CV

Education

October 2021 - December 2025
PhD Mathematics, Durham University, with Jeff Giansiracusa and Yue Ren
October 2016 - July 2020
MMath Mathematics, University of Oxford

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

2026 Best Paper Award, ICLR 2026 Workshop on Geometry-grounded Representation Learning and Generative Modeling
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
2017 (renewed 2018, 2019, 2020) Open Exhibition, Jesus College, University of Oxford

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).