Christopher Tralie
Ph.D. Student NSF Graduate Fellow
Springfield Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Tralie is an engineer-turned-mathematician and NSF Graduate Fellow pursuing a Ph.D. at Duke in applied geometry, topology, and geometric time series analysis with practical applications in music, video, and 3D shape evolution. With 14 years of engineering experience and a strong foundation from Princeton and Duke, he builds and implements signal-processing algorithms and prototypes—ranging from ROS-based robotic mapping to GUI-driven software at Lockheed Martin. He actively mentors undergraduates and is passionate about pedagogy, having taught a highly rated Digital 3D Geometry course and written numerous technical tutorials. Christopher combines rigorous theory with hands-on systems work, often translating advanced topological ideas into reproducible tools for real multimedia and sensor data problems.
14 years of coding experience
Master's of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA 3.9, Master's of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA 3.9 at Duke UniversityBachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Princeton University
French
Github Skills (132)
python10
topological-data-analysis10
representations10
librosa10
sliding-window10
barcodes10
dtw10
audio10
sliding10
music10
jedi10
coordinates10
dimension-reduction10
music-information-retrieval10
persistent10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ctralie/GeometricCoverSongs
Jul 2016 - Jun 2022
Geometry features for block window cover song identification (a continuation of my ISMIR 2015 paper)
Contributions:113 commits, 3 PRs, 95 pushes in 5 years 11 months
songcontinuationcover-song-identificationismirwindow
ctralie/SlidingWindowVideoTDA
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:68 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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