Mitch Keller
Associate Director Of Undergraduate Studies
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitch Keller is a mathematician and educator with a decade-long career blending combinatorics research and undergraduate curriculum leadership, currently serving as Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He directs advising, assessment, and curriculum design while also managing the long-running Mathematics Genealogy Project, supervising student data managers and representing the project to the mathematical community. Mitch pairs rigorous research on posets with practical open-educational-resources engineering, contributing full-stack improvements to the PreTeXt publishing system—most notably enhancing EPUB/Kindle workflows, image handling, and endnote/biography support. His background includes teaching and research posts across research universities and liberal-arts colleges, and earlier work on graph-mining algorithms for defense labs, reflecting a rare combination of classroom leadership, open-source development, and applied algorithmic experience.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at North Dakota State University
German, English
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
PreTeXtBook/pretext
May 2016 - Jul 2022
PreTeXt: an authoring and publishing system for scholarly documents
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 68 commits, 35 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mitch primarily contributed to the EPUB conversion process within the PreTeXt system. Their work involved modifying build scripts and XSL stylesheets to improve the EPUB output, including adding CSS, adjusting image handling, and improving the table of contents. They also added features like including biographies and endnotes while fixing bugs related to inline math and applying the correct CSS files based on the output format, Kindle or EPUB.
stempublishingpdfpretexttextbook
active-calculus/prep
Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
Active Prelude to Calculus
Contributions:33 commits, 19 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 9 months
dependent-typescalculusrubypreludeagda
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