CV

Konrad Gomez-Haibach

EDUCATION

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
PhD student in the Department of Statistics
Started Fall 2025

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA
BS in Mathematics and minor in Interactive Media and Game Design
May 2025

University of Nebraska High School (UNHS), Lincoln, Nebraska
June 2021

RELATED COURSES

Graduate: Fall 2025: Applied Statistics I, Mathematical Statistics I, Epidemiology; Spring 2026: Applied Statistics II, Mathematical Statistics II, Design of Experiments

Undergraduate: Calculus I-III, Vector and Tensor Calculus, Discrete, Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations, Applied Statistics I and II, Mathematical Methods in Decision Making, Probability Theory, Modeling with ODEs,  Data Analytics in Statistical Learning, Probabilistic Methods of Operation Theory, Mathematical Optimization, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Portfolio Valuation and Risk Management, Java Programming, Introduction to Computational Problem Solving: ‘Big Data’, Data Structures (in Python), Modeling and Simulations, Algorithms, Critical Studies of Interactive Media and Games, The Game Development Process, Storytelling in games, Data Analysis for Game Development, Writing Characters, Digital Design, Writing Narrative for Interactive Media and Games, Introduction To System Dynamics Modeling, Games for Understanding Complexity

SKILLS

Programming: Java, Python, C/C++, MATLAB, Mathematica, Linux
Software: Microsoft (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), STELLA, Overleaf (LaTeX), Twine

PROJECTS

Major Qualifying Project in Sturm Group at WPI, 2024-2025

Every investor desires a cost-efficient portfolio which achieves a specific value distribution with a minimum initial investment. Dybvig proved that in discrete complete markets, the lowest cost method to realize an investment distribution follows reverse state price density (price per probability) order. While foundational results have been established for complete market systems, those in which all risks can be hedged, Bernard and Sturm extended the cost-efficient payoff calculation to incomplete markets with a 3-state model. This work generalized the Bernard and Sturm 3-state model to n-states; deriving the convexified maximin, maximin, convexified minimax, and minimax of the cost-efficient payment for the n-state system.

Gomez-Haibach, K. (2025): Toward Discrete, Incomplete Market Cost Efficiency, Mathematical Finance Project 2024/25. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Interactive Qualifying Project with Prof. Radzicki at WPI, 2023-2024

Focused on how young children can be motivated to study STEM.  To achieve this my group developed three activities, each with the goal of effectively engaging and teaching primary and secondary school students about the intersection of amateur/hobby radio with STEM. 

Gomez-Haibach, K., Ehrensperger, C., Amin, M., Kratman, A., & Malnicof, A. (2024). Ham Radio as a Gateway for STEM Education. : Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Student Work | Ham Radio as a Gateway for STEM Education | ID: 3484zn197 | Digital WPI

A Story Exploring an Intersection of Fiction and Science WPI Humanities Project   Spring 2024

I wrote a set of parallel chapters fusing This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal Al-Mohtar, and The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. Red inspires a young Carlo Rivelli to explore the meaning of time. The chapter is written as a letter in the voice of Red. Within the letter, the chronoagent inspires Rivelli to pursue the meaning of time and provide a summary of how time works. To bridge the two primary sources the chronoagent describes the Strands as a string of connections between states within the universe, each of which can be considered visually as a pair of funnels, resembling an “X.” The funnels are a representation of the probability of connections between any two states, which is the meaning of a Strand. The Braid is the collection of all possible strands.

Research in Tilley Group at WPI in Summer 2023 and Fall 2023

Used finite difference method coupled with transfer matrix method to model an electric field in a multilayered material and the material thermal response with the goal of obtaining a power response curve with diminished thermal runaway.  The project was a collaboration between Prof. Burt Tilley and Prof. V.V. Yakovlev (WPI), Dr. Brad Hoff and Dr. Zane Cohick, AFRL Kirtland, Dr. Joseph Gaone, MITRE.  My undergraduate student partner was Zachary Adams.

Research in Gomez Group at Mount Holyoke College Summers 2020-2022

Worked with a computational chemistry group to generate starting possible structures for perovskite oxides leading to 2020 paper and devising new centrality measures leading to 2023 paper.

Gomez-Haibach, KS; Gomez MA. Revised centrality measures tell a robust story of ion conduction in solids, J. Phys. Chem. B 2023, 127, 43, 9258–9266. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c03886

Patel, M; Zhong, J; Gomez-Haibach, KS; Gomez, MA; King, G. Low energy Sr2MSbO5.5 (M = Ca and Sr) structures show significant distortions near oxygen vacancies. Int J Quantum Chem. 2020; 120:e26356. https://doi.org/10.1002/qua.26356.

Human vs Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Gamers Helping Scientists, Personal Project 2018 – 2019

Camero, K; Galvis, S; Mayes, K, What big ideas will shape U.S. science over the next decade? Here are some contenders Science AAAS 2019 

Designed the concept of an open world game in which gamers learn science while aiding scientists as human intelligence in a simulation normally benefitting from artificial intelligence.

 Earned a placement in the top 14 ideas in the NSF 2026 Idea Machine competition.

AWARDS/HONORS

WPI Tuition Exchange Scholarship (2021- 2025)
NSF 2026 Idea Machine Top 14 Blue Ribbon Prize (2019)

PUBLICATIONS

https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5062-9665