Hossein Noorazar, Ph.D. (Applied Mathematician)
Currently, I am a postdoc at Hydro group of WSU with Biological Systems Engineering, Working on remote sensing applications in the field of agriculture.
I received my degree in July, 2017. My dissertation was about modeling opinion dynamics. Opinion dynamics (also referred to as opinion game) models evolution of agents’ opinion in a network. How they learn and their opinion change, the effect of existence of propaganda nodes (such as TV), etc.
Initially, I was working on numerical linear algebra, specifically (generalized) eigenvalue problems and solving linear systems. I worked for a while on developing a method for eigenvalue problem based on IDR(s) for solving linear systems when I realized everything I did was already done. (So, Google before you do!).
Moreover, the matrices generated by this method were too ill-conditioned (unstable if you will), where I noticed MATLAB is not functioning properly on these matrices. Then, I switched to the opinion game project.
A day after my graduation I was handed a project in image analysis area. I loved it. I am working to master image processing, statistical learning (a.k.a ML), and data science any chance I get.
I always loved analysis. It is on top of the pyramid of my interests. It is like a playground, you can be playful and creative with it. These, image processing and ML, are areas that both involve mathematical analysis.
Freelance/Internship.
2015: Developing a method and prototyping it for a detecting rust on oil exploitation equipments' images (Sailfan.io).
I would like to mention that I was a committee member of the following events. I was involved with raising fund and logistics to organize these events.
2nd Annual Data Science Days, WSU, 2017
AMS sectional meeting, WSU, 2017
1st Annual Data Science Days, WSU, 2016
Distinguished Speaker Series in Data Science, 2015 and 2016
Research Experience
As mentioned above I have experience with numerical linear algebra. More specifically eigenvalue problem and solving linear systems.
I did four papers on opinion dynamics which can be found on arXiv, the first of which, An energy-based interaction model for population opinion dynamics with topic coupling, is available also at International Journal of Modern Physics C.
Teaching Experience
I have taught the following courses at Washington State University both as a sole instructor (SI) and a lab instructor (LI).
As a sole instructor, my classes have consisted of 30-120 freshmen/junior students of non-math majors and I had a chance to teach mathematics to people who were new to mathematics by preparing lectures and exams. As a lab instructor, I worked with graduate students and more advanced undergrad students. My teaching experiences are listed below (I have a bad habit of deleting everything, so, I have only the webpage of the last course I taught over summer 2017.)
Linear Algebra, Summer 2017 (SI).
Calc III and Discrete Math (LI).
Applied Mathematics and Linear Algebra (LI).
Linear Algebra, WSU (SI).
Calculus, WSU (SI).
Exploring Mathematics, WSU (SI).
Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning, WSU (LI).
“Finesse is the key to satisfaction & mark of passion.” - WW.
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