Richard Hoshino
Tutor
Department of Mathematics
Quest University
Canada
Biography
Richard Hoshino joined the Quest family in February 2013, as the faculty’s third mathematics tutor. Prior to his arrival at Quest, Richard was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo (2010-2012), and was a mathematician with the Government of Canada (2006-2010), leading the mathematics and data exploration section at the Canada Border Services Agency. He completed his PhD at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has published over 25 research papers across numerous fields, including graph theory, marine container risk-scoring, biometric identification, and sports tournament scheduling. He has consulted for a billion-dollar professional baseball league, as well as three Canadian TV game shows (Qubit, Splatalot, Spin-Off), and has presented papers at the world’s most prestigious AI conference in each of the past four years.
Research Interest
Graph theory