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I am a product manager and a proud University of Pittsburgh alumnus - Hail to Pitt!

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Patents

• Auction system for augmented reality experiences in a messaging system (link) pending as of 2022
• Selecting ads for video within messaging system (link) pending as of 2022
• System to determine a price-schedule to distribute media content (link) granted in 2021
• Accounting for online system user actions occurring greater than a reasonable amount of time after presenting content to the users when selecting content for users (link) granted in 2019

Publications

• Pattern Formation in a Model of Acute Inflammation (link) published April 2012 in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
  • This paper makes my Erdős number 4 based on this link: Kevin Penner, George Bard Ermentrout, Charles Allan Hall, John W. Kennedy, Paul Erdős!
  • Check out this mesmerizing simulation we ran where order emerges from chaos:

• Subset Selection Algorithms: Randomized vs. Deterministic (link) published May 2010 in SIAM Undergraduate Research Online

Notes

• Explanation of least squares regression via matrix analysis PDF from 2012
• Explanation of why use least squares regression PDF from 2010
• Explanation of the Gambler’s Ruin problem PDF from 2009
• Explanation of the Monty Hall problem PDF from 2009
• Economics of Open Source Software PDF from 2009

Competitions

• 2009 Mathematical Contest in Modeling
  • The MCM is a worldwide competition where two undergraduate classmates and I spent four days working on “Designing a Traffic Circle.” Our solution (submission PDF) was designated a Meritorious Winner (top 20% worldwide, see results PDF).
• 2004 HP Code Wars
  • Two classmates and I represented our high school in a coding competition. Wrote C++ code and submitted it on floppy disks.

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