Ryan - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hello, my name is Ryan. I am a graduate student at UCLA, and an aspiring Statistician (*drum roll*). Some people say I am quiet, others say I am social. In either case, it is safe to warn you that I am pretty intense. Although I can definitely be a workaholic, I like to have fun when I can. Sometimes I act older than my age, sometimes I act younger than my age. I guess I can't really be placed in a group, and I prefer to keep it that way.
I recently got my own place in Westwood. No more roommates or shared parking spaces. I will post pics soon.
I am at UCLA to earn a Ph.D. in Statistics. I am really interested in Data Mining, Social Network Analysis, Psychometrics, and applications to Computer Science particularly networking and the Internet.

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My Interests

Snowboarding, skateboarding, trying to surf, commercial aviation, digital photography,...programming (I enjoy this far too much: C++, Python, Java, Perl, PHP, ASP, Ruby)Mathematics (combinatorics, graph theory, logic, linear algebra), Statistics (signal processing, psychometrics and measurement, data mining, forensics), computer science (artificial intelligence, networking, forensics) and commercial aviation and safety of.

I'd like to meet:

My great-grandparents (both immigrants), my grandfather (one was a pilot), Carl Friedrich Gauss, Claude Shannon, the visionaries involved in the creation of the internet (no, not Al Gore). GWEN STEFANI.

Music:

Punk, alternative, 80s, ska, reggae, some classical. Guster, Jack's Mannequin, Something Corporate, Sugarcult, Panic at the Disco, GWEN STEFANI, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart.

Movies:

A Beautiful Mind, Apocalypse Now, The Manchurian Candidate, The Nutty Professor, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (and the new one), Jackass, Dumb and Dumber.

Television:

NUMB3RS, CSI, Close to Home, Missing, Unsolved Mysteries, MTV for fun, SpikeTV, The Amazing Race, Hell's Kitchen, Big Brother lol

Books:

Mathematics and Sex, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Dante's Inferno, Catcher in the Rye, A Tour of the Calculus.

Heroes:

My Parents, Gauss, Charles Lindbergh, William Boeing, Bill Clinton, Leonhard Euler, Bill Gates, the inventors of the internet, Claude Shannon, pilots and air traffic controllers. And anybody that has gone against the grain to overcome the odds to make a difference in society, science and technology.