About Me

Ran Pan

Data Scientist & Math Lover

I am a data scientist at TripAdvisor and an amateur mathematician.

I am interested in new findings in machine learning, deep learning, tensor computation, online algorithms, enumerative combinatorics, pattern avoidance and enumeration, graph theory and probabilistic combinatorics.

But food is always my first concern. I eat. I cook. I explore restaurants. I create new dishes.

Education

2016

Ph.D. in Mathematics

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California

Dissertation: Block patterns in permutations and words and generalzied clusters.

Advisor: Jeff Remmel. Committee: Ron Graham, Russell Impagliazzo, Brendon Rhoades, Jacques Verstraete.

2014

M.A. in Mathematics

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California



2012

B.S. in Mathematics

Tongji University

Shanghai, China

Thesis: Continued fractions interpolation and image processing.

Advisor: Chun-jing Li.

2007

High school diploma

Jiangsu Province Yangzhou High School

Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Exprecience

2016

Data Scientist

TripAdvisor

Needham, MA, USA

December 2016 - present

2016

Data Scientist Intern

Advanced Microgrid Solutions

San Francisco, CA, USA

June 2016 - September 2016

2015

Statistical Consultant

UL Inc.

San Diego, CA, USA

May 2015 - January 2016

2014

Teaching Assistant

Math Department, UC San Diego

La Jolla, CA, USA

September 2014 - December 2016

2011

Data Analyst

RAPP, DDB

Shanghai, China

November 2011 - May 2012

2011

Simulation Engineer

Para-sol Energy Inc.

Shanghai, China

August 2011 - November 2011

Research

Papers

3. Paired patterns in lattice paths, R. Pan and J.B. Remmel.

Submitted to a special volume of Developments in Mathematics (Springer), 2016.


2. Asymptotics for minimal overlapping patterns for generalized Euler permutations, standard tableaux of rectangular shapes, and column strict arrays, R. Pan and J.B. Remmel.

Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, 18-2 (2016), # 6.


1. Tensor transpose and its properties, R. Pan.

Available on arXiv:1411.1503, 2014.


Talks

4. Distributed patterns in lattice paths.

8th International Conference on Lattice Path Combinatorics & Applications, Pomona, California. August 19, 2015.


3. Introduction to counting with symmetric functions.

Combinatorics seminar, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. July 11, 2015.


2. Pattern matching in standard Young tableaux of rectangular shapes.

Permutation Patterns 2015, London, England. June 16, 2015.


1. Patterns in column-strict arrays.

Advancement talk, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California. December 11, 2014.


Miscellaneous

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