• My work is supported by NSF grants DMS 1358648 (1200898, 2012-2016), DMS 1600782 (2016-2019), DMS 1752345 (CAREER, 2018-2024), Simons Foundation fellowship (2023-2024), Simons Foundation travel grant (2025-2030).

  • Before coming to OSU I was trained at UPenn ('10-'12) as a postdoc. I also spent some time at Yale (as a research associate, '12-'13) and at IAS (as a von Neumann fellow, '15-'16).

  • I finished my Ph.D. at Rutgers in 2010 under the guidance by prof. Van Vu; cv.

    Some selected papers (full list)

    Subset sums in Fp (with Endre Szemeredi and Van Vu, Acta Arithmetica, 131 (2008), 303-316).
    Optimal inverse Littlewood-Offord theorems (with Van Vu, Advances in Mathematics, Vol. 226 6 (2011), 5298-5319).
    Inverse Littlewood-Offord problems and the singularity of random symmetric matrices (Duke Mathematics Journal Vol. 161, 4 (2012), 545-586).
    Random doubly stochastic matrices: the circular law (Annals of Probability (2014), Vol. 42, No. 3, 1161-1196).
    Random matrices: law of the determinant (with Van Vu, Annals of Probability (2014), Vol. 42, No. 1, 146-167).
    The elliptic law (with Sean O'Rourke, International Mathematics Research Notices (2015), Vol. 2015, 7620-7689).
    Random matrices: tail bounds for gaps between eigenvalues (with Terence Tao and Van Vu, Probability Theory and Related Fields, (2017), Vol. 167, 3, 777-816).
    Random matrices: overcrowding estimates for the spectrum (Journal of Functional Analysis, (2018) Volume 275, Issue 8, 2197-2224).
    Random trigonometric polynomials: universality and non-universality of the variance for the number of real roots (with Yen Do and Oanh Nguyen, Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincare, Vol. 58, No. 3 (2022), 1460-1504).
    Random integral matrices: universality of surjectivity and the cokernel (with Melanie Matchett Wood, Inventiones Mathematicae, 228 (2022), no. 1, 1-76).
    Universality of Poisson limits for moduli of roots of Kac polynomials (with Nicholas Cook, Oren Yakir, and Ofer Zeitouni, International Mathematics Research Notices, 2023, no. 8).
    Exponential concentration for the number of roots of random trigonometric polynomials (with Ofer Zeitouni, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 60(2): 1077-1089, 2024).
    Universality for cokernels of random matrix products (with Roger Van Peski, Advances in Mathematics, Volume 438, February 2024, 109451).
    Local and global universality of random matrix cokernels (with Melanie Matchett Wood, Mathematische Annalen 391 (4), 5117-5210, 2025).
    Anti-concentration of inhommogeneous random walks in non-abelian groups (preprint).