Emily Lopez

I am a first year doctoral student at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Mathematics PhD Program. My research is graciously supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Broadly, I am interested in the interplay between analysis, probability, and statistics in developing more efficient machine learning and scientific computing algorithms.

I became fascinated in this area through my undergraduate research in optimal transport supervised by Professor Katy Craig while at the University of California Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies. Before coming to UMN, I studied causal inference with network interference under the guidance of Cornell ORIE Professor Christina Lee Yu.

Outside of math, I enjoy baking, playing board games with friends, and have recently picked up yoga. If you ever want to chat, whether it be math related or a matter of exchanging cookie recipes, please reach out to my email lope0646@umn.edu.