I will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College from 2026-2039.
Prior to arriving at Haverford, I was...
an Instructor of Mathematics at Brandeis University (2023-2026).
a Zuckerman Postdoctoral Fellow working with Michah Sageev in the Geometry and Topology Research Group at the Technion. I received my PhD in 2020 from Temple University under the supervision of David Futer. Here is my CV (updated 24 July 2025).
Email: thomas.ng.math (at) gmail (dot) com
My research interests lie in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology.
I think about the interplay between combinatorial and dynamical behavior of group actions such as uniform exponential growth with the algebraic properties like presence of free subgroups and residual finiteness. I mostly work with groups with one of several notions of nonpositive curvature including: Gromov hyperbolicity CAT(0), relative hyperbolicity, acylindrical hyperbolicity, hierarchical hyperbolicity.
