Alexander S Wein (Preferred)
Alexander S. Wein
Alex Wein
Alexander S Wein
Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of California, Davis
Joined
January 2019
Names
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Emails
****@cims.nyu.edu (Confirmed)
****@ucdavis.edu (Confirmed)
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Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
Mathematics, University of California, Davis (ucdavis.edu)
2022 – Present
Postdoc
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)
2022 – 2022
Postdoc
Simons Institute, University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
2021 – 2021
Postdoc
Mathematics, NYU, New York University (cims.nyu.edu)
2018 – 2021
PhD student
Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
2013 – 2018
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Family
Nicole Wein
Present
Coauthor
Ansh Nagda
2025 – Present
Postdoc Advisee
Chris Jones
2025 – Present
Coauthor
Alan Buckser
2025 – Present
Coauthor
Dana Yang
2021 – 2025
Coauthor
Jay Mardia
2021 – 2024
Coauthor
Dmitriy Kunisky
2019 – 2024
Coauthor
Abhishek Dhawan
2023 – 2023
Coauthor
Amin Coja-Oghlan
2022 – 2022
Coauthor
Oliver Gebhard
2022 – 2022
Coauthor
Prayaag Venkat
2021 – 2022
Postdoc Advisor
Afonso Bandeira
2018 – 2021
Expertise
computational complexity
, statistical-computational gaps
Present
probability
, statistics
, high-dimensional
Present
tensor methods
, tensor decomposition
Present
low-degree polynomials
, computational hardness
Present
random matrix theory
, spectral methods
Present
statistical physics
, phase transitions
Present