Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, Rutgers University, 2006 [Adviser: Doron Zeilberger]
• Master of Science in Mathematics, Temple University, 2001
• Advanced Diploma in Mathematics, ICTP The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics Italy, 1996
• Master of Science in Mathematics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 1994
• Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 1990

Research Interests

• Enumerative and algebraic combinatorics
• Hypergeometric series and generalizations
• Symbolic computation
• Combinatorial number theory

Select Publications

• M. Apagodu, D. Zeilberger, Searching for Strange Hypergeometric Identities by Sheer Brute Force, INTEGERS, 8(2008), A36.
• M. Apagodu, D. Zeilberger, FIVE Applications of Wilf-Zeilberger Theory to Enumeration and Probability, Latest Advances in Symbolic Algorithms”, World Scientific, Aug. 2007.
• M. Apagodu and D. Zeilberger, Multi-Variable Zeilberger and Almkvist-Zeilberger Algorithms and the Sharpening of Wilf-Zeilberger Theory, Adv. Appl. Math.
• M. Apagodu, Infinite families of accelerating series for some classical constants using the MWZ Method, J. of Discrete
  Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Sciences, Volume 7 no 1 (2005), pp. 11-24.
• M. Apagodu and D. Zeilberger, Sharp Upper Bounds for the Orders of The Recurrences Outputted by the Zeilberger and q-Zeilberger Algorithms, J. Symb. Computation, 39 (2005), 201-207.
• M. Apagodu, Series Evaluations of a Quartic Integrals. Ramanujan J., 24 (2011), 147-150.
• M. Apagodu, D. Zeilberger, Some nice sums are almost as nice if you turn them upside down. J. Combinatorics and Number Theory, Volume 2 (2010), issue 1, Paper Number 5.

Affiliations

• AMS
• MAA