Staff
Meet Our Instructors
The HMA instructors are UW faculty, industry professionals, math coaches, and graduate students from the UW Math Department.
Dave
MIT B.S. in Mathematics
Putnam Honorable Mention (2004, 2005)
USA Math Olympiad (USAMO) qualifier (2002, 2003), Math Olympiad Summer Program (MOP) attendee (2002)
Founder of the Academy of Math and Programming (AMP), a free 5-week residential summer camp in NYC for talented high school students from around the country (2022-present)
Dave has been working in quantitative finance as a trader and educator for over 15 years. He has taught and mentored hundreds of top math students, helping them prepare for college and for quantitative careers.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
MIT B.S. in Mathematics, Harvard Ph.D. in Mathematics
International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO): Gold (2009), Bronze (2008)
Canadian Mathematical Olympiad: Second Place (2009)
Winston
Harvard A.B. in Mathematics, S.M. in Applied Mathematics
USAMO qualifier (2005, 2006, 2007)
Alumnus of Mathpath (2003), MOP (2005), Research Science Institute (2007)
Counselor at Mathpath (2009)
Problem writer for ARML (2010–present) and North Suburban Math League (2017–2024)
Works in quantitative finance
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
Princeton B.A. in mathematics, MIT Ph.D. in Mathematics
Putnam Top 15 (2011), Honorable Mention (2008, 2009)
USAMO Honorable Mention (2007, 2008)
Boeing Professor, Applied Mathematics (AMATH), University of Washington
Director, Computational Finance & Risk Management (CFRM) Program, University of Washington
Cornell B.S. in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Princeton Ph.D. in Operations Research & Financial Engineering
BA in Mathematics, and Bed in Mathematics Education, and MS in Mathematics.
50+ years teaching secondary students in Mathematics in both public and private schools around Washington State.
12+ as a math coach of secondary teachers of mathematics in Seattle and 30+ years delivering ProD with teachers in the northwest, nationally and internationally.
Currently teaching secondary mathematics with students online.
Ben
BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Yale
Ran Middle School Math Circles for the last 7 years
Host of the monthly Seattle MathsJam
Thomas
MIT B.S. in Mathematics, Ph.D. in Astrodynamics
Worked in mathematical optimization at NASA, Google, Microsoft Research, and Amazon
Top scorer in 2001 Pomona-Wisconsin Math Talent Search
Instructor/coach in K-12 STEM enrichment programs for over two decades
Chris