CV

Education

• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)

Work experience

• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • Github University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • Github University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

Power weighted shortest paths for clustering Euclidean data

McKenzie, Daniel and Damelin, Steven. (2019). "Power weighted shortest paths for clustering Euclidean data. " Foundations of Data Science. 1(3).

Compressive sensing for cut improvement and local clustering

Who killed Lilly Kane? A case study in applying knowledge graphs to crime fiction.

Zeroth Order Regularized Optimization (ZORO): Approximately sparse gradients and adaptive sampling.

A zeroth-order block coordinate descent algorithm for huge-scale black-box optimization.

Learn to predict equilibria via Fixed Point Networks.

Curvature-Aware Derivative-Free Optimization.

Adapting zeroth order algorithms for comparison-based optimization.

Balancing geometry and density: Path distances on high dimensional data.

From the simplex to the sphere: Faster constrained optimization using the Hadamard parametrization.

JFB: Jacobian-Free Backpropagation for Implicit Networks.

A one-bit, comparison-based gradient estimator.

Talks

Cut Improvement and Clustering using Compressive Sensing.

April 16, 2020

Seminar at Math. of Data Science Virtual Lecture Series, Tufts University (online)

Learning to predict Nash equilibria from data.

July 20, 2021

Conference at SIOP21, online

A zeroth-order block coordinate descent algorithm for huge-scale black-box optimization.

July 20, 2021

Conference at ICML2021, online

Teaching

Precalculus

Calculus 1

Calculus 3

Mathematics of Data Theory

Introduction to Statistics

Honors Applied Numerical Methods

Linear Algebra

Computational Linear Algebra

Linear Algebra

Service and leadership

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