Sam Westby
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate


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Samuel Westby

Updated February 10th, 2023

I am a fourth-year PhD at the Network Science Institute of Northeastern University. My work has covered the future of small group interaction, and is currently focued on job evolution through varying labor market forces. Here is my CV.

In my free time I make videos on Instagram and TikTok about cycling and bike touring. I biked across the US from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast during Summer 2023. In Summer 2024, I rode the Tour Divide. It was 2700 miles from Banff, Canada to the Mexico-New Mexico border.

I graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with majors in Mathematics and Psychology and a minor in Computer Science. There I worked on modeling temporal Reddit data, modeling pedestrian walking paths, and visualizing and modeling data from a fleet of Fitbits.

Previously, I interned at Blackthorne Capital Management and Starkey Hearing Technologies. At Blackthorne, I was a software development intern working on a predictive analytics application built with Java's Eclipse Rich Client Platform. At Starkey, I was an iOS app development intern using Xamarin/C# with Starkey's suite of iPhone apps.

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