Glen Whitney, UCLA Math 2012 Commencement Address Video

Glen Whitney received a PhD in mathematical logic from UCLA in 1994. He began his career on the academic, theoretical side teaching at the University of Michigan then added the applied point of view as a hedge-fund quantitative analyst with Renaissance Technologies. Whitney discovered the spirit of hands-on exploration as an elementary-school math club coach, and he's seen the value of math as a tool to give back to society, helping to design the data collection systems used by the Simons Foundation Autism ...