Professor (Hoogleraar)
Department of Computer Science (NUMA: Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics)
Department of Mathematics (Algebra)
Address: Celestijnenlaan 200A - bus 2402 B-3001, Leuven, Belgium
Email: first_name.last_name@kuleuven.be
Profiles: ORCID, arXiv, Google Scholar, MathSciNet, LinkedIn
I am a Professor (Hoogleraar) at the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science at KU Leuven. Prior to joining KU Leuven, I was a tenured BOFZAP Professor (Hoogleraar) at Ghent University, and before that, a Reader at the University of Bristol and an EPSRC Early Career Fellow. Since 2018, I have been an EPSRC Full College Member and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
My research is currently supported by the FWO (Flanders Research Foundation) and KU Leuven iBOF grant. Previously, it was partially supported by U. Ghent's BOF professorship, the UK EPSRC, and the London Mathematical Society (LMS).
My research lies in Applied Algebraic Geometry. In particular, I am interested in developing computational tools to study problems in statistics and probability theory, theoretical computer science, mathematical optimization, and quantum physics. On the theoretical side, I work on toric degenerations, combinatorial divisor theory, matroid and determinantal varieties, tensors, conditional probabilities, graphical models, and system reliability theory.
News:
PhD positions available in my research group at KU Leuven funded by the FWO Odysseus grant and the KU Leuven iBOF grant.
Postdoc positions available (in numerical algebraic geometry) in my research group at KU Leuven.
Ongoing Reading Seminars on Polynomial Systems and Tensors: Algebra and Geometry, 2023. Please feel free to join us.
Spring 2023: I am currently teaching a master course on "Foundations of Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry" February-May 2023.
Fall 2023: I will be teaching a course on "Complex Analysis and Approximation Theory" starting September 2023.
Upcoming and Recent Organised Conferences and Workshops:
2023.09: Invitation to Algebraic Statistics and Applications, Workshop, part of the Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World, the IMSI, USA
2022.12: Toric Degenerations, Workshop, co-organised with Lara Bossinger, Alessio Corti and Megumi Harada at Banff Research Station, Canada
2022.11: Tensors in statistics, optimization and machine learning, Workshop, co-organised with Francesco Galuppi, Luca Sodomaco at IMPAN, Poland
2021.06: MEGA Conference: Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry at University of Tromsø, Norway
Past Employments:
2021.09 - 2022.07: BOFZAP Full Professor (Hoogleraar), tenured at Ghent University
2020.03 - 2021.08: BOFZAP Associate Professor (Hoofddocent), tenured at Ghent University
2019.08 - 2020.02: Reader (Associate Professor) in Pure Mathematics, University of Bristol
2017.01 - 2019.08: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Pure Mathematics, University of Bristol
2015.10 - 2017.01: Postdoctoral Researcher within the Einstein project in Bernd Sturmfels group at Technical University Berlin
2014.11 - 2015.10: IST Fellow working with Caroline Uhler at IST Austria
2013.11 - 2014.08: Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at Osnabrück University with Winfried Bruns
2012.07 - 2013.10: Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the Philipps University Marburg working with Volkmar Welker
2011.09 - 2012.06: Postdoctoral Researcher at MSRI, Berkeley, under the supervision of Hélène Barcelo
Editorial Boards:
Since 2022.05: Associate Editor, Journal of Symbolic Computation
Since 2022.01: Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (SIAGA)
Since 2020.01: Associate Editor, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
2021 - 2022: Guest Editor, Special Issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation on the occasion of MEGA 2021
Scientific Committees:
2022.02: Program committee member, The 17th MEGA Conference on Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry: MEGA 2022
2022.01: Scientific committee member, Combinatorial Commutative Algebra Summer School, Gebze Technical University, Turkey
2021.06: Committee member, The 16th MEGA Conference on Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry: MEGA 2021
2018.07: Committee member, The 30th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics: FPSAC 2018
Academic Service:
2021 - 2022: FWO project panel member in Mathematical Sciences, Belgium
Since 2018: Reviewer for proposals submitted to EPSRC (UK), ICMS (UK), and DFG (Germany), GACR (Czechia), ISTA postdoc program (Austria)