Katie Keegan

About Me

Hello!

I am a first-year PhD student in Computational Math at Emory University, where I am supported by a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship and Emory’s Women in Natural Sciences Fellowship.

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Research Interests

Scientific computing, computational mathematics, machine learning, image processing, numerical linear algebra

Upcoming Activities

• [September 2022] Will attend SIAM Mathematics of Data Science 2022 in-person in San Diego with support from the Emory Math Department.
• [November 2022] Will attend Supercomputing 2022 in-person in Dallas with support from the DOE CSGF.

News

• [August 2022] Started graduate school at Emory University! Also grateful that our Emory REU work was published in SIURO!
• [July 2022] Presented Emory REU work at SIAM Annual Meeting undergraduate research presentations and attended the DOE CSGF 2022 Program Review.

News Archive

Publications

• A Tensor SVD-based Classification Algorithm Applied to fMRI Data
  Katherine Keegan, Tanvi Vishwanath, Yihua Xu
  SIAM Undergraduate Research Online, Volume 15, 2022, pp. 270-294.
  [PDF]

• Media Processing and A Modified Watermarking Scheme Based on the Singular Value Decomposition
  Katherine Keegan, David Melendez, Jennifer Zheng
  SIAM Undergraduate Research Online, Volume 14, 2021, pp. 446-467.
  [PDF]

Other

• Invited article at SIAM News: here
• Featured in MBU News articles: here and here
• I am a licensed private pilot as of December 2021! Here is a cool video of the MBU campus from the sky during a night flight lesson.
• When I’m not in the air or at a desk, I enjoy running, weightlifting, reading, and playing piano.

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