Max Wasserman
Graduate Student
Email: maxwasserman@gmail.comDepartment of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
2145 Sheridan Road, Room M455
Northwestern, Illinois 60201, USA
Bio
I grew up in Bethesda, Maryland and went to high school in Silver Spring as part of the Math and Science Magnet Program in my county. I attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where I studied mechanical engineering. While there, I learned that I much preferred the theory of mechanical engineering to the actual engineering, and I made a decision to make a transition towards applied mathematics. I spent the summer of 2008 writing articles on statistics, math, and sports for the popular sports blog The Big Lead, performing my own homemade calculations and simulations using MATLAB. After obtaining my bachelors degree in 2009, I joined the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics here at Northwestern.
Currently, I work in the lab of Luis Amaral on consensus formation and bias seeking to understand how people formulate their opinions. I plan to soon begin work on analyzing soccer statistics using network theory.
I am an avid blogger, having formerly written for the Ivy League-themed blog IvyGate, and I have also interned for Gawker Media and washingtonpost.com.
Education
- Masters Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University (2010)
- B. Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University (2009)
Awards and honors
- John McMullen Dean's Scholar, College of Engineering, Cornell University (2005)