Three new Junior Fellows will join the ETH-ITS
The Institute is pleased to welcome three new Junior Fellows this September.
Pierrick Bousseau
Pierrick Bousseau received his PhD in mathematics from Imperial College London in August 2018 under the supervision of Richard Thomas. He is interested in parts of algebraic geometry having close interactions with theoretical physics. He proved a result connecting tropical and complex curve countings, with application to a new construction of deformation quantizations in the context of mirror symmetry.
Nina Holden
Nina Holden received her PhD in mathematics from MIT in June 2018 under the supervision of Scott Sheffield. She does research in probability theory. More specifically, her dissertation was about Schramm-Loewner evolutions, Liouville quantum gravity, and random planar maps. She has also done work on the trace reconstruction problem, allocations and matchings, the Schelling model, and graph limits.
Fanny Yang
Fanny Yang defended her PhD thesis in 2018 at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California, Berkeley. She analyzes algorithms for problems in the intersection between statistics and optimization. She is interested in applications to biomedical problems and machine learning. She also worked as an intern in the Deep Learning group at Amazon Web Services.