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Alan Tong (he/him)

me

Transportation planner at the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization

PhD student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

atalantong@gmail.com

Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization

707 Richards Street, Suite 200

Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

Current Projects

My current projects are

  • Validating federally mandated performance measures for the OahuMPO.
  • My dissertation on switched systems and singular extremals.
  • Establishing HCREAM as a non-profit entity that benefits Hawai'i.

Research

My mathematics specialty is in optimal control, with a focus on hybrid systems. I am currently working with Professor Monique Chyba to demonstrate a technique for optimal control on a hybrid system with reset map the identity.

Teaching

Time Description
Fall 2022 TA for MATH100, Survey of Mathematics
Spring 2023 TA for MATH140, Trigonometry and Pre-Calculus
Summer 2023 Instructor for MATH241, Calculus 1
Fall 2025 TA for MATH100, Survey of Mathematics

If it isn't apparent, teaching is not my primary focus---but I do love teaching!