Meet the Instructors: Rob Knapp

Organization/Location
Wolfram Research, Inc., Champaign, Illinois

Degrees
B.A. Mathematics, Pomona College
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Teaching Experience
Before coming to Wolfram Research, Rob was an assistant professor at Bowdoin College, teaching applied mathematics. He has given numerous lectures and courses on Mathematica.

Mathematica Experience
Rob has been working as a developer on the Mathematica kernel since 1994, primarily working on numerical features. He has worked with other developers on many kernel improvements from Mathematica Version 2.2, including unconstrained optimization, ordinary and partial differential equations, numerical linear algebra, PackedArrays, and SparseArrays. He is the author of the "M185: Numerical Computation in Mathematica" courses.

Language Fluency
English

Interests
Applied mathematics and numerical analysis, particularly partial differential equations; experimental mathematics and mathematical modeling.