I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics in the University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.
My research lies at the intersection of mathematical statistics, machine learning, combinatorics, multilinear algebra, and applied algebraic geometry. I particularly enjoy discovering mathematical structure which is inherently responsible for the successful solution to a statistical problem. Most recently I have been working on the theory of linear causal models, structured tensor decompositions, shape-constrained density estimation, and super-resolution imaging.
Here is a link to my CV.
Prior to joining UBC I was priviliged to spend three years as a Statistics Instructor and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT.
In the spring of 2016 I received my PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Bernd Sturmfels. Here is a link to my thesis, which won the Bernard Friedman Memorial prize in applied mathematics.
In 2011 I received my BS with Honors in mathematics and a minor in computer science from Stanford University.