Sam Reynolds

Skills

DataAnnotation.tech (Remote)
April 2025 – Present
Developed and reviewed mathematical reasoning tasks for training next-generation language models, both in natural language and in a mathematics formalization paradigm (Lean 4).
Verified solutions and proofs, and documented model reasoning failures.
Peer-reviewed prompt submissions for accuracy and clarity.

Fariborz Maseeh Dept. of Math. and Stats., Portland State University (Portland, Oregon)
June 2016 – June 2024
Designed and implemented finite element methods incorporating mesh cells with cavities and curved edges.
Coauthored four peer-reviewed publications on the analysis and implementation of these methods.
Created, documented, and released the PuncturedFEM Python package (PyPI) for computational experiments and reproducible research.
Contributed to convex optimization research for clustering problems, resulting in two additional peer-reviewed publications.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Remote)
June 2022 – August 2022
Built numerical examples and simulations using MFEM (a C++ library for partial differential equations).
Demonstrated multi-physics modeling techniques in a HPC environment.

Argonne National Laboratory (Remote)
June 2021 – August 2021
Contributed to the PETSc open-source codebase (a C library for scientific computing).
Implemented high-performance algorithms for parallel matrix computations.

Fariborz Maseeh Dept. of Math. and Stats., Portland State University (Portland, Oregon)
September 2019 – December 2020
Gave lectures, prepared course materials, graded student work, and mentored students during office hours.
Total of four courses taught (Calculus I, Calculus IV), two of which were held remotely.

The Learning Center, Portland State University (Portland, Oregon)
April 2016 – August 2019
Assisted undergraduate students in drop-in one-on-one sessions.
Subjects: elementary algebra, calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, introductory physics.

NSF Research Training Group Graduate Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2022, 2023)
Excellence in Remote Teaching Award, PSU Fariborz Maseeh Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics (2020)
Level III (Master) Tutor Certification, College Reading & Learning Association (2019)
F. S. Cater Prize, PSU Fariborz Maseeh Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics (2019)
Christine and David Vernier STEM Scholarship, PSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2016)
Oregon NASA Space Scholarship, Oregon Space Grant Consortium (2015)