Graham Hawkes is the founder and content and tech lead at Project Intuition. He received a PhD in mathematics from the University of California in Davis in 2019. After graduating he moved to Germany to become a post-doctorate researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. Afterwards he took a temporary position at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, before returning to the United States. He currently works for Purdue Global University, an online university specializing in using technology to improve access to higher education for working adults, military personel and others with busy schedules and/or remote locations.

He has taught courses in linear algebra, number theory, combinatorics, and statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels both in person and online. He is published in many of the top journals in his research field of combinatorics including Algebraic Combinatorics, Journal of Combinatorial Theory--Series A (now Combinatorial Theory), Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Contributions to Discrete Math, and Australasian Journal of Combinatorics.

Throughout his academic career he has heavily relied on mathematical programming to analyze data associated to open problems in combinatorics. By looking for patterns in this data he is able to gain insight into the mathematical structures underlying the problems he works on. In fact, his most recent paper actually utilizes a computer assisted proof! If he isn't writing javaScript code for Project Intuition or teaching courses for Purdue Global he is probably using Python to run data analyses on historical stock market data and tinkering with his automated trading bot.  He is currently a government software engineer/mathematician.

He is driven by a passion for mathematics and a desire to share his appreciation for the subject with creative and inspiring methods.