Tyler A. Clark

Tyler A. Clark

he/him

UMD affiliated researcher leveraging statistical inference and machine learning into outcome-oriented public policy and business solutions.

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honors

Sophomore Julia Wells Bower Prize

Honors, Connecticut College, Department of Mathematics, 2017

Given to a Sophomore for distinction in mathematics. Offered by an anonymous donor in honor of Julia Wells Bower, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics.

Junior Julia Wells Bower Prize

Honors, Connecticut College, Department of Mathematics, 2018

Given to a Junior for distinction in mathematics. Offered by an anonymous donor in honor of Julia Wells Bower, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics.

Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Undergraduate Honor Society Inductee

Honors, Connecticut College, Department of Mathematics, 2019

Pi Mu Epsilon is dedicated to the promotion of mathematics and recognition of students who successfully pursue mathematical understanding. To promote mathematics, the National Pi Mu Epsilon Council co-sponsors an annual conference in conjunction with the Mathematical Association of America.

Jay Levin ‘73 Award

Honors, Connecticut College, Student Government Association, 2019

The Jay Levin ’73 Award is named after an alumnus and a trustee who was the first person to serve two years in a row as President of SGA. This award is voted on by House Senators and Class Presidents and given to a member of the Student Government Association Executive Board, excluding the President, in recognition for exemplary performance throughout the year. The recipient of this award has demonstrated service to the College through outstanding effort in his/her position on the Board.

Dean’s Fellowship

Honors, University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics, 2022

The Graduate School’s Dean’s Fellowships are offered by graduate programs in order to create greater flexibility in creating overall support packages for students. Graduate School Dean’s Fellowships may be used as recruitment tools for prospective students or as awards for currently enrolled students. Each year, the Graduate School allocates a certain number of Dean’s Fellowships to colleges who then allocate the fellowships to programs. Programs are then responsible for recruiting and retaining outstanding students.

Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Honor Society Inductee

Honors, University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics, 2024

Phi Kappa Phi is an honor society established in 1897 to recognize and encourage superior graduate scholarship without restriction as to area of study, and to promote the “unity and democracy of education”

portfolio

publications

Modeling Terrorist Attack Cycles as a Stochastic Process: Analyzing Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Incidents

Published in Journal of Applied Security Research, 2020

To further the research agenda on chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) attacks, we present a novel methodology for modeling a CBRN terrorist attack cycle as a stochastic process.

Recommended citation: Tyler A. Clark & Thomas R. Guarrieri (2021) Modeling Terrorist Attack Cycles as a Stochastic Process: Analyzing Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Incidents, Journal of Applied Security Research, 16:3, 281-306, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19361610.2020.1761743

A semi-stochastic algorithm approach to generating CBRNE terrorist attack plot scenarios

Published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2023

We introduce the Automated Adversary Template Generation (AATG) process to generate synthetic terrorist incidents that are realistic. The AATG process uses semi-stochastic sampling to simulate terrorist adversary behaviours and activities and produce thousands of CBRNE terrorist attack scenarios.

Recommended citation: Tyler Clark, Ayushi Saxena, Thomas Guarrieri & Steve Sin (2024) A semi-stochastic algorithm approach to generating CBRNE terrorist attack plot scenarios, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 19:2, 266-283, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2228536

talks

teaching

Calculus III

Undergraduate Course, University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics, 2022

Served as a teaching assistant leading two discussion sections of thirty undergraduate students, twice per a week. Taught introduction to multivariable calculus, including vectors and vector-valued functions, partial derivatives and applications of partial derivatives (such as tangent planes and Lagrange multipliers), multiple integrals, volume, surface area, and the classical theorems of Green, Stokes and Gauss.

Applied Statisticts & Probability I

Undergraduate Course, University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics, 2023

Served as a teaching assistant leading three discussion sections of thirty undergraduate students, once per week. Topics included an introduction random variables, standard distributions, moments, law of large numbers and central limit theorem. Sampling methods, estimation of parameters, testing of hypotheses.

Calculus II

Undergraduate Course, University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics, 2023

Served as a teaching assistant leading two discussion sections of thirty undergraduate students, twice per a week. Taught techniques of integration, improper integrals, applications of integration (such as volumes, work, arc length, moments), inverse functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, sequences and series.

Linear Algebra

Undergraduate Course, University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics, 2024

Served as a teaching assistant leading two discussion sections of thirty undergraduate students, twice per a week. Taught basic concepts of linear algebra: vector spaces, applications to line and plane geometry, linear equations and matrices, similar matrices, linear transformations, eigenvalues, determinants and quadratic forms.