Welcome to my
web page!
I've just completed my third year as a Ph.D. student in the
department of applied
mathematics and statistics at Johns Hopkins.
My area of research is broadly operations research and, much more
specifically, combinatorial
optimization and games. I passed my department orals
in October, and hope to take my GBO later this summer or early
fall. While you're here, you might want to check out my research page to see what I've been
up to the last three years. My current (i.e. dissertation)
research hasn't been posted there yet because it is still ongoing, but
if you'd like to know more about that please email me at the address
above.
This summer and last, I've been an intern at Constellation Energy, in
the commodities and new energy groups respectively. During this
time I've learnt a lot about forecasting, programming in Matlab, SPlus
and VBA, stochastic calculus, and how to tie a tie. You should
check out my resume for more details. During prior summers I've
taught statistics 112 for the applied math department, and worked on an
RAship on optimal scheduling. The RA position was
especially interesting as the problem I worked on gave rise to my
thesis problem. (Although, to be fair, my thesis research has
taken many a twist and turn since it began, and is mostly concentrated
upon algorithms now)
Even earlier than that, I got my master's degree at Cornell University in
operations research and industrial engineering. I learnt quite a
bit there about mathematics, and how to keep warm in temperatures below
0 degrees F. I frequently use the former, and I hope to never
again have to use the latter. Some time earlier I was an
undergraduate at Rutgers University,
which promptly began excelling at sports after I graduated.
In my free time, such as it is, I enjoy reading and hanging around the
JHU campus, which has an excellent library system, and an okay
pool. I expect to be on the job market in one to two years' time,
looking for a postdoctoral position.
