About

Hi, I'm Alex. I recently completed my PhD at Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, where I studied under the supervision of Dr. Samy Wu Fung and Dr. Luis Tenorio.

Currently, I am a senior data scientist at NerdWallet after surviving a successful exit from fintech startup, On The Barrelhead. Prior to that, I worked at a variety of engineering companies working on practical design problems in engineering and control.

I am interested in the intersection of deep learning with optimal transport and optimal control to aid in solving practical problems in physics, finance, medicine, and data science. In particular, I am broadly interested in optimal transport, optimal control, inverse problems, and deep learning.

Please enjoy this gif made using my upcoming work in optimal control: