Ed Chen.

04.15.2023

Accepted NYU Courant PhD offer in Mathematics

04.16.2023

Awarded NumFocus grant to develop documentation for CVXPY convex optimization library

04.05.2023

Funded through CA position for CS 246: Graduate Mining Massive Datasets

02.07.2023

Recieved NYU Courant PhD Offer in Mathematics

11.28.2022

Funded through CA position for CS 448B: Graduate Data Visualization

09.30.2022

Funded through CA position for CS 149: Parallel Programming

04.15.2022

Accepted Stanford MS Offer in ICME

03.15.2022

Recieved Rice PhD Offer, Stanford, NYU, UW MS Offers

2023-Now

New York University

PhD Mathematics

2022-2023

Stanford University

MS Computational and Mathematical Engineering

2020-2022

Georgia Tech

BS Mathematics

2018-2020

UC Berkeley

2022-Now

Stanford University

Course Assistant, Department of CS

2021-2022

Julia Computing

Modeling and Simulation Intern, JuliaSim

2021-2022

Georgia Tech

Teaching Assistant, Department of CSE
Course Grader, Department of Mathematics

2020-2021

NASA Supercomputing

Research Associate, Computational Aerosciences

2019-2021

UC Berkeley

Course Reader, Department of Mathematics
Research Assistant, Department of EECS

2018-2019

University of Arizona

Research Assistant, Department of Bioengineering

Now

Accelerated High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

(Stanford) Leveraged Jax to optimize Discontinuous Galerkin numerical method code, to understand methods of parallelizing numerical methods across CPUs/GPUs/TPUs using matrix computations to enable compiler-driven parallelism
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2022

Task-based Parallel Multigrid and Adaptive Mesh Refinement FEM Solver

(Stanford) Developing a quadratic finite element solver with multigrid and adaptive mesh refinement accelerations using Regent, a Nvidia Legate based research task-based parallel language for proof of concept purposes
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2022

Space Mission Logistics Discrete Event Simulation Framework

(Georgia Tech) Developed generalized discrete event simulation model of space mission timelines, providing logistical and risk analyses. Testing on a conceptual operation of a future Mars mission
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2022

Intersectional Demographic Regression Analysis of University Employee Salaries

(Georgia Tech) Regression analyses on individual and intersectional demographic factors affecting faculty salaries to determine best predictors across five public university systems
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2021

Portable OpenMP CPU/GPU Parallelization of Iterative Methods

(NASA Supercomputing) Developed CPU and GPU portable iterative method solvers with new OpenMP implementations across different specialized compilers. Performance profiling and optimization across different pragmas and strategies
Document Notes

2021

Correlative Analysis and Visualization of Transportation Ecosystems

(Georgia Tech) Used confounding factors within historical congestion data to develop predictive autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) analyses, modeling the cyclic nature of transit demand
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2021

Buzzbook Course Discovery Platform

(Georgia Tech) Developing a one-stop course planning platform to aggregate a course catalog, a requirements planner, visualized grading distributions, enrollment histories, a schedule optimizer, a ratings system, a course recommender, and an exam/syllabi database.
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2020

Efficient Computational Methods for Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities

(UC Berkeley) Implemented and formulated efficient variations of the Uzawa and GMRES algorithms applied to the matrix computations arising from the numerical solution to the instabilities observed from the 2d Euler Equations for inviscid flows

2020

Natural Convection Boundary-Layer Flow Analysis

(UC Berkeley) Finite-difference method numerical modeling of hydrodynamically and thermally developed convective flow of different fluids in various geometries and analysis of their behaviors, comparison of scheme efficacies with dimensionless quantities
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2019

Time-Harmonic Wave Propagation Simulation in Waveguides

(UC Berkeley) Rigorous formulation and implementation of quadratic finite elements and custom meshing algorithm to simulate frequency response and resonance phenomena of a waveguide using the 2D Helmholtz Equation with Sommerfeld radiation conditions
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2019

Optimal Traffic Signal Timing with a Continuum Flow Congestion Model

(UC Berkeley) Rigorous implementation of finite volume schemes (Godunov, Roe) in evaluating the Lighthill-Whitham-Richards traffic model, a flow-based traffic congestion model based on vehicle density that accounts for disturbance shocks
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2019

Efficiency of a Domain-based Fog Computing Architecture

(UC Berkeley) Devised and implemented a discrete event simulation of a domain-based fog architecture model and demonstrated different queuing methods (FCFS, EDF, CR) to improve QoS for fog networks, formulating and modeling a discrete-event simulation based on various constraints on job size, deadline, and location.
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2018

A Method of Modeling Asteroid Intercept Trajectory

(Independent) Developed a 3D N-body simulation of the solar system and modeled possible intercept trajectories to a celestial object using convex optimization strategies with a time-iterating RK4 approximation method.
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Sp 2023

CS 246 (Stanford)

Course Assistant, Graduate Mining Massive Datasets

Wi 2023

CS 448B (Stanford)

Course Assistant, Graduate Data Visualization

Au 2022

CS 149 (Stanford)

Course Assistant, Parallel Computing

Sp 2022

Math 6321 (Georgia Tech)

Grader, Graduate Complex Analysis

Sp 2022

CSE 6242 (Georgia Tech)

Head Teaching Assistant, Graduate Data and Visual Analytics

Fa 2021

CSE 6242 (Georgia Tech)

Teaching Assistant, Graduate Data and Visual Analytics

Fa 2021

Math 121A (Berkeley)

Grader, Mathematical Methods for Physical Sciences

Sp 2021

Math 121B (Berkeley)

Grader, Mathematical Methods for Physical Sciences

Fa 2020

Math 185 (Berkeley)

Grader, Introduction to Complex Analysis

Math

Mathematical Methods Mathematical Programming Introductory Analysis Algebra FEM

Physics

Classical Mechanics Tensor Calculus

CS

Julia Fundamentals Database Systems Webdev

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Last Update

Jan 18, 2023