EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND – COLLEGE PARK | College Park, Maryland
Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2006–2012
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY | Blacksburg, Virginia
M.S. in Mathematics, 2002–2004
INDUSTRY POSITONS
DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES | Chicago, Illinois
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Emerging Capabilities & Data Science Research Group
2021–Present
Manager Modeling, Emerging Capabilities & Data Science Research Group
2019–2021
ACADEMIC POSITONS
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | Los Angeles, California
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics
2016–2019
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST | Amherst, Massachusetts
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
2015–2016
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST | Amherst, Massachusetts
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
2012–2015
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED & COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS – FORTH | Crete, Greece
Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher
2008–2010
ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY | Chicago, Illinois
Visiting Position, Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Summer 2004
GRANTS & AWARDS
MSP Research Support Funds, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014
MSP Research Support Funds, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013
Research Support Funds awarded by Marie Curie Initial Training Network. EU EST-project DEASE: MEST-CT-2005-021122. IACM – FORTH, Crete, Greece, 2009 – 2010.
Research Support Funds awarded by Marie Curie Initial Training Network. EU EST-project DEASE: MEST-CT-2005-021122. IACM – FORTH, Crete, Greece, 2008.
Michael Brin Fellowship, University of Maryland – College Park, 2006–2010
Kaplan Travel Grant, University of Maryland – College Park, 2011 & 2012
AMS Grad Student Travel Grant awarded by AMS, 2011
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
C, C++, Python, MATLAB, R
Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation (PETSc)
Automatic Differentiation (ADIC)
AFFILIATIONS
American Mathematical Society
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics