An analysis of a fair division protocol for drawing legislative districts
De Silva, J., Gales, B., Kagy, B., & Offner, D. (2018). An analysis of a fair division protocol for drawing legislative districts. arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05705.
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Education
- Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, 2026 (expected)
- M.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, 2021
- B.A. in Physics, Wake Forest University, 2019
- B.S. in Mathematics, Wake Forest University, 2019
Research experience
- Fall 2023-Present: Research Assistant
- University of Arizona
- Project: Novel Modeling and Design of Bioelectrochemical Reactor for Reverse Methanogenesis
- Supervisor: Dr. Ingmar Riedel-Kruse
- Spring 2020 - Fall 2021: Research Assistant
- University of Arizona
- Project: Contextual and Norm Agnostic Linear Bandits
- Supervisors: Dr. Sunder Sethuraman and Dr. Kwang-Sung Jun
- Fall 2017 - Spring 2019: Undergraduate Honors Thesis
- Wake Forest University
- Mathematics of the Head Injury Criterion
- Supervisor: Dr. John Gemmer
- Summer 2018: Summer Undergraduate Researcher
- Summer Undergraduate Applied Mathematics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Project: An Analysis of a Fair Division Protocol for Drawing Legislative Districts.
- Supervisors: Dr. David Offner and Dr. Jessica De Silva
Selected Awards and Fellowships
- NITMB Travel Award, 2025
- Roots for Resiliance Data Science Scholarship, 2021
- Starr Travel Grant, Wake Forest University, 2019
- SIAM Travel Grant, 2018
- RTG Topology and Geomoetry Workshop Travel Grant, University of Notre Dame, 2018
Skills
- Programming: MATLAB, Julia, Python, Mathematica, Gephi, Maple
Publications
Norm Agnostic Linear Bandits
Spencer B. Gales, Sunder Sethuraman, Kwang-Sung Jun Proceedings of The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR 151:73-91, 2022.
Selected Presentations
Norm-Agnostic Linear Bandits
Talk and Poster at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistic (AISTATS) , Virtual
Bioreactor model of methane utilization for product synthesis via engineered biofilm.
Poster at National Insisute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) Convergence Conference, Chicago, IL
Teaching
Academic Service and Leadership
- University of Arizona SIAM Chapter
- President (Fall 2021 - Spring 2022)
- Vice President (Fall 2020 - Spring 2021) and secondary coordinator for Brown Bag Seminar
- Wake Forest University
- Pi Mu Epsilon and Math Club President (2018-2019)