Riley Wu

Applied Math Student

Boulder, Colorado, United States

About

math enthusiast

Experience

  • Undergraduate Researcher at Applied Mathematics University of Colorado Boulder
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    Working on derivative free optimization methods with Prof. Stephen Becker.

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant (REU) at CU Boulder Department of Mathematics
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    Working with Professor Markus Pflaum on Computational Methods in Linear, Commutative and Homological Algebra.

  • Undergraduate Researcher (DLA) at University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Advised by Prof. Mohammed Hadi and Prof. Melinda Piket-May. I work on time-domain computational electromagnetics with the goal of reducing discrepancies between simulated electromagnetic fields and their behavior in real printed circuit boards. I implement finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations in MATLAB in both two and three dimensions to model wave propagation and boundary conditions. Currently working on BOR-FDTD implementations.

  • Student Researcher at Georgia State University
    Feb 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr

    Paper published on Nature. Advised by Prof. Petrus C Martens and Prof. Azim Ahmadzadeh. We present the Manually Annotated GONG Filaments in H-alpha Observations (MAGFiLO v1.0) dataset. This dataset contains 10,244 annotated filaments from 1,593 observations captured by the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG), spanning the years 2011 through 2022. I was one of the main supervisors of the research on solar filaments at GSU. I review annotated images of solar filaments and provide feedback to the annotators. Our goal is to provide the first and largest manually-annotated dataset of solar images for developing a machine-learning ecosystem for filament detections.