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Career

· Quant Developer, Jump Trading2022–
· Vice President, D. E. Shaw2011–2021
· Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College2005–2011
· Research Professor, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute2005–2006
· Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Informatics2003–2003
· Computer Science, Duke University
· Bachelor of Science, Stanford University
· Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
· Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Publications (62)

Topological Persistence and Simplification
Proceedings 41st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science · 2000
2,604
cited
Computing Persistent Homology
SCG '04 · 2004
2,035
cited
On the Local Behavior of Spaces of Natural Images
International Journal of Computer Vision · 2007
593
cited
Persistence barcodes for shapes
Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing · 2004
441
cited
Hierarchical Morse—Smale Complexes for Piecewise Linear 2-Manifolds
Discrete & Computational Geometry · 2003
337
cited
Hierarchical morse complexes for piecewise linear 2-manifolds
SCG '01 · 2001
250
cited
Technical Section: Fast construction of the Vietoris-Rips complex
2010
237
cited
A barcode shape descriptor for curve point cloud data
Computers & graphics · 2004
142
cited
Computing Multidimensional Persistence
Journal of Computational Geometry · 2009
127
cited
Localized Homology
Shape Modeling International Conference · 2007
118
cited
Topology for Computing (Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics)
2005
102
cited
Fast software for box intersections
SCG '00 · 2000
84
cited
The tidy set: a minimal simplicial set for computing homology of clique complexes
SCG · 2010
72
cited
Computing and Comprehending Topology: Persistence and Hierarchical Morse Complexes
2001
69
cited
Colon polyp detection using smoothed shape operators: Preliminary results
Medical Image Anal. · 2008
57
cited
The conformal alpha shape filtration
The Visual Computer · 2006
41
cited
Advances in Applied and Computational Topology
2012
37
cited
Eurographics Symposium on Point-based Graphics (2005) Conformal Alpha Shapes
35
cited
The Monty Hall Problem
1998
35
cited
Geometric filtering of pairwise atomic interactions applied to the design of efficient statistical potentials
Computer Aided Geometric Design · 2006
26
cited
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