Frank Male
Assistant Research Professor at Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolFrank Male is an Assistant Research Professor and data scientist with nine years of experience translating raw data into decision-ready insights for subsurface energy applications. He blends a PhD in Physics with hands-on engineering to build machine learning-enabled petrophysics, interpretable reservoir models, and NLP tools for technical documents, emphasizing rigorous unit testing and reproducibility. His work spans academic research and industry software development—from open-source capacitance-resistance models that simplify collaborative waterflood characterization to fast-tracked exploration tools and CI-driven devops at Shell. Based in State College, PA, Frank is known for making complex geological and production drivers actionable, balancing physics-based intuition with practical data engineering. An uncommon thread through his career is building lightweight, shareable models that let engineers and geologists iterate together without full geologic simulations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Kansas State University
Github Skills (71)
python10
forge10
pandas-dataframe10
connectivity10
datasets10
reservoir10
statistics10
rust10
eda10
data-profiling10
exploratory-data-analysis10
geology10
geostatistics9
pandas9
data-exploration9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
frank1010111/docx-comments
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Gather comments from Word docx files
Contributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 23 PRs in 2 years 8 months
docx-filescommentsdocxgather
frank1010111/cookiecutter
Jun 2022 - May 2024
Modern Python Package Cookiecutter
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
python-packagepythoncookiecuttercookiecutter-python-package
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