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CV Updated Nov 2026
General Information
| Full Name | Alexander Win Hsu |
Education
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2021-2026 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington - PhD in Applied Math
- Advised by Bamdad Hosseini and Sasha Aravkin
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2020 Claremont Graduate University - MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics
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2016-2020 Claremont McKenna College - BA in Mathematics
- Minor in Computer Science
Experience
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2026-Present NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University - Mentored by Andrew Stuart
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2022-2025 Graduate Student Researcher
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation - I worked for the Math Sciences and Computational Algorithms team to provide support to modelers, as well as develop new statistical tools and ideas for modeling disease.
- I developed a custom Gaussian process regression package that scales to millions of observations and predictions across time, location and demographics.
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2020-2021 Machine Learning Engineer
Yelp Inc. - Improved model for customer retention using XGBoost with proportional hazards
- Developed and implemented improved statistical estimators for retention predictions
- Built and launched experiments for uplift models for making budget recommendations that directly optimize revenue
- Applied causal inference techniques to better understand the relationship between pricing, conversion, and retention
Honors and Awards
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2026 - NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
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2025 - Carl E. Pearson Fellowship for outstanding work by a PhD student in the Department of Applied Mathematics
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2023 - Boeing Excellence Award for Research in Applied Math
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2020 - Best Undergraduate Thesis in Mathematics
- Outstanding Major in Mathematics
Other Interests
- Olympic Weightlifting
- Classical piano
- Judo