• Assistant Professor, University of North Texas, 2001-present
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Texas, 1998-2001

Education:

• Ph.D., Mathematics (July 1, 1998), Free University Amsterdam.
  Thesis directed by Prof. P.J. Holewijn (Free University) and Prof. T.P. Hill (Georgia Institute of Technology).
  Ph.D. thesis: Ranges of vector measures and optimal-partitioning inequalities.
• M.A., Mathematics, Free University, 1994,
  Master's thesis: A constant-sum characterization of Benford's Law.

Research interests:

Optimal stopping, Random probability distributions, Probability inequalities, Lyapounov convexity, Fair division.

Research in progress:

• Various problems in optimal stopping, including average optimal stopping and optimal stopping of processes exhibiting momentum (with M. Monticino).
• Inequalities for expected maxima (with T.P. Hill).

Teaching experience:

• Instructor for Calculus I, II and III, Discrete Mathematics, Differential Equations, Probability, Real Analysis, Precalculus, College Algebra (UNT, 1998/2003).
• Teaching Fellow for Probability, Markov Chains (Free University, 1993/97).

Research papers:

See the attached list of publications.

Invited research talks:

• The first digit problem.
  Probability Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. (April 1995)
• Two sharp inequalities related to measure-partitioning in statistics and fair division theory. AMS meeting, Special Session on Stochastic Inequalities, Atlanta. (October 1997)
• Maximal moments as a measure of dispersion.
  Joint AMS/SMM meeting, Special Session on Stochastic Processes, Denton. (May 1999)
• A generalization of Lyapounov's convexity theorem to measures with atoms.
  Joint AMS/SMM meeting, Special Session on Functional Analysis, Denton. (May 1999)
• Some old and some new maximal moment inequalities. Symposium in honor of the retirement of Professor P. Holewijn, Amsterdam. (September 1999)
• Random probability distributions and average-optimal stopping. University of North Texas. (March 2001)

Other research talks (selection):

• Lyapounov's convexity theorem and the classification problem.
  Graduate Student Probability Seminar, Georgia Tech, Atlanta. (February 1996)
• Cake cutting, Lévy concentration and the location-parameter classification problem.
  Tenth European Young Statisticians Meeting, Warsaw. (August 1997)
• Benford's Law: history and recent developments.
  Stochastics Seminar, University of North Texas, Denton. (October 1998)
• Stopping a directionally reinforced random walk.
  Stochastics Seminar, University of North Texas, Denton. (November 1999)
• Optimal stopping rules for directionally reinforced processes.
  AMS Session on Probability and Statistics, Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans. (January 2001)
• Optimal stopping rules for correlated random walks with a discount
  AMS Session on Probability and Statistics, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego. (January 2002)

Other scholarly activities:

• Coordinator of UNT Stochastics Lunch Seminar, Fall 2001-current.

Grants awarded:

• UNT Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship Grant (2002). Covers Summer 2002.
• UNT Faculty Research Grant no. 34393 (2002). Grant period: 9/1/2002-8/31/2003.

Prizes:

• European Young Statisticians Prize for best lecture, Warsaw, 1997.
• Second place in the Dutch Mathematics Students Problem Solving Contest, 1993.