ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE |
Queens College, CUNY
Associate Professor, Mathematics
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Aug, 2021 - present |
Queens College, CUNY
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
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Aug, 2014 - Jul, 2021 | |
Technion
Visiting Scholar, Industrial Engineering and Management
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Jul, 2018 - present |
EDUCATION |
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Statistics
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May, 2014 |
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
A.M., Statistics
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May, 2012 | |
Stanford University
B.S., Mathematical and Computational Science
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Jun, 2006 | |
California Institute of Technology
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Jun, 2003 |
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE |
Coatue, LLC.
Data Scientist
Built models to help a quantitative hedge fund make investment decisions and developed algorithms to enhance trading efficiency.
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Summer, 2019 |
DictionarySquared, Inc.
Founder & CTO
Conceived and engineered a web application that teaches vocabulary to high school students via reading contextual snippets.
Used by thousands of students nationwide. Received an Institute of Education Science (United States Department of Education)
grant for $1.5M (see grants section), Wharton Business Plan Semifinalist 2010, Wharton Business
Competition best business plan award.
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Jan, 2008 - present | |
Eventbrite, Inc.
Software Engineer
First engineer
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Apr, 2007 - Aug, 2007 | |
Stanford University, Lab of Peter Lee
Staff Scientist
Conceived and engineered "GemIdent" - software that finds objects of interest in images
(see inventions section) by using a Random Forests in a Java
image GUI.
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Jun, 2005 - Mar, 2007 |
AWARDS |
Queens College Divisional Teaching Award
One award per year
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Mar, 2023 |
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
$100K over three years
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May, 2010 - Apr, 2013 | |
J. Parker Bursk Memorial Award for Excellence in Research
One departmental award per year
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Dec, 2013 | |
Donald S. Murray Award for Excellence in Teaching
One departmental award per year
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Dec, 2012 | |
Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist
300 semifinalists per year nationwide
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Jan, 2002 |
TECHNICAL STRENGTHS |
Software Languages
R, Stan, Java, Ruby on Rails, C++, Python, web
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Other Skills
git, SQL, Linux, simulation via grid computing
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thesis: Statistical Analysis & Design of Crowdsourcing Applications (PDF)