Ralph Furmaniak

As of Fall 2009 I have begun Graduate study in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford University.
I did my undergrad degree at the University of Waterloo.

I am interested in number theory.

My research is funded by the Julie Payette fellowship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Publications

Unsupervised Newspaper Segmentation Using Language Context [link]
Ralph Furmaniak
The 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 07), Curitiba, Brazil, Sept 2007

Patents

Methods and systems for analyzing data in media material having layout [link]
Ralph Furmaniak, Ray Smith, Luc Vincent, Dan Bloomberg, Dar-Shyang Lee
US 2008/0107337 A1 November 2006

Media material analysis of continuing article portions [link]
Ralph Furmaniak, Ray Smith, Luc Vincent, Dan Bloomberg, Dar-Shyang Lee
US 2008/0107338 A1 November 2006

Distinctions

Putnam Fellow, William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 2003

North American Champion, Gold Medal (Team), ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, 2005, Shanghai

Other stuff I did before

Gotham Capital, Quantitative Research Lead, July 2007 - August 2009, Manhattan, New York
In charge of developing mathematical models for the trading systems.

Google, Intern, Jan 2006 - Apr 2007, Mountain View, California

University of Waterloo, Bachelor of Mathematics, Honors Pure Mathematics, 2003 - 2008, Waterloo, Ontario