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Oded Stein received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 2013 and a Master of Science in Mathematics in 2015 from ETH Zurich, where he was supervised by Ralf Hiptmair and awarded the ETH Excellence Scholarship for distinction in his Master’s studies. In 2020, he earned a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University under the supervision of Eitan Grinspun, focusing on research related to smoothness energies in geometry processing. Following his doctoral studies, he was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2020 to 2022, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation's Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship. In 2023, he joined the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor in the Viterbi School of Engineering. His research interests encompass geometry processing, numerical mathematics, optimization, simulation, differential geometry, and algebraic topology. He aims to guide newcomers to academia in navigating their academic careers, including applying to graduate school and securing research internships.
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