Curriculum Vitae

Education

• DPhil in Mathematics, University of Oxford, 2019
  • Thesis supervised by Coralia Cartis
• Bachelor of Computational Science (Hons), Australian National University, 2011

Experience

• Since 2025: University of Melbourne
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics
• 2022-2025: University of Sydney
  • Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics
• 2019-2022: Australian National University
  • MSI Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Institute
• 2015-2019: University of Oxford
  • Doctoral Student, Mathematical Institute
• 2012-2015: Macquarie Group
  • Quantitative Applications Division, Risk Management Group

Research Funding

• ARC Discovery Project, 2025-2028, A$435k
  • Project: Next Generation Newton-type Methods with Minimum Residual Solver
  • Joint with Fred Roosta (University of Queensland), Andre Milzarek (CUHK Shenzhen) and Stephen Wright (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• CNRS International Emerging Actions, 2024-2025, €14k
  • Project: Blackbox Optimization with a Novel Use of Subspaces
  • Joint with Clément Royer (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL)
• ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), 2024-2027, A$445k
  • Project: Robust Derivative-Free Algorithms for Complex Optimisation Problems

Awards and Achievements

• Over 1 million installations of my open-source software packages (2025)
• ARC DECRA fellowship (2024-2027)
• IMA Leslie Fox Prize for Numerical Analysis (2021)
• Reddick Prize, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford (2020)
• Best paper award, Mathematical Programming Computation (2019)