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My real name: Daniel O'Connor.

I'm an assistant professor in the Mathematics and Statistics department at University of San Francisco.

Background: Applied math PhD at UCLA, researched algorithms for large scale convex optimization with advisor Lieven Vandenberghe. (Here's my PhD thesis.) I did a postdoc in the UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology, where I developed algorithms for radiation treatment planning.

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