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<h1>Spencer Nicholas Whitehead</h1>
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Courriel: <a href="mailto:spencer@firemail.cc">spencer@firemail.cc</a><br>
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No de tél.: +1 984 312 9089
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<h2>Education</h2>
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<p><strong>Doctorant, Department of Mathematics, Université Duke</strong> | septembre 2022 – Avril 2027</p>
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<li>Currently researching four- and eight-dimensional geometry with Prof. Mark Stern.</li>
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<li>Member of 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), Université de Waterloo</strong> | Octobre 2021 – août 2022</p>
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<li>Supervisé de Prof. Benoit Charbonneau.</li>
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<li>Titre du thèse: Integrality theorems for symmetric instantons.</li>
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<p><strong>B.Math. in Pure Mathematics; Minor in études de l'Asie d'Est, Université de Waterloo</strong> | septembre 2016 – août 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>Stagiaire en ingénierie logicielle</strong>, Citadel Enterprise, Janvier 2020 – Avril 2020</p>
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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>Stagiaire en ingénierie logicielle</strong>, ContextLogic LLC, Janvier 2018 – Avril 2018</p>
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<li>Worked as a member of the Platform Data team, monitoring the health of policies and shipping estimates.</li>
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<li>Conducted shipping time estimate experiments ranging from neutral 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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<p><strong>Stagiaire en ingénierie logicielle</strong>, Citadel LLC, septembre 2017 – décembre 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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<h2>Skills</h2>
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<dt><strong>Langages</strong></dt>
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<dd>anglais, français (DELF B2), japonais (niveau B2/C1).</dd>
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<dt><strong>Langages de programmation</strong></dt>
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<dd>C, C++, Python, Sage, Maple, Haskell.</dd>
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<dt><strong>Logiciel</strong></dt>
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<dd>sklearn, numpy, (geo)pandas, pytorch, SQL.</dd>
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<h2>Leadership and Professional Service</h2>
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<p>Délegué syndical, Duke Graduate Students Union, septembre 2025 - prèsent</p>
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<li>Mediated workplace disputes and represented graduate workers in grievance proceedings.</li>
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<p>Président, Chapitre étudiant de l'American Mathematical Society, année scolaire 2024-25</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, fevrier 2025.</li>
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<p>Représentant des doctorants, Duke Mathematics Departmental Teaching Committee, novembre 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, et Spencer Whitehead. "On a smoothness characterization for good moduli spaces." <em>Advances in Mathematics</em> 442 (Avril 2024).</li>
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<li>Charbonneau, B. et 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>[Invité] <em>An asymptotic Nahm transform for Spin(7) instantons.</em> Mathematical Congress of the Americas, Miami, juliet 2025.</li>
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<li><em>Symmetric instantons.</em> (Poster). Geometric Models of Matter, Leeds, août 2024.</li>
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<li><em>Generalized Pythagorean lutes.</em> Bridges 2022, Helsinki, août 2022.</li>
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<li><em>Integrality theorems for symmetric instantons.</em> Union College Mathematics Conference, Schenectady, juin 2022.</li>
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<h3>Selected Teaching Experience</h3>
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<p><strong>Chargé de cours</strong> MATH 106L (Lab calculus 2), août - décembre 2023, Université Duke</p>
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<li>Instruction et coordination d'une classe de 18 élèves.</li>
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<li>Gestion d'un equipe de 4 auxiliaires d'enseignment</li>
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<p><strong>Auxiliaire d'enseignment</strong> CS 246(E) ([Enriched] Object-Oriented Software Development), septembre 2018 - décembre 2019, Université de 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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