Vilas Winstein — Curriculum Vitae
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Education
University of California, Berkeley
2022-Present — PhD Candidate in Mathematics (advised by Shirshendu Ganguly)
Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
2020-2022 — Fulbright Student (overall GPA: 4.0)
The Ohio State University
2016-2020 — BS in Mathematics and Computer Science (overal GPA: 4.0)
Senior Thesis: "Toward a Categorification of Biquandle Brackets" (advised by Sergei Chmutov)
Employment
University of California, Berkeley
2024 — Reader for Computer Science 271 (Randomness and Computation, with Alistair Sinclair)
2024 — Graduate Student Instructor for Math W54 (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, with Arun Sharma)
2023 — Graduate Student Instructor for Math 55 (Discrete Mathematics, with Sylvie Corteel)
2023 — Graduate Student Instructor for Math W54 (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, with David Nadler)
2023 — Graduate Student Instructor for Math 16B (Analytic Geometry and Calculus, with Alexander Paulin)
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
2020-2022 — Assistant Research Fellow (advised by Miklós Abért, partially funded by Fulbright)
The Ohio State University
2019 — Teaching Assistant for MATH 1130 (Algebra for Business, with James Sutherland)
2018-2019 — Mentor for MATH 4181H/4182H (Honors Analysis, with Zbigniew Fiedorowicz)
2016-2017 — Tutor for Calculus I, II, and III at MSLC
2016 — Grader for CSE 2321 (Discrete Mathematics, with Michael Fritz)
2016 — Grader for CSE 2221 (Software Components, with Diego Zaccai)
Community
University of California, Berkeley: Student Probability Seminar
2024-Present — Organizer
Spectral Collective (YouTube Channel)
2021-Present — Writing, animation, editing, voice-over work
Erdős Center: Semester on Large Networks and their Limits
2022 — Assistant organizer for "Graphs, Groups, Stochastic Processes"
2022 — Assistant organizer for "Mathematics of Large Networks"
The Ohio State University: Radical Pi Math Club
2018-2020 — Lead organizer and Free Pizza provider
Awards
2023 — Honorable Mention in the third Summer of Math Exposition (SoME3)
2022 — Winner of the second Summer of Math Exposition (SoME2)
2022 — National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2021 — Honorable Mention in the first Summer of Math Exposition (SoME1)
2020 — Fulbright Grant (Budapest Semesters in Mathematics-Rényi Institute)
2019 — Barry Goldwater Scholarship