Osman Akar


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I am working as Quantitative Research Analyst at Graham Capital Management. Prior to that I was a PhD student of applied mathematics at UCLA working under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Teran. And before that I graduated with BS in Mathematics of Computation and MA in Mathematics from UCLA in 2019 under Departmental Scholars Program. I was the sole recipent of Math Undergraduate Merit Scholarship in the class of 19' and gold medalist in 55th International Mathematical Olympiad in 2014.

Here is my resume (last updated 11/24).

Updates

2/25: Joined Graham Capital Management as a Quantitative Research Analyst.

11/24: I successfully defended my thesis Novel Applications of Neural Networks in Physics-Based Simulations.

7/23: Our paper A Deep Conjugate Direction Method for Iteratively Solving Linear Systems is published at ICML.

6/22: Joined Epic Games as a Research Intern.

5/22: Passed Advancement to Candidacy.

6/19: Graduated from UCLA with BS in Math of Computation and MA in Mathematics.