Aleksandr Aravkin
Director Of Mathematical Sciences
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAleksandr Aravkin is Director of Mathematical Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and founder of Perceptron Consulting, bringing 17 years of experience applying optimization, statistical modeling, and computational methods to medical, physical, and engineering problems. He combines hands-on algorithm development with academic leadership as an associate professor and data science fellow at the University of Washington, bridging research and practical impact. His background spans industry research at IBM, postdoctoral work, and applied consulting for litigation and data-driven decision making, highlighting a rare mix of theoretical depth and real-world deployment. Trained with a PhD in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Statistics from UW, he is known for turning complex mathematical tools into robust solutions for health metrics and engineering challenges.
18 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at University of Washington
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (26)
curve-fitting10
solver9
splines8
dimensions6
weighted6
modeling5
geodesy5
algorithms5
robotics4
smooth4
testcase4
julia4
root-finding3
statistical-models3
optimization3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UW-AMO/IPsolve
Apr 2013 - Jan 2017
Interior point solver for PLQ densities
Contributions:125 commits, 2 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 years 9 months
pointdensitiesinteriorsolver
lheagy/spgl1
Jul 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:54 commits in 11 months
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