Nathan Cordner

PhD Student

Boston University Department of Computer Science

RESEARCH

Current Interests: Data Mining Algorithms and Entity Resolution with Dr. George Kollios

Continuous Facility Location Algorithms for k-Means and k-Median (slides, November 2019)
- Summary Paper
Primal-Dual Algorithms for Clustering and Feature Allocation (slides, October 2018)

GitHub (Python and C++ implementations of clustering algorithm)

Previous Work: Algebraic Geometry with Dr. Tyler Jarvis of Brigham Young University

Two Algorithms to Compute Symmetry Groups for Landau-Ginzburg Models (preprint, June 2018)
- An attempt to connect my previous work with my current interests
An Isomorphism Extension Theorem for Landau-Ginzburg B-Models (accepted manuscript)
- Published February 2018 by Communications in Algebra
Master's Thesis: Isomorphisms of Landau-Ginzburg B-Models, May 2016
Undergraduate Publication: Transposing Noninvertible Polynomials, appeared January 2016

Resumes: September 2019 Resume, LinkedIn

TEACHING

Boston University

Fall 2020: Teaching Fellow for CS 455, Computer Networks
Summer 2 2020, Spring 2020: Teaching Fellow for CS 132, Geometric Algorithms (Linear Algebra)
Summer 1 2020: Teaching Fellow for CS 237, Probability in Computing
Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018: Grader for CS 332, Theory of Computation
Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017: Teaching Fellow for CS 111, Introduction to Computer Science 1 (Python)

Brigham Young University

Spring 2016: Graduate Student Instructor for Math 116, Business Calculus
Spring 2016: Graduate Teaching Assistant for Math 290, Foundations of Mathematics (an introductory proofs course)
Winter 2016: Graduate Student Instructor for Math 112, Calculus I
Fall 2015: Graduate Student Instructor for Math 113, Calculus II
Summer 2015: Graduate Student Instructor for Math 314, Calculus III
Winter 2015, Fall 2014: Graduate Teaching Assistant for Math 112, Calculus I
Fall 2014: Grader for Math 541, Graduate Real Analysis
Winter 2010: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for CS 142, Intro to Computer Programming (Java)

HOBBIES

Check out my YouTube channel where I post original compositions and arrangements of songs for french horn and piano

A Recent Project:

I'm a fourth-year doctoral student, specializing in algorithms and optimization. My previous degrees are in mathematics, with emphasis in algebraic geometry. Before coming to BU, I also worked for a year as a software engineer at Vecna Technologies in Cambridge, MA.

When not working on academic things, I enjoy playing music and visiting the many historic sites in Boston with my wife.