CV

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Contact Information

Name Logan Reed
Email l.reed@temple.edu

Experience

  • 2025 - present

    Philadelphia, PA

    Graduate Researcher
    Temple University
    Advisor: Daniel Szyld
    • Established a near-optimal bound for the convergence of Widlund’s method.
    • Developed and analyzed different implementations of Widlund’s method in the exact and inexact setting.
  • 2024

    Philadelphia, PA

    Graduate Researcher
    Computational Mathematics and Modeling Research Lab, Temple University
    Supervisors: Benjamin Seibold, Gillian Queisser
    • Compared different time-stepping schemes for a highly stiff PDE in an asynchronous setting.
  • 2023

    Camden, NJ

    Master's Thesis
    Rutgers University
    Advisor: Siqi Fu
    • Developed numerical methods for a constrained shape optimization problem related to the Pólya–Szegő conjecture on polygonal domains.
  • 2022 - 2023

    Camden, NJ

    Graduate Researcher
    Applied Mathematics Lab, Rutgers University
    Supervisor: Benedetto Piccoli
    • Contributed to the discretization and implementation of a metabolic pathway model.
    • Developed a PDE solver on a large hypergraph representing the metabolic pathway.

Education

  • 2024 - present

    Philadelphia, PA

    Ph.D.
    Temple University
    Mathematics
    • Research interests: numerical linear algebra, Krylov subspace methods, matrix equations, tensor equations, low-rank tensor computations.
  • 2023

    Camden, NJ

    M.S.
    Rutgers University
    Mathematical Sciences
  • 2021

    San Marcos, TX

    B.S.
    Texas State University
    Applied Mathematics

Talks and Presentations

Oct. 24, 2026: Near-Optimal Convergence of Widlund's Method and Numerical Exploration of Different Implementations. Annual Conference of the New York–New Jersey–Pennsylvania section of SIAM, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ).

Attended Workshops

May 4–8, 2026: Asynchronous Methods for Numerical Linear Algebra, ICERM, Brown University (Providence, RI).
Feb. 2–6, 2026: Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra, ICERM, Brown University (Providence, RI).

Teaching Experience

Spring 2026: Instructor, Precalculus, Temple University.
Fall 2022: Lecturer, College Algebra, Rutgers University.
Fall 2021: Lecturer, College Algebra, Rutgers University.
Fall 2026: Teaching Assistant, Numerical Analysis, Temple University.
Fall 2025: Teaching Assistant, Numerical Analysis, Temple University.
Spring 2022: Teaching Assistant, Calculus I, Rutgers University.
Spring 2022: Mathematics Tutor, Math and Statistics Lab, Rutgers University.
Fall 2021: Mathematics Tutor, Math and Statistics Lab, Rutgers University.
2017–2020: Mathematics Tutor, Math CATs, Texas State University.

Service and Outreach

2025–Present: President, Temple University SIAM Student Chapter.
2025–Present: Graduate Seminar Organizer, Department of Mathematics, Temple University.

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    Distinguished Thesis Award
    Rutgers University
  • 2022
    Mathematical Sciences Scholarship Award
    Rutgers University

Technical Skills

Languages: MATLAB, Python, C, C++, Fortran
Frameworks: NumPy, SciPy, BLAS, LAPACK
Tools: Linux, Git, Bash, LaTeX