Tom Needham
I am an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at Florida State University. My research is in geometry and topology, with a focus on applications to problems in data science. My work uses tools from Riemannian, symplectic and metric geometry, topological data analysis and optimal transport.
My research is partially supported by NSF grants DMS--2107808 and DMS--2324962
For more details, please see the Research page or my Curriculum Vitae (updated May 2024).
Contact me at tneedham (at) fsu (dot) edu
News:
5/31/24: Our paper Statistical Analysis of Complex Shape Graphs, Aditi Basu Bal, Xiaoyang Guo, Tom Needham, Anuj Srivastava, was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
5/24/24: Our paper Generalized Dimension Reduction Using Semi-Relaxed Gromov-Wasserstein Distances, Ranthony A. Clark, Tom Needham,Thomas Weighill, was posted to ArXiv: Preprint.
5/10/24: Our paper Geometric Approaches to Matrix Normalization and Graph Balancing, with Clayton Shonkwiler, was posted to the ArXiv: Preprint.