Work experience
August 2018 - now. Algorithm Expert at Quintiq, a Dassault Systèmes Company.
August 2014 - August 2018. Assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, United States.
September 2011 - August 2014. Assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, United States.
September 2009 - August 2011. Postdoctoral researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands.
I was supervised by Bert Gerards, and employed under his NWO free competion project "Matroid Structure - for Efficiency."
- From September 2009 to August 2010 I was stationed at the University of Waterloo in Canada. During that time I was employed by CWI and, in part, by the University of Waterloo. I was co-supervised by Jim Geelen.
- From September to December 2010 I was at CWI Amsterdam.
- From January to August 2011 I was a guest researcher at Maastricht University.
September 2005 - August 2009. PhD Candidate at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
My daily supervisor was Rudi Pendavingh. My promotor was Bert Gerards.
Education
2009. PhD, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Thesis title: Partial Fields in Matroid Theory.
Promotor: Bert Gerards
Co-promotor: Rudi Pendavingh
2005. MSc, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Thesis title: Properties of Lattices: a Semidefinite Programming Approach
Supervisor: Rudi Pendavingh
Grant Support
- 2012-2015: PI, NSF grant Can we compare sets of points efficiently?
- 2015-2018: PI, NSF grant Connectivity and Structure in Representable Matroids.
- 2017-2018: NSF AGEP-GRS supplemental funding for my PhD student Kevin Grace.
- 2017-2018: Senior Investigator, NSF grant Collaborative Research: Phylanx: Python based Array Processing in HPX
- my contribution is to find efficient approximation algorithms that slice up multidimensional arrays for parallel processing. The project's aim is to build software that simplifies the leveraging of High-Performance Computing in Big Data applications. Above grant is for the initial phase; total project length is projected to be 3 years.
Award
I was a recipient of the 2017 LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award.
Workshops and conferences
- 2014: organizer, with Rudi Pendavingh, of the 2014 International Workshop on Structure in Graphs and Matroids, Princeton.
- 2015: organizer of an invited minisymposium on Matroid Theory at the 2015 Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM).
- 2016: organizer, with Carolyn Chun and Deb Chun, of an invited minisymposium on Matroid Theory at the 2016 SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics.
- 2016: organizer, with Rudi Pendavingh, of the 2016 International Workshop on Structure in Graphs and Matroids, Eindhoven.
- 2017: organizer, with Jim Geelen, Peter Nelson, and Luke Postle, of SiGMa: Structure in Graphs and Matroids, Waterloo.