About

Current Job

• Post Doctoral Fellow at Oklahoma State University
• Research Director at XomaHealth, LLC.
• Research into fluid dynamics.

Contact

• Email: burtonerikk@gmail.com
• Phone: 580-754-0211
• Address: 801 Lynn Lane, Stillwater, OK 74075

Institutions

• Ph.D., Physics. Oklahoma State University. 2017-2022
• B.S., Mathematics. Oklahoma State University. 2013-2017
• B.S., Physics. Oklahoma State University. 2013-2017

Work experience

Education

Adjunct Professor

Developed online labs within 3 month for the online version of the freshman course General Physics 1.

Teaching assistant

• Taught labs for Physics 1 and graded lab reports
• Taught the discussion section of the course to help students with problem solving
• Graded exams and homework for general physics courses

Research

Research assistant

Research supervised by Dr. Donna Bandy

• Developed techniques to investigate nonlinear systems in an experimentally viable way
• Wrote programs in Mathematica to theoretically test a laser with injected signal model
• Trained new undergraduate research assistants to use Mathematica and the proper way to collect and present data
• Performed troubleshooting on the programs during the transition to the OSU supercomputer PETE.

I-CORPS Regional

Participant in NSF Southwest Regional I-CORPS IdeaLaunch Virtual program learning how to construct a business model canvas and how to interview potential customers for a start up company.

Computing

Programming

Wolfram Mathematica, Lua, R, Matlab/GNU Octave, bash/shell, some superficial knowledge of C, common LISP and Haskel; markup languages including LaTeX, Markdown , R Markdown.

Coding projects

• Developed Mathematica code for research
• Designed Lab simulations in Unity
• Built the project repository for Bandy, L.L.C. and XomaHealth, LLC on GitLab

Technical Skills

RStudio, Blender, Word, Excel, GIMP, pandoc, Mathematica, Unity.

Publications

Dissertation

E. K. T. Burton, “A Power-Shift Method to Control Nonlinear Systems” Oklahoma State University, July 2022, under Professor Donna Bandy.

Journal Articles

• E. K. T. Burton, “Characteristics of coexisting attractors and ghost orbiting in an optomechanical microresonator” Chaos, April 2024

• J. R. Hall, E. K. T. Burton, D. M. Chapman, and D. K. Bandy, “Experimentally Viable Techniques for Accessing Coexisting Attractors Correlated with Lyapunov Exponents” Applied Sciences, October 2021

• E. K. T. Burton, J. R. Hall, D. M. Chapman, and D. K. Bandy, “Shifts in control parameter dynamically access individual attractors in a multistable system” Nonlinear Dynamics, July 2021

• D. K. Bandy, E. K. T. Burton, J. R. Hall, D. M. Chapman, and J. T. Elrod, “Predicting attractor characteristics using Lyapunov exponents in a laser with injected signal” Chaos, January 2021