Curriculum vitae

Noah Finkelsteinnoah_finkelstein@brown.eduProvidence, Rhode Island

Research and work

  1. Jun–Aug 2026

    Research Student

    Massachusetts General Hospital, Biostatistics Research GroupBoston

    • Ran a simulation study testing alternative thresholds for the Long COVID Research Index, using LASSO-regularized k-means over 40-dimensional negative-unlabeled cohort data and comparing how the choice of distance metric changed the answer.
    • Cut the runtime of the analysis pipeline with multithreaded parallel computation, and ported parts of it out of R’s Tidyverse into Python.
    • The work sits inside the NIH RECOVER Initiative, a $1.8 billion study with roughly 30,000 enrolled participants.
    • R
    • Python
    • scikit-learn

  2. Apr 2026 – now

    Co-Founder and CEO

    CourseTrees

    • Co-founded and built a course-planning tool that draws a university’s catalog as a graph: 400,000 courses and 220,000 prerequisite edges across 150 universities.
    • Wrote most of the stack: Next.js and React on the front, Python scrapers and PostgreSQL behind them, deployed on Vercel and Supabase.
    • 200 users and 3,500 page requests in the first day. Sponsored by Brown’s First-Year Advising and Meiklejohn Peer Advising programs, and funded to move the heavier jobs onto AWS.
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Python
    • PostgreSQL
    • Supabase

  3. Nov 2024 – now

    Machine Learning Researcher

    Bari–Hazeltine Applied Fluid Dynamics Group, Brown UniversityProvidence

    • Model how particles move through dense polymer membranes under centrifugal filtration, using physics-informed neural networks, Monte Carlo methods, and Brownian motion.
    • Joint work with Brown’s School of Engineering and the Weitz experimental soft condensed matter group at Harvard.
    • Python
    • PyTorch
    • PINNs

  4. 2023–2025

    Camp Specialist

    Albemarle Acres, Newton Parks and RecreationNewton

    • Taught music, drama, and creative writing to campers aged six to twelve.
    • Trained and evaluated counselors-in-training, ran special events, and managed the teaching budget.

  5. 2022–2024

    Events Coordinator and Committee Member

    Massachusetts High School Chess LeagueBoston

    • Co-founded a student-run league that grew to more than 200 members across 25 high schools.
    • Ran tournaments in person and online, and handled sponsorships from Chess.com and the Massachusetts Chess Association.

Education

  1. 2024–2028

    Brown University

    Sc.B. Mathematics–Computer Science and A.B. Physics

    Expected May 2028. GPA 3.8.

    Coursework

    • Abstract Algebra
    • Graph Theory
    • Linear Algebra with Theory
    • Statistics with Theory
    • Quantum Mechanics
    • Machine Learning
    • Deep Learning
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Data Structures and Algorithms
    • Computer Systems

    Activities

    • Machine Intelligence Community
    • Brown Space Engineering
    • Quantitative Trading at Brown
    • Chess Club
    • Safewalk

Technical

Languages
Python, TypeScript, C++, R and Swift.
Machine learning and statistics
PyTorch, scikit-learn and Tidyverse.
Web and data
React, Next.js, three.js, Vite, MapLibre, Cytoscape.js, Zod, Pydantic and PostgreSQL.
Tools
Supabase, Firebase and Vercel.