Welcome to eagankaminetz.com!

Hello, my name is Eagan Kaminetz. I'm currently in my fourth year as an undergraduate student at UC San Diego majoring in Mathematics-Computer Science, and I will graduate in June 2025. I was also an intern at BAE Systems, Inc. from June 2023 to September 2024.

Academically, I'm primarily interested in analysis, probability, theoretical computer science, and discrete mathematics. I especially like areas where several of these intersect, such as the probabilistic method, probabilistic algorithms, quantitative finance, and the mathematics of data science. Despite currently being an undergraduate, I've taken various graduate-level courses (click here for a list, including undergraduate courses), and in January 2024 I attended a weeklong discrete math research workshop (Desert Discrete Math Workshop).

As for research, I am currently in UCSD's undergraduate math honors program, studying fast algorithms for sparse approximate inverse Cholesky decompositions of covariance matrices for Gaussian processes. My advisor is Robert Webber.

Outside of school or work, I'm an avid linux user who spends a reasonable amount of time tinkering with configurations, dotfiles, etc. In fact, this whole website is generated from org-mode files using emacs. I also sometimes participate in game jams/hackathons, but I'm not particularly proud of the code I produce under these circumstances (you can probably find it if you try really hard though). My less employable hobbies include playing board/tabletop games and surfing.

This site contains a few articles I've written on various topics that interest me, ranging from mathematical finance approaches for personal investing to mundane desktop linux guides.

You can contact me at ekaminetz@ucsd.edu for academic-related emails, or eagangk@protonmail.com for anything else.