Ryan S. Brill

University of Pennsylvania

I am a first year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania in the Applied Mathematics & Computational Science group with a Benjamin Franklin Fellowship. My favorite subjects are probability and statistics.

For my undergraduate studies, I attended the University of California, Berkeley, where I double majored in Mathematics and Statistics, and minored in Computer Science. At Berkeley, I was a Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar.

Please enjoy this picture of me at a Husky Cafe in Bangkok, Thailand.

See also my CV.

Gambling

Each week during the NFL season, Ryan Brill and Nick Miller make $50 worth of NFL bets on the Bet, Sweat, and Forget Podcast
Is Ryan Brill better at sports betting than a monkey?
Moneylines and Implied Win Probability
The Expected Value Strategy in Gambling

Math

For my undergraduate senior thesis, I pursued a continuation of Learning Heuristics for Automated Reasoning through Deep Reinforcement Learning. I explored using a Graph Neural Network as a branching heuristic in Conflict Driven Clause Learning for SAT solving.
As an intern in securities valuation, I wrote about the derivation of the Black-Scholes Formula.

Projects

Creator of atme - the selfless social media
Co-Creator of the Bet, Sweat, and Forget Podcast
Co-Creator of calhat
Music Producer
Artist
Traveler

Photos

Exploring Singapore at Research in Industrial Projects for Students, Singapore:

Low-rank approximations of my face, using the SVD: