...While some math students learn best by just "following the steps" and memorizing an algorithm I also understand some students need to know the answer to the question of "Why do I need to know this?". For those students I attempt to go out of my way to give real life examples of how they would us... (read more)
Hi, I’m Alex! I have a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science. I graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.9 and a Math GPA of 3.8, earning As in all of the introductory math courses, including Calculus 1/2/3, Linear Algebra and Combinatorics/Graph Theory. (read more)
...I am a PhD Candidate in Biology where my research focuses on quantitative and computational biology and the evolution of genomes. This means that I use computation as a integral part of my research program, including Perl. I am fluent in Perl, and have been using it for 9 years in my research. (read more)