Logan Jones

Logan M. Jones

Utah, USA 🌎  Contact Me📧   Download Resume⬇

I am a CS student with a focus on applied mathematics, interested in problems that map local interactions to complex global behavior at the intersection of computation, physics, and biology. My interests include emergence as a process, models of collective animal behavior, evolutionary computation, graph-based analyses, cellular automata, and the mathematical frameworks used to analyze dynamical systems. I am particularly interested in understanding how definitions, frameworks, and scale of analysis can be refined, their failure modes, and their applicability to new problem domains.

Education

• Weber State University ♦ May 2024 – present
• Overall GPA: 3.99
• A.S. in Computer Science (completed Apr 26, 2026)
• B.S. in Applied Mathematics (in progress)
• Provost's/Dean's List May 2024 – Dec. 2025

Research

• REU Participant ♦ Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University ♦ Advisor: Dr. Christopher Klausmeier
  • Kellogg Biological Station REU with the Klausmeier–Litchman Lab (Summer 2026): eco-evolutionary modeling of predation, species turnover, and structural stability under seasonal temperature forcing.
  • Predation increases species turnover and structural stability in ecological communities
• Weber State LIGHT Research: ALAN and Bird Migration ♦ Spring 2026
  • Served on the DATA team for a multi-team field study examining artificial light at night (ALAN) and its effects on bird migration, with contributions spanning field data collection and the study’s data infrastructure.
  • Designed data infrastructure for the study: file and field naming conventions, a printable + web-accessible reference sheet, Google Drive folder architecture, team-specific data uptake SOP checklists, and the nightly data submission form.
  • Presented and justified the research to the President’s Council at Weber State University.
• Andrushko's Butterflies: Assisted with digitizing a museum Lepidopteran collection, including specimen handling, workflow optimization, and data transcription (Fall 2025)

Experience

• Admin. Assistant ♦ SmartGuard Rx Inc. ♦ Layton, UT ♦ January 2019 – present (part time while enrolled) ♦ Industry reference available
  • Designed and implemented workflow automation processes: automated document generation, low-touch training materials, and a logistics management system.
  • Launched and maintained marketing campaigns (15M impressions, $161k attributed sales), applied quantitative analysis and iterative optimization to improve real-world outcomes.
  • Analyzed business data to assist in product design, inventory management, medical device regulatory compliance, and strategic decision making.

Skills

• Proficient in C/C++, Python, SQL, git workflows.
• Familiar with MIPS, JavaScript, Prolog, and Mathematica.
• Modular and maintainable design; object-oriented and concurrent development.
• Coursework: algorithms, probability and statistics, linear algebra, calculus III, mathematical modeling, networking, databases, computer architecture, and software engineering.

Technical Projects / Applied Skills

• Heavy contributor to an open-source knowledge-base for a community of 12k+ students, researchers, and ant-keepers ♦ www.antscihub.com
• Observation included in the iNaturalist image dataset analyzed in Church et al., Current Biology (2025), DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.066
• iNaturalist open-data contributor: 1,089 observations; 571 Research Grade (~52%)
• Technical photography/editing: ultra-macro, underwater, wildlife, customized gear.