Ben Burns

I'm an undergraduate at UMass Amherst studying math and CS. My general interests are in applications of probability and in mathematical machine learning. I am advised by Markos Katsoulakis and Benjamin Zhang.

This Fall, I will start as a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech CSE.

I'm proud to be both an Undergraduate Course Assistant (UCA) for Formal Language Theory and a UCA program coordinator. I was previously Head UCA for Foundations of Programming and Algorithms, and the grader for number theory.

experience

Below are pages including information on my

• research experience and projects, and
• math and CS course history.

Please feel free to reach out for my CV.

blog

[2024-04-21] UMassCTF 2024 writeups
[2023-06-25] "Missing Skills" not taught by the UMass CS curriculum

news

[2024-04-20] I authored four challenges for UMassCTF 2024 this weekend.
[2024-04-19] I presented our mean-field games approach to SGM in the UMass Theory Seminar and at Mass URC this week.
[2023-10-03] I presented our work on HJB regularizers for SGM in the UMass Theory Seminar.
[2023-09-03] I am organizing the inaugural UMass SIAM seminar series.
[2023-06-02] I will be participating in the 2023 UMass Math REU under the supervision of Markos Katsoulakis and Benjamin Zhang.