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- I am currently Senior Teaching Faculty in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- I am looking for a tenured professor position.
- I am the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Notices of the American Mathematical Society (see my page about this)
- Current academic CV (includes contact details)
- Google Scholar profile
- My name is rather common: note that my ORCID is 0000-0002-3343-7458 and Scopus author ID is 7408665883.
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- My research centers on applications of computer science/mathematics/data science to social science. I have also been active in computational discrete mathematics. I have a strong bias toward and experience in interdisciplinary research.
- I am an editorial board member of the New Zealand Journal of Mathematics and academic editor for PeerJ Computer Science.
- I am the founder and current president of Free Journal Network and maintainer of the Twitter account, and was a founding board member of MathOA .
Born in New Zealand, I received BSc(Hons) from University of Canterbury and PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison, both in mathematics. My PhD genealogy : Donald Passman, Richard Brauer, Issai Schur, Georg Frobenius, Karl Weierstrass (Brauer apparently had two supervisors, so another line goes back to Hilbert, Klein, et al.). My Erdos number is 2. I was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (= Assistant Professor/tenured Associate Professor) at University of Auckland School of Computer Science 2001-2019.
When I was much younger, I was a junior chess champion and quiz champion. The 1988 NZ University Challenge final is available to those in NZ. I play some chess online at chess.com. I have also played competitive Scrabble in the past. Other activities that I have some skill at include badminton and downhill skiing.