Shari Matzner
Senior Research Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sequim, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShari Matzner is a Senior Research Engineer with over a decade of experience applying statistical signal processing, physics-based modeling, and advanced analytics to real-world problems in ocean energy and national security. Based at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, she builds detection, tracking, and classification algorithms and systems—from thermal stereo vision for birds and bats to real-time sonar and underwater video processing for fisheries and maritime domain awareness. Her background blends deep academic training (Ph.D. in Systems Science, computational intelligence) with hands-on lab work dating back to radar modeling and information-theoretic building characterization. Comfortable moving between theory and production, she has a demonstrated knack for turning sensor physics into operational software that supports sustainability and security objectives. Colleagues rely on her multidisciplinary perspective and long-term institutional knowledge to tackle noisy, hard-to-model environments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Green BayM.S., Systems Science, M.S., Systems Science at Portland State University
Italian
Github Skills (19)
python7
tracking-algorithm6
ecology6
oceanography5
re-identification5
image-processing4
deep-learning3
computer-vision3
object-detection3
artificial-intelligence3
machine-learning3
pipeline-framework2
image-annotation2
video-processing2
open-source2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pnnl/ThermalTracker
Oct 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
pnnl/rubblepy
Nov 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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