Nathan Axvig was born in Rugby, North Dakota, in 1983. He received a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of North Dakota in 2005 and went on to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in mathematics, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2007 and 2010, respectively.

In 2010 Dr. Axvig became a faculty member at Virginia Military Institute, where he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics for three years. In 2013 he joined the Department of Mathematics at ×ö°®ÊÓƵ in Moorhead, Minnesota. Dr. Axvig’s research interests include coding theory, operations research, and industrial mathematics.

Dr. Axvig is keenly interested in establishing partnerships with businesses, non-profit organizations, and governments with the joint goals of providing his clients with useful solutions as well as giving his students valuable experience working on *real* real-world problems. To this end, Dr. Axvig has supervised a number of undergraduate consulting projects and is always looking for more.