I'm David Lowry-Duda. I'm a Principal Engineer at the Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard Law.
I study data, computation, and mathematics, broadly construed. I'm excited when I can apply computational tools and techniques in new areas and I'm passionate about developing broad, general, institutional infrastructure supporting work and research.
I also help organize and run code4math. We meet online every month and talk about how to support high quality sociotechnical research infrastructure. Come and join!
Scientific Potential
I subscribe to the axioms laid out1 1 included in Todas Cuentan in the AMS Notices; slightly modified here to be more general by Federico Ardila:
- Scientific potential is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
- Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering scientific experiences.
- Science is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
- Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
Previous Studies and Experience
I studied at Georgia Tech for undergrad. I studied applied mathematics, international affairs, and modern languages. I was not immediately set on mathematics and instead took my time to determine what I liked. I studied abroad in Spain and Mexico, worked in the European Parliament in Brussels, and then attended the Budapest Semester in Mathematics program. By the end, my interests favored math and I began to focus on number theory.
I went to Brown for graduate school, studying analytic number theory. I began to work on the LMFDB during my postdoc at the University of Warwick, which is when I began to incorporate computational number theory into my work.
Then I was a mathematician ICERM, the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics. I worked in number theory, arithmetic geometry, cryptography, machine learning, and computation. I was fortunate to be supported by the Simons Collaboration in Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation for many years, during which I helped develop math research software and the stack of software that helps power it.
About this site
I write about my interests, including research, teaching, talks, programming, math, programming, and topics in computer science. Some of these notes are aimed at my collaborators or colleagues. Sometimes they're aimed at future me, or are what I wish I knew when I first began something.
This site has no ads, no tracking scripts, no tracking pixels, and almost no external scripts (except mathjax or an occasional visualization library).
The photo at the top of this page is from my sister-in-law-in-law, Magda.
If you enjoy my work and wish to support this site in a small way, you might like to buy me a coffee.
Contacting me
If you have a question or comment about my work or site, send me an email at david@lowryduda.com. If you prefer official-sounding emails, davidlowryduda@brown.edu also reaches me.2 2Note that I'm not affiliated with Brown now, and it's not clear to me how long this email will function. But it looks official.
I'm a moderator at math.stackexchange and am present in various other fora and sites as something similar to "mixedmath" or "davidlowryduda". Please note that I don't respond to moderator inquiries here or over email, but I am very happy to talk about math.
I have a PGP key3
3see relevant xkcd
associated to davidlowryduda@davidlowryduda.com available from
keyservers with fingerprint 8369 7536 2D4F 19C1 8357 DDBD 42E1 5895 BF7F
0291. I'm also davidlowryduda on keybase.
Disclaimer
Disclaimer: Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Harvard Law, Harvard, ICERM, the National Science Foundation, or any other institution.