I am an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCCS.

My research lies primarily in probability theory, statistical physics, and non-convex optimization. In particular, I study high-dimensional random landscapes and disordered systems, including spin glasses, random matrices, and random media. My work focuses on universal results, identifying which features of these landscapes occur in a wide variety of models.

Most of these models originated in physics, but it's since been found that same structures appear in machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, and biology. Here the geometry of a random landscape determines not only how physical dynamics and algorithms transverse it, but also aspects of the solutions they are able to find.

Before coming to Colorado, I was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Courant Institute at NYU, working with Gérard Ben Arous. Even before that, I received my Ph.D. in mathematics from Northwestern University, where I was supervised by Antonio Auffinger.

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