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<h1>Spencer Nicholas Whitehead</h1>
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<address>
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Email: <a href="mailto:spencer@firemail.cc">spencer@firemail.cc</a><br>
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Phone: +1 984 312 9089
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<h2>Education</h2>
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<p><strong>Ph.D. candidate, Department of Mathematics, Duke University</strong>, September 2022 – April 2027 (expected)</p>
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<li>Currently researching four- and eight-dimensional geometry with Dr. Mark Stern.</li>
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<li>Member in the Certificate in College Teaching program, to be awarded on graduation.</li>
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<p><strong>M.Math. in Pure Mathematics (research thesis), University of Waterloo</strong>, October 2021 – August 2022</p>
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<li>Supervised by Dr. Benoit Charbonneau.</li>
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<li>Thesis title: Integrality theorems for symmetric instantons.</li>
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<p><strong>B.Math. in Pure Mathematics; Minor in East Asian Studies, University of Waterloo</strong>, September 2016 – August 2021</p>
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<li>Recipient of 2021 Alumni Gold Medal for the Faculty of Mathematics.</li>
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<li>Recipient of 2021 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.</li>
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<h2>Industry Experience</h2>
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<p><strong>Software Engineering Intern</strong>, Citadel Enterprise, January 2020 – April 2020</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Developed C++ data pipelines to parse and archive data streams from Thompson Reuters.</li>
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<li>Handled over 300GB per day of market data at the height of the market impact of COVID-19.</li>
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<p><strong>Software Engineering Intern</strong>, ContextLogic LLC, January 2018 – April 2018</p>
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<li>Conducted shipping time estimate experiments providing up to gross +2.5% profits.</li>
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<li>Created reports and Grafana dashboards combining data from MongoDB and TreasureData tracking merchant policy effectiveness.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><strong>Software Engineering Intern</strong>, Citadel LLC, September 2017 – December 2017</p>
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<li>Worked on the Accounting Development Team, creating and maintaining software for over 100 clients.</li>
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<li>Designed, tested, and implemented new response formats reducing response size by 10x and increasing speed 5x.</li>
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</ul>
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</article>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Skills</h2>
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<dl>
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<dt><strong>Languages</strong></dt>
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<dd>English, French (DELF B2), Japanese (B2/C1 level).</dd>
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<dt><strong>Programming</strong></dt>
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<dd>C, C++, Python, Sage, Maple, Scheme, Haskell.</dd>
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<dt><strong>Software</strong></dt>
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<dd>sklearn, numpy, (geo)pandas, pytorch, SQL.</dd>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Leadership and Professional Service</h2>
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<p>Steward, Duke Graduate Students Union, Fall 2025 - present</p>
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<li>Mediated workplace disputes and represented graduate workers in grievance proceedings.</li>
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<p>President, AMS Student Chapter, 2024-25 academic year</p>
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<li>Organized and hosted the Triangle Area Graduate Mathematics Seminar with NC State University and UNC Chapel Hill at Duke, February 2025.</li>
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<p>Graduate student representative, Duke Mathematics Departmental Teaching Committee, Fall 2023 - present</p>
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<li>Performed annual interviews and advocated for graduate interests in departmental teaching decisions.</li>
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<h2>Academic Activity</h2>
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<h3>Selected Publications</h3>
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<li>Edidin, Dan, Matthew Satriano, and Spencer Whitehead. "On a smoothness characterization for good moduli spaces." <em>Advances in Mathematics</em> 442 (April 2024).</li>
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<li>Charbonneau, B. and Whitehead, S. "Studying Wythoff and Zometool Constructions using Maple." <em>Maple in Mathematics Education and Research</em> (pp. 65–76), 2020.</li>
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<h3>Supervision</h3>
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<p><strong>Duke Math+ program</strong> (joint with Biji Wong, Gregory Herschlag), Spring 2026</p>
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<p>Supervised four undergraduate students in a project on the application of diffusion maps and machine learning to graph partition problems, with a focus on the study of gerrymandering.</p>
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<p><strong>MITACS internship program</strong> (joint with Benoit Charbonneau), Spring 2022</p>
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<p>Supervised two undergraduate students in a computational project on low-dimensional optimal packing problems</p>
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<h3>Selected Research Presentations</h3>
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<li>[Invited] <em>An asymptotic Nahm transform for Spin(7) instantons.</em> Mathematical Congress of the Americas, Miami, July 2025.</li>
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<li><em>Symmetric instantons.</em> (Poster). Geometric Models of Matter, Leeds, August 2024.</li>
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<li><em>Generalized Pythagorean lutes.</em> Bridges 2022, Helsinki, August 2022.</li>
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<li><em>Integrality theorems for symmetric instantons.</em> Union College Mathematics Conference, Schenectady, June 2022.</li>
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</ul>
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<article>
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<h3>Selected Teaching Experience</h3>
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<p><strong>Instructor of record</strong> MATH 106L (Lab calculus 2), Fall 2023.</p>
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<li>Served as primary instructor and coordinator for a class of 18 students with daily meetings.</li>
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<li>Managed a team of 4 undergraduate teaching assistants.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><strong>Tutorial lecturer</strong> CS 246(E) ([Enriched] Object-Oriented Software Development), Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Winter 2019, University of Waterloo.</p>
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<li>Delivered weekly tutorial lectures for classes of 50+ students.</li>
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<li>Designed assignments and managed the course platform for running and evaluating student code.</li>
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</section>
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