I'm an assistant professor in the mathematics department at Duke University.

In Spring, 2025 I'm at the Berkeley SLMath Institute for the program on Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures.

Interests:

High-dimensional probability: random matrices, random graphs, large deviations, concentration and anti-concentration of measure, universality phenomena.

Related topics in graph theory, additive combinatorics, free probability, mathematical physics, numerical analysis and statistics.

Current teaching (spring 2025):

• No teaching (on leave)
• In Fall 2025 I'll teach Math 690-40 Introduction to Random Matrix Theory.

Background:

Previously I was a Stein Fellow in the statistics department at Stanford University, and an NSF postdoc in the math departments at Stanford and UCLA, sponsored by Amir Dembo and Jun Yin. In 2016 I received my PhD from UCLA under the advice of Terence Tao. Before that I was (and still am) a Tar Heel and a Unicorn.