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David Bindel is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is the Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics and serves as an editor for NA Digest. His research focuses on optimizing stellarators and advancing magnetic confinement fusion through optimization techniques that exploit hidden symmetries. He also works on verified numerics, which includes formal correctness proofs for floating point codes. He has expertise in kernel methods, theory of scalable algorithms, and kernel-based function approximation. His teaching includes courses such as Matrix Computations, where he delves into numerical linear algebra, efficient algorithms, and error analysis.
Cornell University • Ithaca, NY
Professor in the Department of Computer Science; Director of Center for Applied Mathematics.
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