Riley holds a PhD in Computing and Mathematical Sciences from Caltech. His thesis work on convex relaxation methods for nonconvex optimization received Caltech's 2021 Amori Doctoral Prize. He is currently a postdoc at UC Berkeley, where he leads the development of BLAS- and LAPACK-like libraries for randomized numerical linear algebra. He started contributing to CVXPY in 2018 and now serves as one of CVXPY's four project maintainers.