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• Research
• Curriculum Vitae
• About Me
• Coursework
• Teaching

Research

My research focuses on developing statistical designs for clinical trials in medicine. Currently I am working on adaptive sequential procedures for subgroup selection or targeted therapies. My thesis adviser is Professor Bruce Turnbull. In addition, I am very interested in topics such as finance, data mining and simulation.

As an undergraduate, I did a senior research project advised by Professors Daniel Plante and Denise Szecsei. The project was also sponsored by Applicon in Iceland.

Curriculum Vitae

My CV, recent as of May 6, 2009.

About Me

I started my undergraduate work at the University of Iceland in 2002, studying mathematics. A year later, I transferred to Stetson University in hot-and-humid Florida on a music scholarship. After completing my degree at Stetson, I worked at Applicon in Iceland for eight months as an SAP consultant, before coming to Cornell to commence Ph.D. studies.

Some random facts:

• Before jumping into the world of mathematics, I used to fly small planes for fun.
• I play ice hockey with a nice group of CS graduate students at Cornell (They welcome beginners; I had no clue how to skate when I first arrived at Cornell!)
• I enjoy playing many other sports, such as soccer, football, badminton, golf, swimming and table tennis.
• I have played the violin since I was 10 years old. I also play the viola, though this sort of mixing is frowned upon by violinists and violists alike.

Coursework

TITLE	DEPT	NO.	INSTRUCTOR
Fall 2006
Mathematical Programming I	ORIE	630	D. Shmoys
Applied Stochastic Processes	ORIE	650	M. Lewis
Statistical Principles	ORIE	670	B. Turnbull
Spring 2007
Nonlinear Programming	ORIE	632	A. Lewis / M. Todd
Intermediate Applied Statistics	ORIE	671	T. Apanasovich
Probability	ORIE	729	G. Samorodnitsky
Fall 2007
Advanced Stochastic Processes	ORIE	662	S. Weber
Bayesian Statistics and Data Analysis	ORIE	678	D. Ruppert
Statistical Learning Theory	BTRY	694	G. Hooker
Probability Theory I (audit)	MATH	671	E. Dynkin
Spring 2008
Simulation	ORIE	680	S. Henderson
Mathematical Finance	ORIE	790	S. Weber
Sequential Methods in Statistics	ORIE	677	B. Turnbull
Fall 2008
Intermediate Applied Statistics	ORIE	671	B. Turnbull
Mathematical Finance II (audit)	ORIE	661	A. Schied
Fixed Income Securities and Interest Rate Derivatives	NBA	555	R. Jarrow
Spring 2009
Advanced Survival Analysis	BTRY	727	R. Strawderman
Derivatives Securities I	NBA	673	M. Zurack

Teaching

Lecturer

Summer 2009: ENGRD 270 Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics

Teaching Assistant

Fall 2006 (Full-time TA): ENGRD 270 Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics, taught by Philip Protter

Spring 2007 (Full-time TA): ENGRD 270 Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics, taught by Bruce Turnbull

Spring 2008 (Full-time TA): ORIE 312 Industrial Data and Systems Analysis, taught by Peter Jackson and David Ruppert

Fall 2008 (Half-time TA): ORIE 555 Applied Time-Series Analysis, taught by David Matteson

Spring 2009 (Half-time TA): ORIE 312 Industrial Data and Systems Analysis, taught by Peter Jackson and David Ruppert