Career/life path? Here

Favorite quotes?

• "Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weight."
  -Ronnie Coleman
• "You solve one problem and you solve the next one and then the next. And if you solve enough problems, you get to come home."
  -from The Martian
• "C is for cookie, that's good enough for me."
  - Cookie Monster

Favorite area of math? I like working on applied problems that are not solvable using standard off-the-shelf techniques. Instead, a solution is achieved by leveraging domain-specific structure of the problem:

1. compile heuristics based on domain expertise,
2. unify them into a coherent mathematical framework, and
3. generalize it to all necessary use-cases while keeping it elegant enough that the engineering implementation remains feasible.