👋 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 4th year Ph.D. student in Mathematics at UCLA, advised by Andrea Bertozzi.

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

Research Interests:

♾️ Partial Differential Equations (PDEs):

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

📊 Statistics and Machine Learning.

Causal Machine Learning & Statistics.

✉️ 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 May 2025.)

I’m excited to share that I’ll be working as a Data Scientist Intern at Amazon this summer (2025)!

✉️ I am currently looking:

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

Feel free to contact me via my email below!

Teaching:

👨‍🏫 Currently Teaching:

(Summer 25.) N.A.

🧑‍💻 Teaching Experiences:

You can access them here.

Contact Me:

📩 maxtanhk@math.ucla.edu
🏢 MS6161