Alec Dektor is a quadruple UC Santa Cruz alumnus (B.A. math; M.A. math; M.S. scientific computing and applied mathematics; Ph.D. applied mathematics). During his time at Baskin Engineering, he published six papers—four as first author. His area of research focuses on developing new computational methods to approximate high-dimensional functions and high-dimensional partial differential equations. Alec begins a two-year postdoc appointment with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory this summer.