Christopher Ormerod
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Experience

Education

  • University of Sydney: Bachelor of Advanced Science, Pure Mathematics, 2000–2003
  • University of Sydney: Doctor of Philosophy, Applied Mathematics, 2004–2008

Positions

2026–present Executive Director of Natural Language Measurement, College Board

2020–2026 Principal Data Scientist, Cambium Assessment

2017–2020 Principal Mathematician, American Institutes for Research

2016–2017 Assistant Professor, The University of Maine

2013–2016 Olga-Tausky-Todd Instructor, Caltech

2010–2013 Lecturer and Research Fellow, La Trobe University

2008–2010 Postdoctoral Researcher, Melbourne University

Awards and Honors

  • National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) — Service Award, 2026
  • Co-chair of the NCME SIGIMIE on Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education, 2023
  • Automated Scoring Challenge for The Nation’s Report Card — Grand Prize Winner, 2021
  • American Institutes for Research — Assessment’s MVP, 2018
  • ARC Discovery Project — Discrete Integrable Systems — Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, 2011–2013
  • ARC Discovery Project — The Sakai scheme – Askey table correspondence, analogues of isomonodromy and determinantal point processes, 2009–2011
  • Grant for AMSI Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, 2012
  • Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge UK, Research Scholar, 2009

Teaching

  • Caltech, 2015, Combinatorial Analysis
  • Caltech, 2014, Galois Theory and Representation Theory
  • Caltech, 2014, Combinatorial Analysis
  • Caltech, 2013, q-special functions with applications to integrable systems
  • Caltech, 2013, Galois Theory and Representation Theory
  • La Trobe University, 2010, Calculus and Linear Algebra
  • La Trobe University, 2010–2012, Scientific Computing
  • La Trobe University, 2012, Discrete Integrable Systems
  • Sydney University, School of Physics, 2001–2002, Scientific Computing/Scientific Visualization
  • Sydney University, School of Physics, 2003–2007, Computational Science in C
  • Sydney University, School of Mathematics, 2004–2007, Linear Algebra, Calculus, ODEs
  • University of New South Wales, Department of Mathematics, 2007, Calculus
  • La Trobe University, Department of Mathematics, 2010, Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra