Osman Akar


        Graduate Student at UCLA Mathematics Department

About

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I am a fifth year PhD student of applied mathematics at UCLA working under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Teran. I graduated with BS in Mathematics of Computation and MA in Mathematics from UCLA in 2019 under Departmental Scholars Program. I am the sole recipent of Math Undergraduate Merit Scholarship in class of 19' and gold medalist in 55th International Mathematical Olympiad in 2014.

My research interests are computational linear algebra and machine learning. In general, main focus of my projects has been to improve existing algorithms/methods that are used in physics-based simulations via learning-based approaches.

Here is my CV (not very up to date) and one page resume.

Research and News

7/23: My paper A Deep Conjugate Direction Method for Iteratively Solving Linear Systems is published at ICML 2023.

6/22: Joined Epic Games as a Physics Programming Intern (now Research Intern).

5/22: Passed ATC.

2/21-5/22 Deep Conjugate Direction Method Project: Accelerating iterative linear system solver via learning-based approach.

Current Teaching (23F)


Math Olympiad Tutoring

I also do competitive math tutoring/mentoring for AMC/AIME/USAMO preperation. See tutoring page for more info.