emergence of chaos in the double pendulum
- Secretary General (1st Place) in 2023 GC LAU MUN and Diplomacy award (2nd Place) in 2022 LAU MAL competition