Lernik Asserian, Ph.D.

I am a Lecturer at Stanford University. I am also the Director of Stanford Undergraduate Research Institute in Mathematics (SURIM) and Stanford Online Academic Resources (SOAR) instructor. I am a recipient of the 2023 Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award which recognizes distinctive and exceptional contributions to undergraduate education. I received my PhD in Applied Mathematics at University of Southern California (USC), under the supervision of Professor Gary Rosen. As a Teaching Assistant at USC, I received USC Department of Mathematics Theodore Edward Harris Graduate Teaching Prize in Spring 2019. I was also a Lecturer at University of California, Irvine (UCI) in Fall 2020 and Spring 2021, and an Assistant Lecturer at USC in Spring 2021. I got my Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I spent 2.5 years as a student researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) SIRI Internship Program, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) MURF Internship Program, and JPL Year-Round Internship Program, working on various projects in Earth Sciences.

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Contact: lernik@stanford.edu 

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