TERESA MARGARET SELEE

Department of Mathematics                                       

North Carolina State University

255 Harrelson Hall                                                     

Raleigh, North Carolina 27695                                              

Office Phone: (919) 513-4233

Home Phone: (919) 606-7646                                   

Email: tmselee@gmail.com or tmselee@ncsu.edu

URL: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tmselee

Citizenship: U.S. Citizen

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Numerical Linear Algebra, Stochastic matrices, Web search & Information Retrieval, Tensors, Data mining

 

EDUCATION

* North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Aug 2003 to Present

- M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Dec 2005, 3.64 GPA

- Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, expected November 2008, 4.33 GPA

- Thesis title: Stochastic matrices and Information Retrieval

- Advisor: Ilse Ipsen

 

* Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, Aug 1998 to May 2002

- Honors B.S., Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, 3.87 GPA

- Honors B.A., Economics, Summa Cum Laude, 3.87 GPA

 

* Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, Jan 2001 to Mar 2001

 

PUBLICATIONS

* Kelly Dickson and Teresa Selee. Eigenvectors of Arrowhead Matrices via the Adjugate. Submitted to Involve, Nov 2007.

* Teresa M. Selee, Tamara G. Kolda, W. Philip Kegelmeyer, and Joshua D. Griffin. Extracting clusters from large datasets with multiple similarity measures using IMSCAND. CSRI Summer Proceedings 2007, Technical Report SAND2007-7977, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM and Livermore, CA, M. L. Parks and S. S. Collis (eds.), Pages 87-103, December 2007.

* Ilse C.F. Ipsen and Teresa M. Selee. PageRank Computation, with Special Attention to Dangling Nodes. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. vol. 29, pp 1281-1296 (2007)

 

EMPLOYMENT

*Technical Staff Intern, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, Summer 2007

- Advisor: Tamara Kolda

* SAMSI fellow, High Dimensional Inference and Random Matrices, Fall 2006, Spring 2007

* Graduate Teaching Assistant, NCSU, Summer – Fall 2004, Spring – Summer 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2008

* Graduate Research Assistant, NCSU, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005 – Fall 2005

* Conforming Loan Analyst, Heartland Home Finance, Middleburgh, OH, June 2002 – June 2003

* Student Book Editor, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH, June 2001 – May 2002

 

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

* SIAM Travel Award, SIAM Annual meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2008

* AWM Travel Award, SIAM Annual meeting, AWM Workshop participant, July 2008

* Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) participant, workshop on Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines, September 2007

* Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) Graduate Fellow – High Dimensional Inference and Random Matrices, 2006-2007

* SIAM Travel Award for GAMM-SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, 2006

* North Carolina State University Alumni Association Fellowship recipient, 2003-2004

* Emily Goldstein Award for outstanding academic achievement in Statistics, Youngstown State University, 2001-2002

* Paul J. and Marguerite K. Thomas Scholarship in Economics, Youngstown State University, 2000-2002

* AMS Awards for Outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presentation, 1999 & 2002

* Meritorious Placing in the 2000 & 2002 International COMAP Modeling Competition

* Four-year University Scholar, Youngstown State University (Full Academic Scholarship)

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

* Graduate Recruiting weekend, NCSU, February 2008

* Google, Mountain View, CA, July 2007

* Opening ceremony, Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, Youngstown State University, Panel for students on Graduate School, April 2007

 

CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS

* SIAM Annual Meeting, contributed talk, San Diego, CA, July 2008

* SIAM Annual Meeting, AWM Workshop (poster session), San Diego, CA, July 2008

* Third Annual NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium, March 2008

* Sandia National Labs Summer Intern Symposium (poster session), August 2007

* MAA Mathfest (poster session), San Jose, CA, August 2007

* Second Annual NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium (poster session), March 2007

* Joint GAMM-SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Düsseldorf, Germany, July 2006

* SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, July 2006

* MAA Mathfest, Burlington, VT August, 2002

* MAA Mathfest, Madison, WI, August 2001

* MAA Mathfest, Los Angeles, CA, August 2000

* Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Math, Lincoln, NE, February 2000

* MAA Mathfest, Providence, RI, August 1999

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

* Lecturer for Introduction to Finite Mathematics with Applications, 3 summer semesters, 20 students per semester & 4 regular semesters, 100-150 students per semester

* Lecturer for Mathematics of Finance, 1 summer semester, ~20 students

 

COMPUTER SKILLS: Matlab, Maple, APL2, LaTeX, Microsoft Office, SPSS

 

SERVICE

* Reviewer for SIAM Review

* Officer, North Carolina State University Math Graduate Student Association, 2005 – 2008

* Vice President, Youngstown State University Pi Mu Epsilon chapter, 2000-2002

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

* North Carolina State University Math Graduate Student Association (MGSA), 2003 – 2008

* Mathematical Association of America (MAA), 1999 – present

* Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2004 – present

* Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM), 2005 – present

* American Mathematical Society (AMS), 2004 – present

* Pi Mu Epsilon, 1998-2002