Curriculum Vitae
A short summary below; the full CV is available as a PDF.
Education
- PhD & MA, Mathematics — University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020. Algebraic geometry; elliptic curves and applications to string theory.
- BA, Mathematics — Reed College, 2013.
Selected experience
- Senior Data Scientist, Quome (2024–2025) — Evaluation agents for LLM applications.
- Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara (2020–2022) — Linear algebra, vector calculus, calculus for the social sciences; first year fully remote; classes of 30–300 students.
- Instructor of Record, UC Santa Barbara (Summer 2018).
- Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Barbara (2014–2020).
- Project Mentor & TA, The Erdős Institute (2024–2025) — Remote data-science / ML mentoring.
- Private tutor, Seattle — College algebra, statistics, probability; adult and returning learners.
Mentoring
- REU Project Leader, UC Santa Barbara (2019).
- Directed Reading Program mentor, UC Santa Barbara (2018–2022).
Papers
- Elliptic Curves and the Hopf Fibration (2025).
- Supersingular Isogeny Graphs from Algebraic Modular Curves (2023).
- Modular Curves and Mordell–Weil Torsion in F-theory (2019), with P. K. Oehlmann — arXiv:1910.04095.
Projects
- elliptic-curves.art (2022–present) — Visualizing elliptic curves via lattice theory. Bridges 2025 paper; artwork to be exhibited at ICM 2026; technical paper and a Mathematical Intelligencer article in preparation.
- Wonderpus Octopus (2024) — Neural networks for biogeochemical modeling; top-5 Erdős Deep Learning project.
- Recipe recommender (2024) — Sentence-transformer + matrix-factorization engine; top-5 Erdős Data Science project.
Certificates
- Erdős Deep Learning Bootcamp (2024)
- Erdős Data Science Bootcamp (2024)
- Coursera Cryptography I (2023)
Details
Based in Somerville, MA. Contact: nhajouji@gmail.com.