Salutations. I’m Abe Hmiel.

I live in Manhattan and work as a Senior Manager of Data Science at Quartet Health. My current focus is on health economics, value-based care management using data transformation pipelines, risk analytics, data science inference API’s, and quality metrics in behavioral health.

I’m a Recurser. My current interests include data science, machine learning, natural language processing, twitter scraping and bots, and retro game development.

In my most recent scientific professional position, I was a postdoctoral research associate at The Institute of Shock Physics at Washington State University in Pullman. My projects focused on first-principles and molecular dynamics simulations in materials at high pressure and high temperature to extract physical quantities relevant to shock loading and static compression.

I graduated with a Ph. D. student in Nanoscience from The College of Nanoscale Science at SUNY Albany.

My Ph. D. research studied the effect of the electric field and variations in exchange-correlation on water-adsorbed metal oxide surfaces through first-principles quantum mechanics simulations. I was an active member of the UAlbany Future Faculty Leadership Council (FFLC) and the campus radio station WCDB.

I have a music project called Holistic Wellness. I played guitar, bass, ukulele, sing, sequence drums and did other instrumentation for a solo music project called _11:34 (underscore eleven thirty four) which was my primary vehicle for creative ideas for about six years. I also used to be in the bands Sonar Mellowship, The Cross Product, Carl Consumer and the Red White and Blue Torpedoes, Undefined Auguments, and Density of States.

I’m vegan and straight-edge and I like to play Magic: the Gathering, immerse myself in guitar-based aggressive music subculture things, go running, and do reformer pilates.

The picture in the background was taken on the Isle of Santorini in Greece in September 2010, and was modified using a Mandelbrot-type fractal map.

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