Education
- October 2021 - December 2025
PhD Mathematics, Durham University, with Jeff Giansiracusa and Yue Ren
- October 2016 - July 2020
MMath Mathematics, University of Oxford
Experience
- September 2026 -
Guest Scientist, AITHYRA Research Institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria
- January 2026 -
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
- October 2025 - December 2025
Visiting Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
- March 2025 - June 2025
Visiting Research Scientist, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Medical University of Vienna
- May 2021 - September 2021
Machine Learning Researcher, Hylomorph Solutions
- October 2020 - May 2021
Project Manager, Whistlejacket London
Awards
- 2026 Best Paper Award, ICLR 2026 Workshop on Geometry-grounded Representation Learning and Generative Modeling
- 2026 Winton PhD Thesis Prize
- 2024 Doctoral Research Excellence Award, Durham University
- 2024 SIAM Student Award for Best Talk, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium
- 2021-2025 EPSRC Doctoral Scholarship, Durham University
- 2020 Academic Prize for Final Honours School, Jesus College, University of Oxford
- 2018 R Aled Davies and Junior Vaughan Prizes in Mathematics, Jesus College, University of Oxford
Student Supervision
- Manuel Lecha, PhD Machine Learning, AITHYRA (cosupervised with Michael Bronstein).
- Ayush Sambher, Using Discrete and Diffusion Geometry for Data Analysis. MSc Statistics, Imperial College London (cosupervised with Anthea Monod and Emil Saucan).
- Haoran Zhang, Diffusion Geometry-Based Multi-Manifold Spectral Clustering. MSc Statistics, Imperial College London (cosupervised with Anthea Monod and Emil Saucan).
- Yichen Liu, Statistically Assessing Node-Level Ricci Curvature Proxies Via Scalar Curvature. MSc Statistics, Imperial College London (cosupervised with Anthea Monod and Emil Saucan).