ERIK AMÉZQUITA
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current 2018 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI PhD. Candidate, Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering Focused in quantifying plant morphology using topological data analysis (TDA) and X-Ray CT scans. Advisors: Elizabeth Munch and Dan Chitwood 2018 2013 Universidad de Guanajuato Guanajuato, Gto. B.S., Mathematics Thesis: Efcient object classication using the Euler characteristic Advisor: Dr. Antonio Rieser (CONACYT-CIMAT) current 2018 Chitwood-Munch Lab Michigan State University Graduate Research Assistant Exploring the morphology of Citrus and their tissues in general based on X-ray CT scans. Aiming to characterize barley spikes morphology with the Euler Characteristic Transform. Interested in reconstruction of 3D voxel data based on a limited number of height ltrations. 2018 2016 Rieser Lab CIMAT Undergraduate Research Assistant Part of CIMAT-IPICYT-INAH joint research involving mathematics, computer science and archaeology. Provided a rst new classication of a test set of pre-Columbian masks based on Euler characteristic curves. 2016 Jack Lab Universidad de Guanajuato Undergraduate Researcher Developed C/C++ code to check for presence of certain chemical elements in a supernova based on wavelength information. View this CV online at egr.msu.edu/~amezqui3/cv.html CONTACT 428 S Shaw Ln, Engineering Building Rm 1515, East Lansing, MI 48824 [email protected] github.com/amezqui3 egr.msu.edu/~amezqui3 SKILLS Programming: Python, R, C/C++, bash/unix Technologies: LaTeX, RMarkdown, jupyter, vim, html/css Languages: Spanish (native), English (near native), French (elementary) Made with the R package pagedown. Last updated on 2021-09-13. ERIK AMÉZQUITA I have interdisciplinary experience working in coding and data analysis reseach projects with plant biologists, archaeologists, and astronomers. EDUCATION | • • | • • RESEARCH EXPERIENCE | • • • | • • •
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2018Michigan State University East Lansing, MIPhD. Candidate, Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering
Focused in quantifying plant morphology using topological dataanalysis (TDA) and X-Ray CT scans.Advisors: Elizabeth Munch and Dan Chitwood
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2013Universidad de Guanajuato Guanajuato, Gto.B.S., Mathematics
Thesis: Ef�cient object classi�cation using the Euler characteristicAdvisor: Dr. Antonio Rieser (CONACYT-CIMAT)
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2018Chitwood-Munch Lab Michigan State UniversityGraduate Research Assistant
Exploring the morphology of Citrus and their tissues in general basedon X-ray CT scans.Aiming to characterize barley spikes morphology with the EulerCharacteristic Transform.Interested in reconstruction of 3D voxel data based on a limitednumber of height �ltrations.
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2016Rieser Lab CIMATUndergraduate Research Assistant
Part of CIMAT-IPICYT-INAH joint research involving mathematics,computer science and archaeology.Provided a �rst new classi�cation of a test set of pre-Columbian masksbased on Euler characteristic curves.
2016Jack Lab Universidad de GuanajuatoUndergraduate Researcher
Developed C/C++ code to check for presence of certain chemicalelements in a supernova based on wavelength information.
View this CV online ategr.msu.edu/~amezqui3/cv.html
CONTACT 428 S Shaw Ln,
Engineering Building Rm 1515,
East Lansing, MI 48824
github.com/amezqui3
egr.msu.edu/~amezqui3
SKILLS
Programming: Python, R,C/C++, bash/unix
Technologies: LaTeX,RMarkdown, jupyter, vim,html/css
Languages: Spanish (native),English (near native), French(elementary)
Made with the R packagepagedown.
Last updated on 2021-09-13.
ERIK AMÉZQUITAI have interdisciplinary experience working in coding and data analysis reseachprojects with plant biologists, archaeologists, and astronomers.
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2021Massachussets Institute of Technology virtualTA for Summer Geometry Institute
Assissted several geometry processing research projects during 3 weeks.Students were mainly undergraduates.
2021Stanford University virtualSection Leader for Code in Place
Held tutorial sessions aimed to teach the basics of coding and python.Students had no prior coding experience
2019CMSE Department, Michigan State University East Lansing, MITA for CMSE 201
Introductory course of python and data scienceAimed at undergraduates with no prior coding experience
2018CIMAT Guanajuato, Gto.TA for Pre-Calculus and Analytic Geometry
Part of CIMAT program aimed at outstanding high school students.
2017CIMAT onlineTA for introductory C/C++ programming course
Part of CIMAT country-wide program aimed at secondary school teachers with no prior codingexperience.
2017CIMAT Guanajuato, Gto.TA for the 14th Calculus Workshop
Assissted outstanding �rst year math undergrad students to solve advanced real analysis problems.
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Math Department, U de Guanajuato Guanajuato, Gto.TA for Topology I
Introductory point-set topology course. 3rd year undergrad course.
2016Math Department, U de Guanajuato Guanajuato, Gto.TA for Probability Theory
Introductory probability theory course. 2nd year undergrad course.Led R tutorials and laboratories
2021
Erik J. Amézquita, Michelle Y. Quigley, Tim Ophelders, Jacob B. Landis, Daniel Koenig, ElizabethMunch, Daniel H. Chitwood
Measuring hidden phenotype: Quantifying the shape of barley seeds using the Euler CharacteristicTransform
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
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2020Erik J. Amézquita, Michelle Y. Quigley, Tim Ophelders, Elizabeth Munch, Daniel H. ChitwoodThe shape of things to come: Topological data analysis and biology, from molecules to organisms
Developmental Dynamics. 249(7) pp. 816-833. DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.175
2021SIAM Annual Meeting 2021. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.Quantifying barley morphology using the Euler Characteristic
2021
GLBIO 2021. Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference.
Describing demeter: using the Euler characteristic to quantify the shape and biology
2021ISCB Posterpalooza. International Society for Computational Biology.Using topology to analyze the shape of barley
2021Seminario Jr. Departamento de Matemáticas. Universidad de GuanajuatoBotánica y Análisis Topológico de Datos
20212021 NAPPN. North American Plant Phenotyping Network.Analyzing maize leaf angles and modeling leaf curvature
2020FEST 2020Demeter y Euler van por una cerveza
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YRF @ SoCG. Young Researcher Forum @ Symposium on Computational Geometry.Quantifying the shape of barley using the Euler characteristic
2020Seminario AME. Instituto Politécnico Nacional. MéxicoMidiendo la forma de la cebada usando Análisis Topológico de Datos
2018II Coloquio de Desarrollo Tecnológico al Servicio del Patrimonio CulturalE�cient object classi�cation using the Euler characteristic
20212021 AATRN Tutorial-a-thon. Applied Algebraic Topology Research Network.Using the Euler characteristic to quantify the shape in biology
Recorded for the AATRN YouTube Resource channel
2021
2021 NAPPN. North American Plant Phenotyping Network.Measuring the shape of plants with Topological Data Analysis
1h workshop where audience was mainly from the plant biology realm.
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SELECTED WORKSHOPS LEAD
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2021GTDAML 2021. Second Graduate Student Conference: Geometry and Topology meet Data Analysisand Machine Learning.
Using topology to analyze the shape of barley
2021ISCB/EECB 2021. Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on ComputationalBiology.
Using topology to analyze the shape of barley
2021TDA Workshop @ IMSI. Insititute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation.Using topology to analyze the shape of barley
2021SMB 2020 Annual Meeting. Society of Mathematical Biology.Using topology to analyze the shape of barley
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TDA Workshop @ NeurIPS 2020. Neural Information Processing Systems.Using topology to analyze the shape of barley
201747th Annual John H. Barrett Memorial Lectures. Math Department. University of TennesseeObject classi�cation using the Euler characteristic
2017CIMAT-UA Workshop. Math Department. University of Arizona.Bridging mathematics and archaeology
20173a Escuela de Análisis Topológico de Datos y Topología Estocástica. ABACUS. CINVESTAVBridging mathematics and archaeology
2020Summer Math Academy. Math Department. University of TorontoUsing topology to quantify the shape of barley
Outreach talk for outstanding high school-level students
2020
Social Science Data Analytics Initiative. Michigan State University.Wrangling and Presenting Data with Pandas and Seaborn in Python
2h workshop where audience was mainly from social science realm with just basic coding experience
2020Social Science Data Analytics Initiative. Michigan State University.Narrating our data with RMarkdown
2h workshop where audience was mainly from social science realm with just basic coding experience
2018
Ciencia es Cultura. Dirección de Extensión Cultural. Universidad de Guanajuato.La maldición de la dimensión y aprendizaje de máquina
Outreach talk for a high school audience
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2017Ciencia es Cultura. Dirección de Extensión Cultural. Universidad de Guanajuato.Un matemático y un psicólogo se hallan en Hanoi
Outreach talk for a high school audience
2016Ciencia es Cultura. Dirección de Extensión Cultural. Universidad de Guanajuato.In�nitos grandes e in�nitos pequeños
Outreach talk for a high school audience
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2021SMB Subgroup: Methods for Biological ModelingWebmaster
2019Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology symposium. Michigan State University.Finance Comittee Chair. PBGB symposium
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2016College of Natural and Exact Sciences Council. Universidad de Guanajuato.Student Representative
Logged each session minutes, such as budget or policy, and shared them with the math students.
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2015Escuela de Nivel Medio Superior, Guanajuato. Guanajuato.High School Mathematics Seminar Co-Organizer
Delivered lectures on math topics usually not covered at high school levels, such as combinatorics orgroup theory.
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2012Math Olympiad National Team. Guatemala.Tutor of the Guatemalan Math Olympiad Team
Successfully lobbied the Guatemalan Department of Education to obtain funding for 3 students toparticipate in the 15th Central American and Caribbean Math Olympiad.
2019Applied Mathematical Modeling with Topological Techniques. ICERMTravel Grant
2019Michigan State UniversityIMPACTS Fellowship
Awarded jointly by MSU and the NRT-NSF program.
2018Sociedad Mexicana de MatemáticasSotero Prieto Medal
Best undergrad math thesis produced in Mexico during the 2017-18 academic year.
2018Asociación Mexicana de EstadísticaFrancisco Aranda Ordaz Award
3rd place. Best undergrad statistics theses produced in Mexico during the 2016-18 academic years.
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2018CMSE Department, Michigan State UniversityRaymond P. and Marie M. Ginther Graduate Fellowship
Awarded by CMSE to outstanding incoming graduate students.
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2013CIMATCIMAT Academic Excellence Scholarship
Merit-based scholarship for math undergraduates.
20174to Congreso Interinstitucional de Jóvenes InvestigadoresBest Undergraduate Mathematics, Physics and Earth Sciences Innovation Research Project.
3rd Place. Nationwide event.
20175to Encuentro de Jóvenes InvestigadoresBest Undergraduate Engineering Research Project
1st Place. Statewide event
201012th Central American and Caribbean Math OlympiadBronze Medal
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