Rate My Professor Gregory Gamble

Dr. Gregory Gamble serves as Honorary Research Associate in the Mathematics and Statistics section of the School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing at the University of Western Australia. He earned his BSc in Computing (1981), BE in Electrical Engineering (1983), and MMath (1983) from the University of New South Wales, followed by a PhD in Mathematics from UWA in 1997, with a thesis on 'Elements of Prime Order in Primitive Permutation Groups' supervised by Professor Cheryl E. Praeger. Gamble's research specializations encompass permutation groups, combinatorics, designs, group theory, computer algebra, number theory, and Galois theory. He has contributed significantly to computational tools in group theory, including the development of the ACE package interfacing with GAP and involvement in the ANU p-Quotient program (ANUPQ).

Throughout his career, Gamble has held positions such as Research Associate at UWA (1998), Research Fellow at the University of Queensland (1998-2000), postdoctoral researcher in the Graduiertenkolleg at RWTH Aachen (2001), and Research Associate at Curtin University of Technology (2002-2005), where he also served as Associate Lecturer and Mathematical Programmer. At UWA, he has been involved in teaching and outreach, including lecturing for the Academy for Young Mathematicians (1995-1997), tutoring in various courses, and currently organizing the annual Blakers Mathematics Competition. He previously directed the WA State Mathematics Olympiads and WAJO. His awards include the Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award (1983) for his MMath, a UWA Studentship (1990-1993) for his PhD, and the B.H. Neumann Award (2016) for service to mathematics education. Key publications include 'Block-transitive 3-designs with affine automorphism group' (Journal of Geometry, 1994), 'Vertex-primitive groups and graphs of order twice the product of two distinct odd primes' with C.E. Praeger (Journal of Group Theory, 2000), 'Symmetric Difference-Free and Symmetric Difference-Closed Collections of Sets' (2013), and 'Computer-aided assessment in mathematical sciences' (2006, 2012). With 137 citations on ResearchGate, his work influences computational combinatorics and mathematical software. He maintains documentation tools for GAP 4.3.