USC Volunteer Technical Staff
USC Dornsife Mind & Society Center — Sep 2024 – Feb 2025
Overview
Volunteered as technical staff for the USC Dornsife Mind & Society Center, a research center focused on social and behavioral science. Provided infrastructure support to graduate students whose data analysis workflows were constrained by the limits of personal hardware.
Set up self-hosted data tools and cloud compute resources to unblock research work that would otherwise have been impossible or impractical on standard laptops.
Tech Stack
MetabasePostgreSQLRStudio ServerAWS EC2
Key Contributions
- Enabled graduate students to perform data analysis and visualization by setting up Metabase connected to their Postgres database
- Deployed RStudio Server on a high-memory AWS EC2 instance, resolving memory constraints from resource-intensive R analyses