<p>My real name: Daniel O'Connor.</p>
<p>I'm an assistant professor in the Mathematics and Statistics department at University of San Francisco.</p>
<p>Background: Applied math PhD at UCLA, researched algorithms for large scale convex optimization with advisor Lieven Vandenberghe. I did a postdoc in the UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology, where I developed algorithms for radiation treatment planning.</p>
<p>Here's my PhD thesis: <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4z1126w3#page-1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4z1126w3#page-1</a></p>
<p>Here are some of my stackexchange highlights:</p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4323512/how-would-you-discover-stokess-theorem/4323513#4323513">How would you discover Stokes's theorem?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/100951/what-was-feynmans-much-better-way-of-presenting-the-electrodynamics-which">What was Feynman's &quot;much better way of presenting the electrodynamics&quot;?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/403924/43159">The intuition behind the SVD</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/223235/please-explain-the-intuition-behind-the-dual-problem-in-optimization/624633#624633">The intuition behind the dual problem in optimization</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1760741/40119">The intuition behind Lagrange multipliers</a></p>
<p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/444267/43159">Deriving the gradient boosting machine algorithm</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1537836/40119">Why does the fundamental theorem of calculus work?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1127350/40119">What is the Jacobian matrix?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/725963/40119">Intuition behind the chain rule</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/4358663/40119">Understanding a proof of the inverse function theorem</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1944778/40119">Discovering the discrete Fourier transform</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3508376/40119">Computing the gradient of <span class="math-container">$\frac12 \| Ax - b \|^2$</span> with finesse</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3154991/40119">An easy way to discover Taylor approximation with a formula for the remainder</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/464972/40119">Intuitive explanation of the multivariable change of variables formula</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/436672/40119">A natural proof of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/827692/40119">What is integration by parts, really?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/812171/40119">Understanding the Laplace operator conceptually</a></p>
<p><a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1941610/40119">An easy derivation of Cramer's rule</a></p>

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