Splash Biography

ANDY ZHU, Princeton senior, studying mathematics

Major: Mathematics

College/Employer: Princeton

Year of Graduation: 2013

Brief Biographical Sketch:

I'm a senior in the math department here; math has always been one of my largest interests, originating from a high school math olympiad-type background. My academic interests tend to be in applied mathematical areas such as convex programming and optimization. I enjoy playing card games, ultimate frisbee (I captain the club ultimate's B team), and anything else that allows me to procrastinate working on my senior thesis.

Past Classes

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M37: Randomized Algorithms in Splash Spring 13 (Apr. 27, 2013)

Sometimes we might be able to write down a nice procedure for solving a problem (for example, you may have heard before of the quicksort algorithm to solve the problem of sorting a list), but this procedure happens to fail or do poorly on certain specific inputs. How can we avoid such an issue? One way is to throw randomness into the equation!