Curriculum Vitae

Education
University of California at Davis
PhD in Mathematics, 2002
Advisor: Arthur J. Krener
Thesis: Local Solutions of the Dynamic Programming Equations and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDE

University of California at Berkeley
BA in Mathematics, 1997

Academic Positions
Clarkson University, Department of Mathematics, Potsdam, NY
Assistant Professor, 2008 - present

RIT, Department of Mathematics, Rochester, NY
Assistant Professor, 2007 - 2008

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Signal and Image Processing Research Unit (ETIS)
Cergy-Pontoise, FRANCE
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006 - 2007
Mentor: Lieven De Lathauwer

University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA
NSF-VIGRE Assistant Professor, 2003 - 2006
Mentor: Stanley J. Osher

University of Waterloo, Department of Applied Mathematics, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002 - 2003
Mentor: Kirsten A. Morris

University of California at Davis, Department of Mathematics, Davis, CA
Research and Teaching Assistant, 1997 - 2002
Advisor: Arthur J. Krener


Academic Honors and Awards
2009-2012, NSF Computational Mathematics Research Grant Award, Principal Investigator, DMS-0915100

2006-2007, CNRS Postdoctoral Fellowship, France

2003-2006, NSF-VIGRE Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCLA

2002, Alice Leung Mathematical Prize, UC Davis Math Department

2001, Best Poster Prize, Richard Tapia Symposium 2001

2000-2001, Research Mentorship Fellowship, UC Davis

1999-2002, Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship, UC Davis Math Department

1992-1996, NASA Junior Fellowship, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California

1992, Robert Moretti Scholarship, UC Berkeley

1991-1992, NASA SHARP Apprenticeship, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California

Academic Visits
Aug 18-19, 2009, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk, Belgium
(host: Lieven De Lathauwer)

Aug 12-13, 2009, RICAM, Johannes Kepler Universitat, Linz, Austria
(host: Stefan Kindermann)

Feb 12-14, 2009, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
(host: Kirsten Morris)

July 14-15, 2008, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
(host: Arthur J. Krener)

June 9-10, 2008, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore, California
(host: Tammy Kolda)

Oct 22-25, 2007, IPAM, Numerical Tools and Fast Algorithms for Massive Data Mining, Search Engines and Applications, UCLA, Los Angeles, California

July 30-Aug 10, 2007, CeVis, Universitat Bremen, Germany
(host: Tobias Pressuer)

Aug 14-17, 2007, RICAM, Johannes Kepler Universitat, Linz, Austria
(host: Stefan Kindermann)

June 4-15, 2007, IMA, Compressive Sampling and Frontiers of Signal Processing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Aug 28-31, 2006, INRIA Rhones Alpes, Grenoble, France
(host: Emmanuel Prados)

Publications
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Presentations
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Teaching Activities
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Professional Activities
Referee Work:
SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis
EURASIP Journal of Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Proceedings of the European Signal Processing (EUSIPCO)
Proceedings IEEE Conference of Control and Decision (CDC)
Proceedings of European Control Conference
Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC)

Minisymposium Organizer:
Applied Inverse Problem, Vienna, 2009 with Stefan Kindermann
SIAM Conference on Optimization, Boston, 2008 with Tobias Pressuer
SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, San Francisco, 2007 with Wei Kang

AWM Graduate Student Mentor: 2006 -present (Xuemei Chen, Vanderbilt University and Ladorian Latin, Louisiana State University)

Graduate Committee Member: 2008 - present

PhD Thesis Committee Member: 2009 (Brendan Mascarenhas)

Honors Thesis Committee Member: 2008 (Matt Parno)