Sommer Gentry
Associate Professor, Mathematics
U.S. Naval Academy
Phone: 410-293-6724
Email: gentry@usna.edu
Curriculum Vitae (or in pdf)
Click the kidney for a recent talk I have given about my research, or see
http://www.OptimizedMatch.com
Kidney
Paired Donation Flash Puzzles! These puzzles (easier and harder), by Scott Kim, were featured in Discover Magazine and at
About
me
I graduated from Stanford
University in 1998 with a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science and a
M.S. in Operations Research. I spent a
year at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories before completing a Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 2005. I am an Associate Professor in
the mathematics department at the U.S. Naval Academy and also affiliated with
the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
My research in optimization in
kidney transplantation has been profiled in Science and TIME magazine, and I
was a guest on the Diane Rehm show in 2005.
A one-hour Discovery channel
show featured the work of myself
and the transplant team at Johns Hopkins in arranging a three-way paired
donation, and our research also played a part in an episode of the mathematical
detective show Numb3rs. I have been an
invited speaker at
In 2009 the Mathematical
Association of America selected me for a national teaching award, the Henry L. Alder award, which
recognizes distinguished teaching by a beginning college or university
mathematics faculty member. I received
an American Society of Transplant Surgeons Top Ten Abstracts award for my
submission to the 2009 ASTS Winter Symposium. As a graduate student, I
received a Department of Energy Computational Science
Graduate Fellowship (CSGF) and a Best Student Paper award at the 2003 IEEE
Systems, Man, Cybernetics Conference. I
won a related CSGF essay contest for technical writing that effectively
communicates computational science to a lay audience. The essay appeared in the 2007 Compose
publication.
Media Mentions
TIME Magazine, Innovators, The Kidney
Connection 9/12/05 (PDF)
Reader's Digest feature 3/06 (PDF)
The
Diane Rehm Show on National Public Radio 3/18/05 (RealPlayer)
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Alumni Profile, 2008 (Web)
Stanford
University School of Engineering Alumni Profile, September 06 (Web)
SIAM News, Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics December 2008 (Web)
American Mathematical Society Mathematical
Moments poster and podcast (PDF)
Science
News, Math Trek, August 2008 (Web)
Technology
Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation Technology 3/06 (Web)
CBS
TV Interview 1/27/06 (WMV)
Baltimore
Sun 1/27/06 (PDF)
Science
3/12/04 (PDF)
Technology
Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation Technology 6/04 (PDF)
MIT Tech Talk
6/01/05 (PDF)
5678 dance
magazine Spring 2004 (PDF)
TV News story at ScienCentral
3/23/04 (Quicktime)
Radio interview
on KMOX News 5/12/04 (MP3)
MIT News Office
press release (Web)
MIT Tech
Talk 2/4/04 (PDF)
Boston Globe
3/16/04 (PDF)
DEIXIS
2004-2005 CSGF Annual Report
SIAM News, Society for
Industrial and Applied Mathematics December 2004 (Web)
Publications
Material contained herein is made available for the purpose of peer review and discussion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Navy or the Department of Defense.
D. Segev, S.
Gentry. Kidneys for sale: Whose
attitudes matter? American Journal of Transplantation, 10(5): 1113-4, 2010.
S. Gentry, R.A. Montgomery, B.
Swihart, and D.Segev. The roles of
dominos and nonsimultaneous chains in kidney paired donation. American
Journal of Transplantation, 9(6): 1330-1336, May 2009.
S. Gentry, T. S.
Michael, and D. Segev. Maximum matchings in graphs for allocating kidney paired donation. In
revision.
S. Gentry, D.
Segev, and R.A. Montgomery. Working
together towards a national kidney paired donation program. Letter, American
Journal of Transplantation 8(2): 464, February 2008.
D. Segev, L. Kucirka, S. Gentry, R.A. Montgomery. Utilization and outcomes of kidney paired
donation in the
D. Segev, S. Gentry, R.A. Montgomery. Response to 'Waiting time and use of living
donors'. Letter, American Journal of Transplantation 8(3): 722, March 2008.
S. Gentry, D.
Segev, M. Simmerling, and R.A. Montgomery.
Expanding kidney paired donation through participation by compatible
pairs. American Journal of Transplantation, 7(10): 2361-2370, October 2007.
D. Segev, S. Gentry, R.A. Montgomery. Association between waiting times for kidney
transplantation and rates of live donation.
American Journal of
Transplantation, 7(10): 2406-2413, October
2007.
S. Gentry.
Practitioner's Commentary: The outstanding kidney exchange papers. UMAP
Journal 28.2, Summer 2007.
S. Gentry. Optimization over graphs for kidney paired
donation. Chapter, Optimization in
Medicine and Biology, Gino Lim, editor. 2008.
E.S. Woodle, Y. Miao,
D. Goldfarb, D. Segev, S. Gentry, A. Waterman, M. Aeder, R.M. Lewis, R.
Shapiro. Kidney paired donation: State
of the science and practice. Invited
review article, Current Opinion in Organ
Transplantation 12(4):384-389, August 2007.
C. E. Simpkins,
R. A. Montgomery, A. M. Hawxby, J. E. Locke, S. E. Gentry, D. S. Warren, D. L.
Segev. Cold ischemia time and allograft outcomes in live donor renal
transplantation: is live donor organ transport feasible? American
Journal of Transplantation, 7(1):99-107, Jan 2007.
R.A. Montgomery,
S. Gentry, W.H. Marks, D.S. Warren, J. Hiller, J. Houp, A.A. Zachary, J.K.
Melancon, W.R. Maley, H. Rabb, C.E. Simpkins, and D. Segev. Domino paired
kidney donation: a strategy to make best use of live non-directed donation. Lancet,
vol. 268, p. 419-421, 2006.
D. Segev, S.
Gentry, and R.A. Montgomery. Relative roles for list paired exchange,
live donor paired exchange, and desensitization. American Journal of
Transplantation, 6(2): 437, Feb 2006.
D. Segev, S.
Gentry, D. Warren, B. Reeb, and R.A. Montgomery. Kidney paired donation:
Optimizing the use of live donor organs. Journal of the American
Medical Association, vol. 293, p. 1883-1890, 2005.
S. Gentry, D. Segev, and R.A. Montgomery. A comparison of populations served by kidney paired donation and list donation. American Journal of Transplantation, 2005, August, 5(8): 1914-21.
D. Segev, S. Gentry, J.K. Melancon, and R.A. Montgomery. Characterization of waiting times in a simulation of kidney paired donation. American Journal of Transplantation, 2005, October 5(10): 2448-55.
E. Hsu, S. Gentry, and J. Popovic, "Example-based control of human motion", Eurographics / ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, 2004.
S. Gentry and R. Murray-Smith,
"Haptic dancing: human performance at haptic decoding with a
vocabulary", IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics Conference, vol. 4,
pp.3432-3437, 2003.
Student Best Paper
award.
S. Gentry and
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Wall,
V. Kulkarni and S. Gentry, "Optimal Mode Changes for Highway Transportation Safety", IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics Conference, vol. 2, pp.1235-1240, 2003.
J. De Mot, V.
Kulkarni, S.Gentry,V. Gavrilets and E. Feron, "Coordinated Path Planning
for a UAV Cluster". The First AINS Symposium, UCLA,
J. De Mot, V.
Kulkarni, S.Gentry and
Distribution Results for Efficient Multi-Agent Navigation". IEEE Conference
on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, vol. 4, pp. 3776-3781, December 2002.
S. Gentry, "Partial Inverse Optimization", MIT Lab for Information and Decision Systems Report, LIDS-P-2532, December, 2001.
S. Gentry, V. Saligrama and E. Feron, "Dynamic Inverse Optimization", Proceedings of American Control Conference, Volume 6, pp. 4722-7, 2001.
S. Gentry, S. Venkatesh and E. Feron, "Identifying Constrained Receding Horizon Controllers", 2000 Allerton Conference.