Random Quote: Here is my advice to you, the adventurers – fear will show you the way; walk steadily toward it, for otherwise you will always be running. - Yossi Ghinsberg
I like mathematics and programming, which is good because they occupy most of my waking hours, along with some of my dreams. I am currently based at Australian National University, working on dynamic optimization and distribution dynamics, with applications in economics and finance. (In 2025 I’m visiting Kyoto University.)
In 2016, Tom Sargent and I co-founded the US-based nonprofit organization QuantEcon. Among other things, QuantEcon supports open source software for computational modeling, promotes open science, runs computational workshops for disadvantaged students, and provides lectures and documentation for open source scientific software.
I have lots of bad habits, such as buying too many maths books. In my spare time I enjoy riding motorbikes, sailing, fishing, cooking, going to the gym, playing table tennis, snowboarding, camping, playing guitar, listening to music, watching cricket, drinking beer, spending time with my family, and hanging out with old friends. Like my Dad, I am interested in world history and anything to do with the ocean. Like my Mum, I love hiking, rivers and mountains.
When I was a kid I was obsessed with WWII fighter planes and spent hours imagining what it would be like to fly one. While I’ll never get the chance to do that, sometimes, when I’m riding my R1200R along an open road on a late summer’s afternoon, dipped into a turn with all the different forces perfectly balanced, I think perhaps this might be a tiny taste of how it would have felt.