Kevin K Lin
Department of Mathematics University of Arizona 617 N. Santa Rita Ave. Tucson, AZ 85721-0089
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Phone: (520) 626-6628 E-mail: klin@math.arizona.edu |
Positions held
- 2013 - 2014: Visiting
Scholar, UC Berkeley
and LBL Math Group
- Fall 2009:
SAMSI Research Fellow
- 2007 -
present: Department of
Mathematics, University of
Arizona
- Associate Head for STEM
Instruction (Spring 2018 - Summer 2021)
- Graduate interdisciplinary
programs: Applied
Mathematics (2008 -
present); Statistics & Data
Science (2014 -
present); Cognitive Science
(2015 -
present); Neuroscience
(2017 - present)
- Associate Head for STEM
Instruction (Spring 2018 - Summer 2021)
- 2003-2007: NSF
Postdoctoral Fellow
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
Mentor: Lai-Sang Young
Education and training
- 2003: PhD
in Mathematics
Hertz Fellow and ARCS Foundation Scholar
University of California at Berkeley
Advisor: Alexandre Chorin
Thesis: Random perturbations of SRB measures and numerical studies of chaotic dynamics - 1997: MEng & SB
in Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
Advisor: Gerald Jay Sussman
Thesis: Coordinate-independent computations on differential equations - 1996: SB in Mathematics
Goldwater Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Funding
- 2023 -
present: Simons
Foundation Travel Support for
Mathematicians MP-TSM-00002687
- 2020 - 2025 (est.): NSF
grant DMS-1937229
RTG: Applied Mathematics and Statistics for Data-Driven
Discovery (PI, with
co-PIs Misha
Chertkov, David
Glickenstein, Laura
Miller, Matti Morzfeld,
and Helen Zhang)
- 2018 - 2021 (est.): NSF
grant DMS-1821286 CDS&E-MSS:
Predictive Modeling and Data-Driven Closure of Chaotic and Noisy
Dynamics in Discrete Time (PI)
- 2014 - 2018: NSF
grant DMS-1418775
Computational Nonlinear Dynamics: Variance Reduction Methods and
Numerical Studies of Large, Chaotic, and Noisy Systems (PI)
- 2009 - 2013: NSF
grant DMS-0907927 Computational
Analysis of Large Dynamical Systems (PI)
- 2003 - 2007:
NSF Mathematical
Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 1999 - 2003: Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
Fellowship
- 1997: ARCS
Foundation Scholarship
- 1995 - 1996: Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship
Current students
Ben Stilin | Applied Mathematics |
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Alexa Aucoin | Applied Mathematics |
Alumni
Jared McBride | PhD, Program in Applied Mathematics, 2023, wrote a dissertation on the estimation of high-contrast spectra via iterated whitening. Jared is now an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Southern Virginia University. |
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Zach Schlamowitz | BS Mathematics 2023. Zach will be attending the Computational Medicine PhD program at UCLA. |
Lane Robert Lewis | Neuroscience and Mathematics, UA Class of 2022. Lane is now studying Statistics/Neural Computation at CMU. |
Florence Dungan | MS Mathematics, 2021. Florence wrote her MS thesis on a nonparametric test for equality of distributions |
Zhuo-Cheng Xiao | PhD, Program in Applied Mathematics, 2020 (co-advised with Jean-Marc Fellous), wrote a dissertation on neuronal oscillations: in hippocampal functions and in simulations. After a Swartz Fellowship at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, Zhuo-Cheng is now an Assistant Professor at NYU-Shanghai. |
Andrew Gordon | BS in Mathematics 2019. Andrew wrote an Honors Thesis on extending the group invariance theorem for perceptrons and went on to work at Epic. |
Patrick Greene | PhD Applied Mathematics 2018. Dissertation: A Bayesian approach to spike sorting of neural data via source localization, now a postdoc in the Neuromedical Control Systems Lab in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University |
Laura Figueroa Resa | Summer student 2016 (co-advising with Tracy Stepien) visiting from UNAM via UA Global Initiative |
Lizzie Hannah | BS in Mathematics UA 2017. Lizzie wrote an Honors Thesis on constraining frisbee tracking methods through Bayesian analysis of flying disc models; the project is really the brainchild of Physics graduate student Tom McClintock. Lizzie is now studying law at the University of Arizona. |
Dustin Keys | BS in Mathematics UA 2012. Dustin earned a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2022. |
Andrew Leach | PhD Applied Mathematics 2017 (co-advised with Matti Morzfeld) wrote a dissertation on Monte Carlo methods for stochastic differential equations and their applications. Andrew now works at Google. |
David Lyttle | PhD Applied Mathematics 2013 (co-advised with Jean-Marc Fellous). Dissertation: Inhibition-mediated neural dynamics in the rodent spatial navigation system. David was awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University. He is now a scientist at Finch Therapeutics. |
Kyle Marshall | BS in Mathematics UA 2009. Kyle earned a PhD in from the University of Zürich. |
Megan Shearer | BS in Mathematics UA 2016. Megan wrote a thesis on implicit sampling and particle filters, and earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 2022. |
Vera Thornton | BS in Mathematics UA 2017. Vera wrote two Honors Theses, one with me on in-silico evolution of gene regulatory networks and another with Bob Wilson on decsion making. Vera is now a MD/PhD candidate at Washington University in St Louis. |
Jason Xu | BS in Mathematics UA 2012. Jason wrote an Honors Thesis on MCMC, went on to earn a PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington. After an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biomathematics at UCLA, he is now an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Duke University. |