- Updates
- Jul 2024:
Fabiana
Ferracina to join as a research
fellow (postdoc) in Tohoku
university. Congrats, Fabiana!
- Feb 2024:
Two refereed
papers accepted
at IOS2024
(INFORMS Optimization Society
Conference)!
- Apr 2023:
Got the College
of Arts and
Sciences (biggest in WSU) Excellence
in Graduate Teaching award!
- Apr
2023:
Elizabeth
Thompson wins 2nd place in
the WSU
3MT competition. See her
3MT here. Congrats,
Elizabeth!
- Mar
2023:
Fabiana
Ferracina is selected to
the MRC
on Complex Social
Systems. Congrats, Fabiana!
- Jan
2023:
Fabiana
Ferracina to work as a research
intern at PNNL. Congrats,
Fabiana!
- Jul 2022:
Yunqi
Luo to join University
of Science and Technology of China
as a postdoc. Congrats, Yunqi!
- May 2022:
Fabiana
Ferracina is selected to
the IPAM
GRIPS Sendai Summer
program. Congrats, Fabiana!
- Apr 2022:
Awarded the Yang
(Wendy) Liu Excellence in Teaching
Award from the WSU
International Programs. Thanks
much!
- Feb
2022:
Yunqi
to join Alibaba
after her PhD. Congrats, Yunqi!
- Jan
2022:
Kostia
Lyman to work as a research intern
at PNNL. Congrats,
Kostia!
- Jun
2021:
Prashant
to join Natural
Intelligence as a Research
Scientist. Congrats, Prashant!
- Apr
2021:
Yunqi
to work as a Givens
Summer associate at Argonne NL in
Summer 2021. Congrats, Yunqi!
- Apr
2021:
Enrique
to join UC
Davis Math as a Krener
Assistant Professor in Fall
2021. Congrats, Enrique!
- Jan
2021:
Enrique
and Matthew
present their research
at JMM
2021.
- Oct
2020: DELTA
Webinar giving an
overview of Dimension Reduction.
- Sep
2020: AATRN
Webinar on Steinhaus
Filtration and Stable Paths in the
Mapper.
- Sep
2020: MDP_MST:
Python exploration of
the Maximum
Distance Problem using Minimum
spanning Trees.
- Jul 2020: Methun
defends his PhD (in CS), and is joining
as a postdoc in U. Virginia. Congrats
Dr. Kamruzzaman!
- Apr 2020: Our paper
on continuous
toolpaths in 3D printing is accepted
to SPM
2020!
- Apr 2020: I've been selected
to the WSU
President's Teaching Academy!
- Mar 2020: New preprint
on identifying soft matter surface
features using GMT!
- Mar 2020: Webpage for
the DELTA
project is up. See also
the NSF
award.
- Feb 2020: YouTube
Webinar on Introduction to Mapper
- Jan 2020: TEDx
talk on how TDA helps see the
invisible in data!
- Sep 2019: Ben defends his PhD, and
joins WA State Gov (Olympia, WA) as a data
scientist. Congrats, Dr. Rapone!
- Aug 2019: Three new papers on
stable paths in Mapper,
robust feasibility using degree theory, and
continuous toolpaths in 3D printing!
- June 2019:
Matthew
Broussard (AFRL)
and Nathan
May (IPAM
GRIPS-Berlin) head for summer
internships. Congrats to both!
- May 2019: Nathaniel has
joined New Relic
as a machine learning engineer (in
Portland). Congrats!
- Apr 2019: I'm the recipient
of WSUV
Chancellor's Research Award, 2019.
Thanks much to all my students and
coauthors!
- Dec 2018: New paper on Euler transformation of meshes.
- Sep 2018: WSU
News story about my NSF grant.
- Aug 2018: New NSF
grant (2018–2021, sole
PI). Thank you NSF!
- Jun 2018: Paper on
detecting
divergent phenomics subpopulations using
TDA is accepted
in ACM-BCB!
- May 2018: Matthew
Broussard (AFRL), Prashant
Gupta (ORNL),
and Nathaniel
Saul (PNNL)
head for summer internships. Congrats,
all!
- Mar 2018: Nathaniel
Saul is awarded a NASA
Space Grant fellowship (we'll use
TDA for galaxy identification)!
- Feb 2018: New paper
on median
shapes.
- Dec 2017: New paper
on interesting
paths in the Mapper.
Talk
at the Joint
Mathematics Meetings, 2018.
- Nov 2017: Our work
on waste gasification
(preprint)
was featured in the Columbian,
a regional newspaper!
- Nov 2017: I'm featured in this
month's WSU
ResearchNow! web page!
- Jul 2017: New NSF
grant on TDA in Phenomics!! Coverage
in WSU
Press
- Jul 2017: New paper on hypothesis
extraction from phenomics data using
TDA: arXiv.
- Dec 2016: Pullman will be a happening
place in April 2017! Data
Science Day on Apr 21, and the
AMS
Spring Western Sectional Meeting on
Apr 22-23 (my special
sessions: 1, 2, 3).
- Apr 2016: Ben
Rapone receives a Hacker
Graduate Research Award. Congrats
Ben!
- Apr 2016: Bei
Wang and I are organizing a workshop
on Topological
Data Analysis in Biomedicine
in ACM-BCB
2016. We have an excellent list of
speakers. Please encourage your students
to attend!
- Jan 2016: Workshop on Abstract
Algebra and Algebraic Topology in
Biomedicine in PSB
2016
- May 2015: Ben Rapone awarded
a CAS RA
for 2015-2016
- May 2015: REU this summer on
optimization in algebraic topology
- April 2015: Ben
Rapone receives
the Hacker
Teaching Award. Congrats Ben!
- Apr 2015: Our work on knapsack public
key cryptosystems is featured
in the news!
- Jan 2015: Sharif Ibrahim to join (May
2015) Intel
as an Engineer. Congrats Sharif!
- Nov 2014: How to go from discrete to
continuous carefully - see our
new paper
- Oct 2014: Loops
in cancer gene expression data! See
our paper in
PSB
2015
- May 2014: REU this Summer on medical
data interpretation
- Nov 2013: Gavin Smith to
join Intel
as an Engineer. Congrats Gavin!
- Aug 2013: IMA Year
on Applications of
Algebraic Topology
- Apr 2013: Not totally unimodular? Not a problem! See
our new
paper
- Apr 2013: Paper
on Edge
contractions and simplicial homology
- May 2012: Summer
school on geometry and data @ WSU - July 9-27, 2012
- Apr 2012:
Sabbatical in 2012-2013
at OHSU
- Mar 2012: REU this Summer on Computational Topology and
Geometric Analysis
- Nov 2011: Computing
flat norm in arbitrary dimensions
- June 2011: NSF
grant link
2 link
3 (Total budget: $916K/4 yrs for 3 univs)
- Mar 2010: Program
on Modern
Trends in Optimization and Its Application
at IPAM (Sep 12-Dec
17, 2010)
- Feb 2010: Using
integer homology instead of binary homology makes NP-hard
problem tractable
- Dec 2009:
Svetlana Lockwood is
CRA UG Research Award finalist and
Goldwater Scholar
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- About Me
- Research
- Applied algebraic topology
- Geometric measure theory
- Mathematical aspects of 3D printing
- Discrete and nonlinear optimization
- Geometry and topology in physical chemistry
- Computational models for surgical and biomedical applications
- Computational biology
- CV
Funding
- I am grateful to
the NSF
and WA
AGO for funding my research through
several grants over the years. Find out
more about these projects by clicking
the link above.
Students
(Please read this bit, if you're a
student wanting to work with me)
First placement after degree is
listed
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Ye
Tian (PhD,2011); JPMorgan Chase
-
Gavin
Smith (PhD, 2013); Intel
-
Sharif
Ibrahim (PhD, 2014, joint
with Kevin
Vixie); Intel
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Yunfeng
Hu (PhD, 2018, joint
with Kevin
Vixie);
Emsi
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Nathaniel
Saul (MS, 2019); New Relic
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Ben
Rapone (PhD, 2019); Data scientist, WA Gov Office
-
Methun
Kamruzzaman (PhD in CS, 2020,
joint with Ananth
Kalyanaraman); postdoc in U. Virginia
-
Enrique
Alvarado (PhD, 2021, joint
with Kevin
Vixie); Krener
Assistant Professor in UC Davis
-
Matthew
Broussard (PhD, 2021); TD Bank
-
Prashant
Gupta (PhD, 2021); Natural
Intelligence
-
Yunqi
Luo (PhD, 2022); postdoc
in USTC
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Nathan
May (PhD, 2022); Northrup Gruman
-
Kostiantyn
Lyman (PhD, 2024); AMD
-
Fabiana
Ferracina (PhD in Statistics,
2024); research fellow (postdoc) in Tohoku university
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Elizabeth
Thompson (PhD, current)
-
Patrick
Gambill (PhD, current, joint with Daryl DeFord)
-
Liya
Boukhbinder (PhD, current, joint
with Kevin
Vixie)
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Zachary
Fendler (PhD, current)
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Amber
Thrall (PhD, current)
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Nicholas
Jones (PhD, current)
Teaching (all classes I've taught)
The
Connected Picture - my blog (from 'ol times)
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