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