About Me

I am an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
My office is LGRT 1116, and I can be reached by email at annieraymond@umass.edu.
(The math.umass.edu server has been retired, so raymond@math.umass.edu does not work anymore.)

Here is my CV.

Research interests: I am interested in anything related to combinatorial optimization, extremal graph theory, applied real algebraic geometry, operations research, proof complexity and polyhedral combinatorics.

Outreach interests: I am interested in thinking of different ways of making math more diverse. I run _forall on Instagram and on www.mathisforall.com which features women and people of color in mathematics (currently on hiatus since the beginning of the pandemic, but coming back very soon!) I am also invested in university-level education for incarcerated people.

Past: I spent the spring semester of 2025 at SLMath in Berkeley as a research member in the Extremal Combinatorics program. Previously, I had also spent the fall semester of 2017 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley as a Gamelin Endowed Postdoctoral Fellow in the Geometric and Topological Combinatorics program. From 2014 to 2017, I was an Acting Assistant Professor (i.e., a postdoc) in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington working with Rekha Thomas. I completed a Ph.D. in mathematics under the supervision of Martin Grötschel at the Technische Universität Berlin. My thesis was on ''Polyhedral Methods Applied to Extremal Combinatorics Problems''. During my time in Berlin, I was also a member of the Berlin Mathematical School and of the Zuse Institute Berlin, an interdisciplinary research institute for applied mathematics and data-intensive high-performance computing. Prior to that, I was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I completed a bachelor of science in mathematics as well as a bachelor of science (!) in music. During that time, I participated in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at MIT and in two summer research programs, one funded by the NSERC and the other by the LaCIM, both in my hometown at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Funding: I am very grateful to be funded by NSF through my grant "CAREER: Graph Profiles: Complexity and Computations".