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Amy N. [email protected]
Mathematics DepartmentCollege of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29401(843) 953-8021
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Researcher, North Carolina State University, 2002-2005Ph.D. Operations Research, North Carolina State University, May 2002
Minors: Mathematics, Computational and Engineering SciencesDissertation: Preconditioning for Stochastic Automata Networks, under Dr. William J. StewartM.S. Operations Research, North Carolina State University, May 1999
Minors: Mathematics, StatisticsB.S. Mathematics, Mt. St. Mary's College, May 1997, valedictorian
GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
CISE-CCF-AF Grant from National Science Foundation, 2011-2014CAREER Award from National Science Foundation, 2006-2011REU Supplement from National Science Foundation, 2011SURF Award from CofC URGA, summer 2006General Electric - Faculty for the Future Fellow, 2000-2001National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Trainee, 1999-2000Graduate Assistantship in Areas of National Need Fellow, 1998North Carolina State University - First Year Engineering Fellow, 1997-1998 NCAA Postbaccalaureate Fellow, 1997-1998
CONSULTING and ADVISORY BOARDS
The Boeing Corporation, 2004-2005The SAS Institute, 2005-2008Semandex, Inc., 2007-2009Piffany, Inc., 2008-2009Fortune Interactive, 2007-2008Your Music On, 2009-2010College Football Performance Awards, 2009-2010SKV, LLC., 2007-2012Tiger Falcon, LLC, 2010Princeton University Press, reviewer, 2008-presentNational Science Foundation, reviewer, 2007-present
Sortable.com, 2012-2013U.S. Olympic Committee Research and Development, 2013-2014Trilogy, 2013-2015Rootmetrics.com, 2014-2015National Basketball Association, 2014-2015
TEACHING
HONORS and AWARDS
SC Governor’s Professor of the Year Finalist, 2012Faculty of the Year, College of Charleston EXCEL Award, 2008CofC’s G E. Jones Distinguished Achievement Award, 2006MAA Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching, nominated 2008S.C. Governor’s Award for Excellence in Science, nominated 2008, 2010, 2011CofC’s Teacher-Scholar Award, 2011, nominated 2007, 2009, 2010CofC’s Distinguished Researcher Award, nominated 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013
Distinguished Alumni Award, NCSU, 2008Hall of Fame, Mt. St. Mary’s, 2008 Maltbie Award for Outstanding Teaching, NCSU, 2000-2001 Outstanding Teaching Assistant, NCSU, 1999-2000
COURSES TAUGHT
During final postdoctoral year at N.C. State University
Fall 2004 MATH 241 Calculus III (two sections)MATH 523 Matrix Theory and Applied Linear Algebra
Spring 2005 MATH 241 Calculus III MATH 305 Elementary Linear Algebra
Summer 2005 MATH 305 Elementary Linear Algebra
At the College of Charleston
Fall 2005MATH 120 Calculus I (two sections)
MATH 451/551 Optimization
Spring 2006MATH 120 Calculus 1 MATH 452/552 Operations ResearchCourse Release funded by NSF-CAREER award
Summer 2006MATH 700 M.S. Thesis on Spectral ClusteringSURF-CofC project with Emmie DouglasSAMSI Industrial Mathematical and Statistical Modeling workshop advisor
Fall 2006
MATH 105 Business Calculus MATH 203 Linear AlgebraCourse Release funded by NSF-CAREER awardMATH 417 Independent Reading course on Spectral MethodsMATH 699 M.S. Independent Study on Ranking Sports TeamsMATH 700 M.S. Thesis on Spectral Clustering
Spring 2007
MATH 105 Business Calculus MATH 203 Linear AlgebraCourse Release funded by NSF-CAREER awardMATH 399 Module for Device Dissection LabMATH 699 Independent Study on Ranking and ClusteringMATH 700 M.S. Thesis on Spectral ClusteringMATH 700 M.S. Thesis on College Football Rankings
Summer 2007
REU-NSF funded project at N.C. State University, advisorSAMSI Industrial Mathematical and Statistical Modeling workshop advisor
Fall 2007
MATH 105 Business CalculusMATH 451/551 OptimizationCourse Release funded by NSF-CAREER awardMATH 700 M.S. Thesis on SVD Clustering
Spring 2008
MATH 105 Business Calculus
MATH 452/552 Operations ResearchCourse Release funded by NSF-CAREER awardMATH 417 Independent Reading Course on Complex DatasetsMATH 699 Independent Study on Complex Datasets
Summer 2008
REU-NSF funded project at N.C. State University, advisorSAMSI Industrial Mathematical and Statistical Modeling workshop advisor
Fall 2008
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II (two sections merged)Course Release funded by NSF-CAREER awardMATH 699 Independent Study on Evolutionary OptimizationMATH 700 M.S. Thesis on SVD Clustering
Spring 2009
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II (two sections merged)Course Release funded by NSF-CAREER awardMATH 399 Independent Study Bayesian Analysis of Sports StatisticsMATH 417 Independent Study on Text MiningMATH 699 Independent Study—Programming Project Evol. Optimiz.MATH 699 Independent Study—Technical Communication
Fall 2009
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II (two sections merged)MATH 451/551 Linear ProgrammingCourse Release funded by NSF-CAREER awardMATH 499 Bachelor’s Essay Models for Ranking Prediction
Spring 2010
MATH 452/552 Operations ResearchMATH 580 Special Topics: Integer ProgrammingCourse Release funded by NSF-CAREER awardMATH 499 Bachelor’s Essay Models for Ranking PredictionMATH 499 Math. Models for Computer Programming Behavior
Fall 2010
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II (two sections merged)Course Release funded by NSF-CAREER award
MATH 700 (6 hours) M.S. Thesis on Recommendation Systems
Spring 2011
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express IICourse Release funded by NSF award
Fall 2011
MATH 700 (6 hours) M.S. Thesis Minimum Violations Ranking
Fall 2012
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II (two sections merged)Course Release funded by NSF award
Spring 2013
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II (two sections merged)Course Release funded by NSF award
Fall 2013
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II MATH 451/551 OptimizationPEAC 120 Women’s Self-Defense
Spring 2014
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II MATH 452/552 Operations ResearchPEAC 120 Women’s Self-Defense (two sections)
Fall 2014
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II (two sections merged)Course Release funded by NSF awardPEAC 120 Women’s Self-Defense (two sections)
Spring 2015
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II (two sections merged)MATH 399 Women in MathematicsMATH 417 Sports AnalyticsMATH 699 Sports Analytics
Course Release funded by NSF awardPEAC 120 Women’s Self-Defense (three sections)
Fall 2015
MATH 105 Business Calculus MATH 451/551 Optimization
MATH 499 Textual analysis of humble vs. non-humble speechMATH 499 Wreck this Calculus Book SeriesPEAC 120 Women’s Self-Defense (two sections)
Spring 2016
MATH 105 Business Calculus--Express II MATH 452/552 Operations ResearchMATH 499 Textual analysis of humble vs. non-humble speechMATH 499 Wreck this Calculus Book SeriesPEAC 120 Women’s Self-Defense (two sections)
Teaching/Educational Professional DevelopmentInformal Seminar at CofC: Educational PhilosophiesPreparing the Professoriate Program at NCSU
Courses at NCSU EMS 786-Teaching in College ENG 610A-Advanced Writing for Academics
Workshops: MAA ATLAST: Teaching Linear Algebra New Faculty WorkshopEDTECH – Education and TechnologyMentoring Graduate Students for SuccessFelder/Brent Effective College TeachingWomen in Academic Careers ConferenceFaculty Center for Teaching and Learning - Portfolio WorkshopCampus Writing and Speaking Lecture seriesNCSU Leadership Program
RESEARCH
HONORS and AWARDS
11 invited Keynote Presentations at various conferences, political meetings6 requests (3 accepted) to serve as scientific expert on patent infringement cases5 requests to serve as expert from academia on Small Business Proposals10 requests to serve as expert on NSF panelsCISE-CFF-AF grant from NSF, 2011-2015CAREER award from NSF, 2006-2011Invited member of Women in Mathematics Committee ACM, SIAM, MAA,AASInside Science TV segment: Mathematicians introduce novel techniques for rating sports
Teams. Nov. 19, 2012, www.insidescience.org/content/rating-sports-teams-new-ways/845Tech Talk WRLR 98.3fm Radio Interview for Who’s #1 bookRunner-up for Best New Book in Computer and Information Science, 2007,
Association of American Publishers (Google’s PageRank and Beyond)Book (Google’s PageRank and Beyond) translated into Russian, Greek, Japanese, Chinese
Mathematically ranking ranking methods press release from the SIAM Connect,May 25, 2011 and appeared in over 300 blogs, online news sources, and webpages.
IEEE podcast of work on Mathematically ranking ranking methodsTop-cited paper from 2005-2010 for Computational Statistics and Data AnalysisTwo NMF algorithms appear as MATLAB built-in functions, 2008-presentTwo NMF algorithms appear as proc topicvector in SAS software, 2008-presentProvisional Patent submitted on ranking in social networks, 2010U.S. Provisional Patent, No.61/405,381: Ranking Twitter Users with Sports Ranking
Methods. Filed October 21, 2010.Full Patent submitted on ranking in social networks, 2011S.C. Governor’s Professor of the Year Finalist, 2012G. E. Jones Distinguished Achievement Award, College of Charleston, 2005-2006S.C. Governor’s Award for Excellence in Science, nominated 2008CofC’s Teacher-Scholar Award, 2011, nominated 2007, 2009, 2010CofC’s Distinguished Researcher Award, nominated 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013AAUW Young Researcher Award, nominated 2007
Distinguished Alumni Award, NCSU, 2008Hall of Fame, Mt. St. Mary’s, 2008 Player of the Year Award, 2007-2008
Conferences and PresentationsIndustrial Research Presentations
Yahoo! Research. San Francisco, CA. Presentation (Oct. 18, 2005): The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization in Data Mining.
SAS Institute, Inc. Cary, NC. Presentation (Sept. 21, 2006): Data Visualization Tools.Presentation (Sept. 20, 2005): Alternating Linear Programming for the NMF.Presentation (June 9, 2005): Alternating Least Squares Algorithms for the NMF.Presentation (Apr. 22, 2005): Algorithms for the NMF in Text Mining.Presentation (Feb. 9, 2005): Experiments with the NMF and Reuters10 Dataset.
Presentation (Dec. 20, 2004): Scalability and Robustness of the NMF for Text Mining.Presentation (Nov. 18, 2004): The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Text Mining.Presentation (Oct. 29, 2003): Linked Data and a MFPT Alternative to LSI.
Fortune Interactive. Raleigh, NC. Presentation (Sept. 22, 2006): Search Engine Optimization.
Semandex Networks, Inc. Princeton, NJ. Conference (Sept. 25-26, 2006): Math. Models in Counterterrorism. Capitol Hill, DC.
Webmaster’s Forum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Presentation (Jan. 25, 2007): Google’s PageRank and Beyond.
The Boeing Company. Seattle, WA. Presentation (May 18, 2006.): The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization in Data Mining.Presentation (Jan. 23, 2003.): Markov Chains and Information Retrieval.
Service Talks to Politicians College of Charleston, Board of Trustees Meeting. Charleston, SC.
Presentation (March 20, 2014.): Ranking and Clustering: from webpages and teams to people and products.
AMS Talk on Capitol Hill. Washington, DC.Invited Keynote (Nov. 16, 2006): The Necessity of Mathematics: From Google to
Counterterrorism to Sudoku The National Security Agency. Fort Meade, MD.
Presentation (Nov. 17, 2006.): The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization in Data Mining. Dept. of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellows Conference. Capitol Hill, DC.
Invited Keynote (June 22, 2005): Information Retrieval and Computing: The Big Picture.
Service Talks to General or Undergraduate Audience College of Charleston SCAMP (SC Alliance for Minority Participation) Meeting, Charleston, SC.
Presentation (Feb. 8, 2016): What can I do with a math major? College of Charleston Math C-MAP Camp, Charleston, SC.
Presentation (June 12, 2015): What can I do with a math major? Mercer University Undergraduate Research in Mathematics Conference, Macon, GA. Keynote.
Presentation (Feb. 21, 2015): My Life as a Mathematical Consultant. Mercer University Undergraduate Research in Mathematics Conference, Macon, GA. Keynote.
Presentation (Feb. 21, 2015): Random Search, Ordered Results. Hawkes Software RTIME Conference, Charleston, SC.
Presentation (March 1, 2014): Implementing Hawkes in a fast-track course. MAA State Dinner, Coastal Carolina University, SC, Keynote speaker.
Presentation (Oct. 26, 2013): Random Search, Ordered Results: How search engines usemathematics to organize the Web.
Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, invited Infinite Horizons speaker.Presentation (Sept. 13, 2013): Random Search, Ordered Results: How search engines use
mathematics to organize the Web. Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, GA, invited Infinite Horizons speaker.
Presentation (Sept. 13, 2013): My Life as a Mathematical Consultant. National Museum of Mathematics, New York, NY, Grand Opening, Invited Keynote Speaker.
Presentation (Jan. 2, 2013): Random Search, Ordered Results: How search engines use
mathematics to organize the Web. Mt. Olive College, NC, Martin Lecture, Invited Keynote Speaker.
Presentation (Mar. 4, 2011): Google-opoly. College of Charleston, SC, Math Meet, Invited Keynote Speaker.
Presentation (Feb. 20, 2010): Google-opoly. Hamilton Institute, Maynooth, Ireland, Invited Lecturer to graduate students.
Presentation (Aug. 8, 2008): Applications of Nonnegative Matrices: Ranking and Clustering. N.C. State University, Graduation Speaker, Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Presentation (May 10, 2008): 5 Lessons for Graduates. The College of Charleston, ACM student seminar. Charleston, SC.
Presentation (Oct. 23, 2007): Google’s PageRank and Beyond. The Citadel, Mathematics Department Seminar. Charleston, SC.
Presentation (Oct. 16, 2007): Google’s PageRank and Beyond. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Women in Computer Science Seminar.
Presentation (Jan. 24, 2007): An Intro. to the Use of Link Analysis by Web Search Engines. Davidson College, Mathematics Department Seminar. Charlotte, NC.
Presentation (Feb. 16, 2006): An Intro. to the Use of Link Analysis by Web Search Engines. University of Delaware, SIAM Student Chapter Seminar. Newark, DE.
Presentation (May 5, 2005): An Intro. to the Use of Link Analysis by Web Search Engines. Columbia University, Inaugural SIAM Student Chapter Seminar. NY, NY.
Presentation (Nov. 23, 2004): An Intro. to the Use of Link Analysis by Web Search Engines. Mt. St. Mary's College, Math. and Comp.Science Seminar. Emmitsburg, MD.
Presentation (Apr. 19, 2004): An Intro. to the Use of Link Analysis by Web Search Engines.
Academic Research Presentations INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Poster (presented by Tyler Perini).
Presentation (Nov. 1, 2015): The Humility Project: Text analysis for characteristic linguistic patterns INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Poster (presented by Tyler Perini).
Presentation (Nov. 1, 2015): Stable Matching Problem: a survey including a new variant. Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC. Basketball Analytics Summit, (presented by L. Valentino).
Poster (April 15, 2015): Analyzing Injuries in the NBA. Carolina Sports Analytics Meeting, Furman University, SC, (presented by S. Gorman).
Poster (April 11, 2015): Ranking Coaches to help predict March Madness. Carolina Sports Analytics Meeting, Furman University, SC, (presented by T. Sulek).
Poster (April 11, 2015): Combine, Drafts, and Running Backs. Carolina Sports Analytics Meeting, Furman University, SC, (presented by A. Passarello).
Poster (April 11, 2015): Predictability of Upsets in March Madness. Machine Learning Conference, Atlanta, GA. Invited Keynote. Sept. 2014. Carolina Sports Analytics Meeting, Furman University, SC. Poster. April 12, 2014. Carolina Sports Analytics Meeting, Furman University, SC. Invited Panelist. April 13, 2013. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
Presentation (Oct. 8, 2013): Predicting Head-to-Head Matchups in NCAA Basketball. College of Charleston, Sabbatical Presentation.
Presentation (Sept. 14, 2012): 2012 Consulting Projects and Clustering by Optimization. Neural Info. Processing Conference, Lake Tahoe, NV, Social Choice Workshop. Invited Keynote.
Presentation (Dec. 8, 2012): Ranking with Optimization. AIM Mathematics of Ranking Conference, Stanford, CA, Aug. 18, 2010.
Presentation: PageRank from 1998 to Now. SIAM Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Raleigh, NC, Mar. 21, 2010.
Presentation: Ranking by Optimization Methods. MAA Southeastern State Dinner, Charleston, SC, Mar. 30, 2009.
Presentation: Mathematics Everywhere: from Google to Sudoku to NCAA to Netflix. Tsukuba University, PhilOpt Seminar. Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 30, 2009.
Presentation: The Science of Rating Items: from webpages to teams to movies. SEAMS Cha Cha Days. Chapel Hill, NC, Nov. 2, 2008.
Presentation: Rank and Rating Aggregation. Hamilton Institute Workshop on Nonnegative Matrices. Maynooth, Ireland, Aug. 6, 2008.
Presentation: Rank and Rating Aggregation. Southern Methodist University, Mathematics Seminar. Dallas, Texas, Nov. 14, 2007.
Presentation: Google’s PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings. Numerical Linear Algebra, Internet, and Large Applications. Monopoli, Italy, Sep. 11, 2007.
Presentation: Clustering with the SVD. ILAS International Meeting. Shanghai, China, Jul. 16, 2007.
Presentation: Google’s PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings. NISS Workshop on the NMF. Raleigh, NC, Feb. 23, 2007.
Presentation: The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization: a tutorial. Web Information Retrieval and Linear Algebra Algorithms. Dagstuhl, Germany, Feb. 14, 2007.
Presentation: Clustering with the SVD and the NMF. Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets. Stanford, CA, June 21-24, 2006. Markov Anniversary Meeting. Charleston, SC, June 12-14, 2006.
Presentation: The Five Greatest Applications of Markov Chains. INFORMS Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA, November 14, 2005.
Presentation: The Nonnegative Matrix Factorization in Data Mining. SIAM Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, July 11-15, 2005. Invited Symposium Organizer
Presentation: Introduction to Eigenvector Methods in Information Retrieval. SIAM Southeastern Section Annual Meeting. Charleston, SC, March 25-26, 2005.
Presentation: Text Mining using the Nonnegative Matrix. MAA Southeastern Section 84th Annual Meeting. Raleigh, NC, March 11-12, 2005.
Presentation: Information Retrieval and Web Search. SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Conference. Orlando, FL, Feb. 11-15, 2005.
Presentation: Updating the Stationary Vector of an Irreducible Markov Chain. SIAM Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon. July 12-16, 2004. SIAG-LA-sponsored symposium.
Presentation: Updating PageRank. The Mathematics of Web Search and Meta-Search. Bertinoro, Italy, June 19-26, 2004.
Presentation: Updating and Reordering for the PageRank Problem World Wide Web Conference. New York, NY, May 19-21, 2004.
Poster Presentation: Updating PageRank with Iterative Aggregation College of Charleston, Mathematics Seminar. Charleston, SC, Feb. 27, 2004.
Presentation: Solution Methods for the PageRank Problem. Emory University, Computational Mathematics Seminar. Atlanta, GA, Jan. 30, 2004.
Presentation: Updating Large-Scale Markov Chains.
Stanford University, Computational Math Seminar. Palo Alto, CA, Nov. 17, 2003.Presentation: Updating PageRank.
Co-Chair. Fourth International Conference on the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. September 3-5, 2003. Keynote Address: The Life and Work of A. A. Markov.
Minisymposium Organizer. Search Engines, Markov Chains and Clustering. SIAM Conferenceon Applied Linear Algebra, College of William and Mary, July 15-19, 2003. Presentation: An Introduction to Markov-based Information Retrieval Systems.
Co-Chair. Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra: C.D. Meyer’s 60th
Celebration. Raleigh, NC, May 15, 2003. Third SIAM International Conference on Data Mining; Text Mining Workshop.
San Francisco, CA, May 1-3, 2003. Second SIAM Int. Conference on Data Mining; Text Mining Workshop. Arlington,
VA, Apr. 11-13, 2002. Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrices, Tahoe City, CA, Apr. 29, 2001.
Presentation: Preconditioning for Stochastic Automata Networks.
Radio Interviews
Tech Talk with Michael Kastler, Chicago WRLR 98.3FM, Apr. 21, 2012.Radio Interview: Who’s #1?: The Science of Rating and Ranking.
IEEE Spectrum Podcast with Steven Cherry, June 22, 2011.Podcast Interview: Football Rankings versus Google’s PageRank.
AirTalk, Southern California KPCC 89.3FM, Nov. 28, 2006.Radio Interview: The Science of Search Engine Rankings.
RESEARCH Publications
CofC Publications
Books: Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Who’s #1?: The Science of Rating and Ranking. Princeton
University Press, 2012. (253 pages, I wrote 14 of 18 chapters.) Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search
Engine Rankings. Princeton University Press, 2006. (233 pages; I wrote 11 of 12 chapters.) Amy N. Langville and William J. Stewart, eds. Proceedings of the Markov Anniversary Meeting.
Boson Press, 2006.
Journal Articles: Jennifer C. Wright, Thomas Nadelhoffer, Tyler Perini, Amy N. Langville, Matt Echols, and Kelly
Venezia. The Psychological Significance of Humility. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 2016. To appear.
Timothy P. Chartier, Victoria Ellison, and Amy N. Langville. The Davidson College Multi-Objective Assignment problem: a case study. 4OR—The Quarterly Journal of Operations Research, 12(4):379-401, 2014.
Timothy P. Chartier, Kevin Hutson, Amy N. Langville, and Charles Wessell. Reducing the effect ofan unequal number of games on rankings, IMAGE Bulletin of the International Linear AlgebraSociety, 52, 2014, p 15-23.
Michael W. Berry, Timothy P. Chartier, Kevin Hutson, and Amy N. Langville. Identifying influentialedges in a directed network: big events, upsets, and non-transitivity, Complex Networks, Dec. 6, 2013.
Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Do the Math: no ranking system is No. 1: whyrankings are flawed. Scientific American, June 26, 2012, p. 1-3.
Timothy P. Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy N. Langville, Daniel A. Martin and Kathryn Pedings. Accounting for Ties when Ranking Items. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, to appear.
Amy N. Langville, Kathryn Pedings, and Yoshitsugu Yamamoto. A Minimum Violations RankingMethod. Optimization and Engineering, 2011, p. 1-22.
Timothy P. Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy N. Langville, and Kathryn Pedings. Sensitivity andStability of Ranking Methods. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2011, 33(3):1077-1102.
Timothy P. Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy N. Langville, and Kathryn Pedings,. Sports Rankingwith nonuniform weighting. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2011, 7(3), Article 6.
Timothy P. Chartier, Amy N. Langville and Peter Simov. March Madness to Movies. Math Horizons, April 2010: 16-19.
Anjela Y. Govan, Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Offense-defense approach to ranking team sports. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. 5(1), Article 4, 2009. (16 pages)
Amy N. Langville, Michael W. Berry, Murray Browne, V. Paul Pauca, and Robert J. Plemmons. Algorithms and Applications for Approximate Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 52(1):155-173, 2007.
Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. A Survey of Eigenvectors methods for Web Information Retrieval. SIAM Review, 47(1):135-161, 2005.
Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Deeper Inside PageRank. Internet Mathematics, 1(3):335-380, 2005.
Book Chapters: Brett W, Bader, Michael W. Berry, and Amy N. Langville. Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor
Factorization for Discussion Tracking, Text Mining: Theory, Applications, and Visualization, Chapman & Hall, 2009. (32 pages)
Amy N. Langville and Michael W. Berry. Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Anomaly and Trend Detection. Next Generation of Data Mining, H. Kargupta, J. Han, P. Yu, R. Motwani, and V. Kumar eds., CRC Press, p. 335-352, 2008.
Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Information Retrieval and Web Search. The Handbook of Linear Algebra. CRC Press, Chapter 63, p 1-16, 2006.
Conference Proceedings: Timothy P. Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy N. Langville, Kathryn Pedings, and Yoshitsugu
Yamamoto. Mininum Violations Sports Ranking using Evolutionary Optimization andBinary Integer Linear Program Approaches. Proceedings of the Tenth Australian Conference
on Mathematics and Computers in Sports. Mathsport, 2010:13-20. Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Updating Markov Chains. Proceedings of the Markov
Anniversary Meeting. Boson Press, 2006, 153-168. Philipp von Hilgers and Amy N. Langville. The Five Greatest Applications of Markov Chains.
Proceedings of the Markov Anniversary Meeting. Boson Press, 2006, 229-238. Andre Berger, Nader Razouk, Greg Angelides, Andy Bartlett, Amy N. Langville, Zhilin Li,
Craig Lipkin, Nsoki Mavinga, Elizabeth Perez, Eamonn Tweedy, Erik Wheeler. Locally Constrained Shortest Paths and an Application in Mission Planning. Proceedings of the 44th ACM Southeast Conference. ACM, Mar. 2006. (4 pages)
Electronic Journal Articles: Amy N. Langville. Who’s #1: The Science of Rating and Ranking. Mathematics Awareness Month:
The Future of Prediction, April 2016, http://www.mathaware.org/mam/2016/essay/. Timothy P. Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy N. Langville, and Kathryn Pedings. Survival of the
Fittest: Evolutionary Optimization and Ranking. LOCI, to appear. E. Aghapour, T. Chartier, B. Kovacevich, A. Langville, K. Pedings. Google’s PageRank: The
Mathematics of Google. SIAM Why do Math? SIAM, 2010. Timothy P. Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy N. Langville, and Kathryn Pedings. Google-opoly.
LOCI, 2010. Timothy P. Chartier, Erich Kreutzer, Amy N. Langville, and Kathryn Pedings. Bracketology:
How can math help? Joint Policy Board of Mathematics, Mathematics Awareness Month 2010 web page, http://www.mathaware.org/mam/2010/essays/ChartierBracketology.pdf.
Andrew Bartlett, Timothy Chartier, Amy N. Langville, and Timothy Rankin. An Integer Programming Model for the Sudoku Problem. Journal of Online Mathematics and itsApplications. MAA, (8):1-14 , 2008.
Amy N. Langville. The Linear Algebra behind Search Engines. Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications. MAA, (12):1-10, 2005.
Technical Reports (unpublished working papers): Amy N. Langville, Carl D. Meyer, Russell Albright, James Cox, and David Duling.
Initializations, Algorithms, and Convergence for the Nonnegative Matrix Factorization.SAS Internal Report, 2007. (10 pages)
CofC Publications (done during final postdoctoral year at N.C. State University)
Journal Articles: Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. The Use of Linear Algebra by Web Search Engines. IMAGE
Newsletter, 33:2-6, Dec. 2004. Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. A Reordering for the PageRank problem. SIAM Journal on
Scientific Computing, 27(6):2112-2120, 2006. Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Updating the Stationary Vector of an Irreducible Markov
Chain with an Eye on Google’s PageRank. SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis,
27(4):968-987, 2006.
Conference Proceedings: Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Updating PageRank with Iterative Aggregation. Proceedings
of the Thirteenth World Wide Web Conference. New York: ACM Press, 392-393, 2004.
Pre-CofC Publications
Books: Amy N. Langville and William J. Stewart, eds. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Press, Sept. 2003.
Journal Articles: Gely P. Basharin, Amy N. Langville, and Valeriy A. Naumov. The Life and Work of A. A. Markov.
Linear Algebra and its Applications, 386:3-26, 2004. Amy N. Langville and William J. Stewart. A Kronecker Product Approximate Preconditioner for SANs.
Journal of Numerical Linear Algebra, 11(8):723-752, 2004. Amy N. Langville. The Kronecker Product and Stochastic Automata Networks. Journal of
Computational and Applied Mathematics, 167(2): 429-447, 2004. Amy N. Langville and William J. Stewart. Testing the nearest Kronecker product preconditioner
on MCs and SANs. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 16(3):300-315, 2004.
Technical Reports (unpublished working papers): Norm Curet and Amy N. Langville. Applying Mathematical Programming Techniques to the
Network Diversion Problem. NSA Unclassified Internal Report. R55-052-98. Sept. 1998.
PROPOSALSFundedNSF RUI, Lagrangian Relaxations for Ranking and Clustering Integer Programs, 2011-2014, $399,128NSF CAREER Award: Web Information Retrieval and a Mathematical Device Dissection Lab, $400,000NSF Supplemental Funding: PageRank as a Random Surfer Video, $9,881NSF Supplemental Funding: Summer student REU/REG funding, $10,000NSF-DMS Workshop of Southeastern Clustering and Ranking Group, $11,841, August 2009
SubmittedNSF RUI, Ranking and Matching under preferences, 2016-2019, $399,897
RejectedNSF CCF-AF-RUI: Ranking and Matching under Preferences, 2015NSF FODAVA, Matrix Visualization and Ranking Algorithms, 2009NIH, for Early Detection of Autism, 2009
American Institute of Mathematics, for Nonnegative Matrix Workshop, 2007CofC Lowcountry Graduate Center, for Data Mining Research Center, 2008NSF Conference on Markov Chains, 2005
SERVICE
Department of MathematicsResearch and Development Committee, 2014-presentCOMAP Math. Modeling Competition, faculty advisor, 2006-presentMATH 105 Committee Member, 2006-presentAdvising:
26 Independent Studies7 Student Research Groups4 B.S. Theses 5 M.S. Theses 4 Ph.D. Theses (committee member of NCSU dissertations)8 Summer REUs (4 NSF-funded at NCSU, 2 NSF-funded at Davidson, 2 CofC SURF)
Student presentations and poster sessions (over 55 regional + international sessions)
College of CharlestonWomen in STEM Club, faculty advisor, 2016-presentMath. Dept. Recruitment, March 21, 2016Honors College Recruitment, Feb. 6, 2016Co-creator + Instructor First-Year Experience pairing Feminist Self-Defense, 2015Gender and Sexuality Equity Center, 3 presentations on Self-Defense, 2015PEAC 120 Women’s Self-Defense paperwork to get course numberInstructor, Women’s Self-Defense PEAC 120 course, 2 sections/semester, 2013-presentCo-creator, Women’s Self-Defense PEAC 120 course, 2013-presentAdvisor for Honors Thesis, 2006, 2010, 2011Student Affairs and Athletics Committee Member, 2006-2007Faculty Advisor, Charity Anywhere student club, 2005-2009
Dominican Republic Trip, May 2006Hurricane Katrina Trip, Spring Break 2007Displaced Ugandans DC, May 2007Habitat Builds, Charleston, 2006-2008Alliance for Planet Earth Charleston Clean-ups, 2007-2008
Sponsor of Eco Week at CofC, 2008
Advisor for CofC’s Trash audit, recycling awareness 2008, 2009Advisor for CofC’s Focus the Nation program, global warming awareness, 2008Alliance for Planet Earth, advisor 2009-2010Bike Share Project, sponsor, 2011-2012SSM Sabbatical Review Committee, 2012Teacher-Scholar Review Committee, 2013, 2014, 2015
ProfessionalMember, INFORMS, SIAM, MAASIAM Polya Prize Committee Member, 2016-2017MAA Committee Member, Math Awareness Month, 2015-2016SIAM News, Editorial Board, liaison to SIAG/LA (Linear Algebra), 2014-presentEditorial Board, Complex Networks, 2013-presentWomen in Mathematics Committee ACM, SIAM, MAA, AAS, 2009-2011Chair, Southeastern Ranking and Clustering Workshop, 2009Program Committee, Numerical Solution of Markov Chains, 2010Program Committee, World Wide Web Conference, 2008, 2009SIAM Whydomath.org Project module, 2008-2010Chair, Markov Anniversary Conference, June 12-14, 2006Chair, Meyer 60 Celebration, Raleigh, NC May 2005Math. Device Dissection Lab (see NSF CAREER proposal), 2005-presentFaculty advisor, Industrial Math. And Stat. Modeling Workshops, 2005, 2006, 2007Education Outreach Chair, SAMSI, 2006-presentWebmaster for Web Mining website containing code and data filesSeminar leader, Link Analysis, 2004-2005Mini-symposium organizer, SIAM, MAA, AMS, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008Refereeing:
ACM Experimental Algorithmics (1), 2010ACM Transactions on Information Systems (1), 2006Applied Mathematics and Computation (1), 2012Applied Mathematics Letters (1), 2007Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (1), 2009BIT (3), 2004, 2005, 2007Columbian Journal of Statistics (1), 2012Complex Networks (6), 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016Computational and Applied Mathematics (1), 2009Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (1), 2007Computational Optimization in Economics and Finance (1), 2010Computational Statistics and Data Mining (1), 2008Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (1), 2009Electronic Linear Algebra (1), 2004Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (1), 2007European Performance Evaluation (1), 2005Experimental Algorithmics (1), 2010
International Conference on Machine Learning (1), 2006IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1), 2006IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2), 2008, 2011ILAS Proceedings (1), 2007 Image Processing (1), 2009INFORMS Journal on Computing (1), 2007Internet Mathematics (1), 2012Linear Algebra and its Applications (4), 2003, 2005, 2006, 2012Link Analysis book (1), 2007Matrix Computations book by Van Loan (1), 2012Numerical Linear Algebra (1), 2006Numerical Solution of Markov Chains Proceedings (4), 2010Performance Evaluation (3), 2003, 2005, 2006Princeton University Press (6 books), 2008-presentSIAM Review (2), 2006SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and its Applications (3), 2006, 2006, 2007SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (3), 2003, 2005, 2006 Signal Processing (1), 2008Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (1), 2008 Stochastic Models (1), 2005Theoretical Computer Science (1), 2012Web Algorithms Workshop (3), 2012Web Analysis Textbook Chapter for Bing Lui, colleague at Urbana-Champaign, 2007World Wide Web Conference 2008 (5)World Wide Web Conference 2009 (4)World Wide Web Conference 2012 (3)
NSF Panels:Algorithmic, Statistical, and Mathematical Foundations of Data Science, 2016 Expeditions in Training, Research, and Development for Math and Stats, 2013Data Mining, 2010Foundations of Data Analysis and Visualization, 2008Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement, 2007Numerical Computing, 2007
CommunityWomen’s Self-Defense Instructor, 2013-present Folly Beach Trash Sweeps, 2015Sponsor of Jenkins Orphanage Music Program, 2007-2010Habitat for Humanity Volunteer, 2005-2009Board Member, Chad K. Haynes Memorial Foundation, 2005-2008