Resume

• 2010

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Thesis: \"Classification of Dirac Homogeneous Spaces\"\nResearch Area / Keywords: Differential & Poisson geometry

  Lie Group theory

  Courant Algebroids

  Groupoids

  Mathematics

  Graduate student financial math reading group.\nSymplectic seminar.

  University of Toronto

  Hydrogen Sulphide Safety Training - H2S Alive!

  Enform

• 2009

  Master of Science (MS)

  Mathematics

  University of Toronto

• 2003

  Honours Bachelor of Science

  Mathematics and Physics

  Physics and Astronomy Student Union (VP Academic)

  CUPC Organizing Committee

  Physics Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

  University of Toronto

• [1411.2958] The Classification of Dirac Homogeneous Spaces

  PhD Thesis

  Abstract: A well known result of Drinfeld classifies Poisson Lie groups $(H

  \\Pi)$ in terms of Lie algebraic data in the form of Manin triples $(\\mathfrak{d}

  \\mathfrak{g}

  \\mathfrak{h})$; he also classified compatible Poisson structures on $H$-homogeneous spaces $H/K$ in terms of Lagrangian subalgebras $\\mathfrak{l}\\subset\\mathfrak{d}$ with $\\mathfrak{l}\\cap\\mathfrak{h}=\\mathfrak{k}=\\mathrm{Lie}(K)$.

  [0811.0608] Dynamics and Stability of Light-Like Tachyon Condensation

  Abstract: Recently

  Hellerman and Schnabl considered the dynamics of unstable D-branes in the background of a linear dilaton. Remarkably

  they were able to construct light-like tachyon solutions which interpolate smoothly between the perturbative and nonperturbative vacua

  without undergoing the wild oscillations that plague time-like solutions.

  University Teaching

  Public Speaking

  Analytical Thinking

  Data Analysis

  Research

  Mathematical Modeling

  LaTeX

  Mathematics

  Pandas

  Time Series Analysis

  Science

  Algorithms

  Python

  Teaching

  Statistics

  Physics

  Problem Solving

  Analytical Skills

  Curriculum Design

  Maple

  Dynamics and Stability of Light-Like Tachyon Condensation

  Neil Barnaby

  Examining late-time stability for p-adic string driven inflation with non-trivial ghost modes.

  Dynamics and Stability of Light-Like Tachyon Condensation

  Robinson

  BrainStation

  University of Toronto

  Indigo

  Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

  Validere

  Electronica AI

  University of Toronto

  Course Instructor for MAT135 - Calculus 1(A):\n• Conduct weekly lecture sessions.\n• Hold weekly office hours and individual appointments to assist students.\n• Assist with the construction and invigilation of examinations.\n• Responsible for marking questions on the final examination for all students

  together with the other instructors.

  University of Toronto

  Course Coordinator / Instructor

  Coordinated MAT301 - Groups and Symmetries during the summer session: \n• Created course curriculum.\n• Conducted weekly lecture sessions.\n• Constructed problem sets and examinations.\n• Created lecture notes in LaTeX

  published to the course website.\n• Held weekly office hours and individual appointments to assist students.

  University of Toronto

  Doctoral Researcher

  Doctoral research on \"The Classification of Dirac Homogeneous Spaces\".

  University of Toronto

  Electronica AI

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Provided model validation of medium-frequency futures trading strategies to determine viability using a Python backtester. Developed Python scripts to handle data processing

  cleaning

  and visualization. Managed live trade algorithms with X_Trader’s ADL language. Developed and maintained the execution side of a trading system

  linking ADL algorithms in X_Trader with a proprietary forecasting system

  using Excel VBA as an intermediary.

  Quantitative Developer / Data Scientist

  NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award holder: \n• Directed research under Dr Neil Barnaby in light-like tachyon condensation in models for early universe string-driven inflation. \n• Co-authored paper published in the Journal of High Energy Physics (arXiv:0811.0608).

  Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

  Validere

  Toronto

  Data Scientist

  Scarborough

  Ontario

  • Duties included shelving and merchandising books

  assisting customers

  pulling book returns

  cycle counting (ongoing inventory assessments).\n• Helped to organise

  and participated in

  store-wide events such as the Harry Potter releases.\n• Volunteer member of the Health & Safety Committee: performed regular store safety inspections

  organised and attended monthly meetings.

  Customer Experience Representative

  Indigo

  St George & Scarborough Campuses

  • Run weekly tutorials.\n• Mark assignments and tests.\n• Provide one-on-one help in the math aid centre.\n• Hold regular office hours for further assistance.

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  University of Toronto

  Toronto

  Solo content creator for the fall data science course

  including curriculum design

  programming

  and Jupyter Notebook construction. I work closely with the product management team to design and update curriculum

  with feedback from the Vancouver lead educator and Toronto teaching assistants.

  Content Creator

  BrainStation

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Lead educator for the data science course. Curriculum includes introduction to Python with Pandas and NumPy

  data cleaning and visualizing (matplotlib and Bokeh)

  review of statistics and linear algebra

  numerical modelling (linear & multiple linear regression

  polynomial regression

  spline interpolation

  and issues with overfitting)

  classification (logistic regression

  decision trees

  naive Bayes)

  model validation (statistical hypothesis testing

  p-values

  distributions and test statistics

  training/test sets

  cross-validation)

  and an overview of further topics in the field (cost functions

  optimization methods including gradient descent and differential evolution

  random forests

  and an introduction to (MLP) neural networks using the MNIST data set as a motivating example).

  Lead Educator - Data Science

  BrainStation

  Instructor for IFP014 - Engineering Foundations in Mathematics. Created course curriculum for second half of the course

  conducted weekly lecture sessions

  constructed and graded problem sets and tests.

  University of Toronto

  Victoria College

  Clara Flavelle McEachren Scholarship

  NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award

  University of Toronto Scholarship

  Blyth Fellowship

  Malcolm Slingsby Robertson Fellowship in Mathematics