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Curriculum vitae for George H. Brooks.

General Information

Full Name George Brooks
Website ghbrooks.me
Location Columbia, SC

Education

  • 2020-2025
    Ph.D. Mathematics
    University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
    • Advisor: Dr. Linyuan Lu
  • 2012-2018
    B.S. Mathematics
    Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI
    • Minor in Chemistry

Academic Employment

  • 2025-Present
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    NSF Research Training Group in Mathematical Foundations of Data Science, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
  • 2025-Present
    Adjunct Professor
    Division of Health, Mathematics & Sciences, Columbia College
  • 2020-2025
    Graduate Instructor - Teaching Assistant
    Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
  • 2018-2020
    Adjunct Instructor - Tutoring Center
    Science & Math Division, Northwestern Michigan College

Awards

  • 2023-2024
    • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, University of South Carolina - Department of Mathematics

Research Interests

  • Extremal combinatorics
  • Spectral graph theory
  • Turan-type problems in hypergraphs, including the l2-norm
  • Discrete curvature of graphs
  • AI-guided search in large combinatorial spaces