Luis Polanco
Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Polanco is a graduate research and teaching assistant at Michigan State University pursuing a Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering with a decade of academic experience in applied algebraic topology and topological data analysis. He combines strong theoretical foundations from a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics with practical computational skills in Python, Matlab, Mathematica and LaTeX to tackle data-driven geometric problems. At MSU he has balanced research and instruction since 2016, building coursework and mentoring undergraduates while advancing thesis work. His background includes teaching roles at Universidad de Los Andes, giving him cross-cultural academic experience and proven pedagogical ability. Colleagues note his comfort moving between rigorous proofs and numerical experimentation, making him effective at translating abstract math into reproducible computational workflows. Based in East Lansing, he is focused on bringing topological methods to applied problems in science and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State UniversityUniversidad de los Andes
English, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lucho8908/adaptive_template_systems
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 5 months
lucho8908/lens_coordinates
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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