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QUIN MCELHINEY

quintenmcelhiney@gmail.com • 413.362.6558
pdf skills experience education

education

amherst college, amherst, MA
BS mathematics & computer science;
concentrations in philosophy, art, architecture
  • undergraduate research fellow (2019)
  • president, amherst philosophy club (2022-23)
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salisbury school, salisbury, CT
  • first inductee to cum laude class of 2018 (2017)
  • first scholar (2016, 2017, 2018)
  • founder, salisbury astronomy club (2017)
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work experience

book seller / shipping & receiving
boulder bookstore, boulder, CO
  • extensive experience reading, selling, and recommending a wide variety of new and classic books
  • customer service
  • managing inventory
  • invoicing, fullfilling orders for store and customers
visiting scholar / data analyst
university of colorado boulder
  • multi-tier research environment
  • learning complex topics for research specific tasks
  • designing and building analytical tooling
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IT technician
gershon & CO.
  • OS configuration
  • website/code maintenance
  • network security
  • migrating physical documents to digital formats
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teaching assistant
amherst college — CS department
  • assisted advanced courses in artificial intelligence and cyber-security.
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research fellow (computer science)
amherst college
  • electronics lab research environment
  • designing/building relay-based computer for security research
  • chip design, power management, assembly programming
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research assistant (phage lab)
great barrington, MA
  • extracted phage from soil; cataloged, inspected, and named novel species.
  • wet lab work
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other

(PENDING)"Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals" (2025-07-19888A)
coauthor for Aaron Clauset’s research group — CU boulder
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fellowship — studying clock attacks on CPUs
amherst college
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experimental psychology fellow
boston university
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astronomy lab
salisbury school
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skills