Organization/Location

Wolfram Research, Inc.
Champaign, Illinois

Degrees

BA in Mathematics, Pomona College
PhD in 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 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