Hi.
I am a mathematical scientist and software engineer from California. I graduated with a B.A. in Applied Mathematics with Computational Biology from UC Berkeley in 2007 and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from UC Davis in 2010.
My academic master's research focused on phylogenetic computation, personalized drug dosing for warfarin, and higher-dimensional adaptive landscapes. My favorite mathematical disciplines include algebra, statistics, combinatorics, and optimization. In addition to math classes, I took coursework in computer science, pharmaceutical, organic, and bio chemistry, genetics, biotechnology, physics, philosophy, and economics.
I worked on NSF funded research projects as a graduate student at North Carolina State University at the Industrial Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students 2009 and at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute associated with The Ohio State University. At North Carolina, I worked on a project in statistically predicting stable drug dosing for Warfarin, and at Ohio, I worked on computing a p-statistic for correlating evolutionary change with geographic spread for flu viruses. As an undergraduate, I was at Texas A&M University in a Research Experience for Undergraduates in algebraic phylogenetic computation in the summer of 2005. I computed phylogenetic invariants for trees with fewer than five leaves. The work can be found at a website maintained by Luis Garcia-Puente
I did an internship at vmWare in 2007 testing the Virtual Infrastructure Client product by creating a Python script that accessed the Application Programming Interface. I created a Java file to submit results to a database. Before that, I worked in automated software testing for Redi2 Technologies in fee billing and in other companies manually testing Windows client database systems. I have extensive experience teaching college mathematics from UC Davis and UC Berkeley. I have tutored students one-on-one and taught as a teaching assistant.
In my free time I enjoy half-marathon running, science fiction, music, movies, and video games.