Resume

I began working with the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2007. UNR has been the most important aspect of my life over the years. I am so grateful to the faculty and staff who have cared for me and guided me to where I am today. I wil be a loyal part of the pack for life.

I have taught calculus and numerical methods in the Math Department for many years, and held various research positions in the CSE labs.

In (2013-1016), I worked on the Google Glass project, simulating the spectral reflections on the human cornea from IR LEDs. Because the Google glass had multiple micro-components, I worked closely with EE and firmware to make sure that the sensors and LEDs were place correctly around the flex board. I concluded my internship by designing a simulation in Autodesk Maya (as a Python plugin) to render the spectral reflections for the physical deviations from the "perfect" eye. I was recognized by Google Inc. for my work in developing the corneal and lens meshes. I later documented the mathematics used for the mesh generation, leading to a patent after we were aquired by Google.

Robert Darwin was the first man to provide empirical evidence on the mechanism of the eye, giving us an insight into this marvelous organ. The eyes use saccades and microsaccades, which may be intentional and / or correctional. The eye is capable of a variety of different kinds of hysteresis, and is a complex system of interacting lenses and sensors. It is also a vitreous body, comparable to jello.

Our eyes are key to our immersion in this world. As the world digitizes, we seek new avenues of interacting with our sight to feel that we are participating on a global level.

While completing my master's degree in Applied Mathematics, and after, (2016-2018) I worked on the Algorithms team. I began with simulations and developed a filter using a Weiner filtering technique.. I modified the open source software Blender and accessed the ray tree (bounding volume heirarchy tree) and designed a sensor that made use of the tree. My work successfully produced a truth-data simulation (with movies!), which was very fast, and proved useful when testing our algorithms. I later derived the mathematical background and documented the completed algorithm in Latex. I won an award for this work!

Just like our 5 senses are important for our health and well-being, sensors are essential for advancements in technology. A sensor framework must be designed that has the capabilities to keep up with recent advances in technology due to machines becoming smaller and faster than ever. The development of sensors remains an active field of research.

Finding schemes for the approximation of time and space in both the spatial and frequency domains is a golden goose for a mathematician. As my favorite algebraist and group theorist, NJ Wildeberger, stated, "The job of a mathematician is to go to the infinite, get something, and bring it back for us to use."

Finally, I began my work as a PhD student under my first advisor, Dr. Ming Li. She taught me how to view networks as living systems, and the language of network scientists. As a privacy researcher, I began to dissasemble network systems, looking for pathways to increase private communication without increasing overhead. I worked in a small lab, and an even smaller message space.

Privacy and internet freedom are critical aspects of being human. My long-time personal hero, Grateful Dead lyricist, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and author of the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, the great and infallible John Perry Barlow, would agree.

Privacy has many definitions. Privacy can mean anonyminity, or privacy can mean trust. Depending on your perspective, we may interchange the meaning of the word privacy to fit our new and digital world. For example, in a group of people making a decision, where some may have more weight, or even veto power, privacy must be preserved to maintain trust. When all members of the group are made aware of the decision, and all agree, does any member need to know that some other members of the group may have had more power? Where is the line drawn where the term privacy is interchangable with trust? This is different from the case where it is known by the group that some members have more power, but these members are unknown, so that privacy means the same as anonyminity.

Different networks with different goals require different solutions, but the meaning of these implementations must be addressed. Also the implementations, which brings me to the wide, wild and wonderful world of Javascript, which I consider to be language of the web. Javascript is designed to be as varied and changing as the systems it represents. It was my first coding language and it has grown so much over the 20 years I have been using it. It reads like a state system, ever changing and influencing the code around it. Javascript is amazing.

I work best in a team, and am able to produce timelines, specifications, and meet deadlines for high-paced startup companies. In addition, I can cleanly contribute to complex projects for prestigious corporations. I am familiar with C, Matlab, C++, Python, cmake, and python bindings to C (Cython).