advisor

Stedman Wilson

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EDUCATION

PhD, Mathematics: University of California; Los Angeles, CA 8/20076/2012

Dissertation Title: Embeddings of Polytopes and Polyhedral Complexes.

Doctoral Committee: Igor Pak (advisor), Bruce Rothschild, Amit Sahai, Benny Sudakov

MA, Mathematics: University of California; Los Angeles, CA 8/2007 - 12/2008

BS, Mathematics & Physics (double major): Stanford University; Stanford, CA (GPA: 3.808)

9/2002 - 6/2006

PUBLICATIONS

I. Pak and S. Wilson, Convex realizations of polyhedral complexes, submitted.

I. Pak and S. Wilson, A quantitative Steinitz theorem for plane triangulations,

submitted.

WORK & RESEARCH

Speaker,

2012Joint Mathematics Meeting; Boston, MA 1/4-7/2012

Invited to give a 20-minute presentation regarding my research on embeddings of

polyhedral complexes.

Teaching Assistant, UCLA Mathematics Department; Los Angeles, CA 9/2007 - Present

Courses taught: Discrete Mathematics, Analysis, Mathematics of Finance, Probability

Theory, Game Theory, Linear

Algebra, Intro to Programming (C Intro to Web Programming, Calculus.

Researcher,

Wolfram NKS Summer School, University of Vermont; Burlin gton, VT 6/2007 -

7/2008

Designed research project and met personally with Wolfram Research founder and CEO

Stephen Wolfram. Studied

aperiodic sums of sinusoids using an original discretization method. Programmed in Mathem

atica.

Researcher, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Stanford, CA 6/2005 - 07/2005

Programmed scripts in Python for automating visualizations using LLNL s open source

rendering program VisIt. (with

Prof. Tom Abel

)

Researcher, Stanford Physics Department; Stanford, CA 6/2004 - 7/2004

Programmed algorithm in C++ to decode GPS waveform data into timestamps. (with Prof.

Giorgio Gratta

)

Software Developer, Global Nuclear Fules/General Electric; Castle Hayne, NC 6/2003 -

9/2003

Developed algorithms to compute graphical representations of nuclear reactor core

specifications in Visual Basic.

Field Salesman, Cutco/Vector Marketing; Wilmington, NC 8/2002 - 9/2002

Recognized as Advanced Sales Representative and Certified Field Trainer. Leading salesman

in local office.

VOLUNTEER WORK

Young At Heart; Stanford, CA 9/2002 - 4/2004

Music Director. Lead weekly voice exercises, organized song repertoire, and determined

the structure of rehearsal. Weekly

vocal performances at nursing homes in the cities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Mountain

LEADERSHIP

Composer, Pianist, Founder of jazz fusion band The Institute For the Advancement of Funk

and Soul 9/2003 - 6/2005

Rower, Stanford Men s Crew Team 9/2002 - 5/2003

Runner, John T. Hoggard Cross Country Team8/2001 - 11/2001

SOFTWARE & HARDWARE

Software - Experience programming in C, C++, C#, Python, Visual Basic; experience with

HTML and CSS ; extensive

experience with Mathematica and MATLab .

Hardware - Experience building and analyzing basic analog/digital circuits.

MUSIC

10 years of classical piano lessons, 2 years of trumpet lessons (with Prof. Joyce Johnson

-Hamilton), 3 years of guitar lessons,

2 years of voice lessons, numerous original compositions and recordings

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