👋 Hello there!

About Me:

👦 Name:
      🅰️ First Name: Hong Kiat,
      🅱️ Last Name: Tan,
      🆎 Listed Name: Hong Kiat Tan.
      🍵 “Drinks/US” Name: Max.
      👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Pronouns: He/Him/His.

👨‍🎓 I’m a 5th year Ph.D. student in Mathematics at UCLA, advised by Andrea Bertozzi.
💼 I’m currently doing an internship and am away from campus for the Fall quarter.

📚 I did my undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore majoring/minoring in:
      📗 Primary Major: Applied Mathematics,
      📕 Secondary Major: Physics,
      📘 Minor: Statistics.

Research Experiences & Interests:

📊 Statistics/Machine Learning:

• Causal Machine Learning, Time-Series Models, and Mathematical Statistics.
• LLMs and Multi-agent systems.

Differential Topology:

• Genericity, Transversality, and Applications.

♾️ Partial Differential Equations (PDEs):

• PDEs on Graphs: Modelling, Optimizing, and Simulating Continuum Traffic Flow Networks.
• Systems of Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: Mathematical & Numerical Analysis.

✉️ I am always happy to discuss more on projects/publicatons that I have worked on. If you have any questions with regards to any of my publications, feel free to contact me via my email below!

CV:

📃 You can access my resume/CV here. (Updated Oct 2025.)

I’m currently working as a Quantitative Research Intern at WorldQuant.

I’ve worked as a Data Scientist Intern at Amazon this summer (2025) at Search Data Science and Economics.

✉️ I am currently looking for:

• Summer internship for 2026, and/or
• Full Time Job starting Dec 2026.
  

Feel free to contact me via my email below!

Teaching:

👨‍🏫 Currently Teaching:

• (Fall 25.) N.A.

🧑‍💻 Teaching Experiences:

• You can access them here.

Contact Me:

📩 maxtanhk@math.ucla.edu
🏢 MS6161