Anthea Monod
I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Biomathematics at the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London.
My research uses theory from pure mathematics (algebraic geometry and algebraic topology) to develop computational and statistical methods for data that have complex structures, or that live in complex spaces. I have applied my research to real data to solve problems in mathematical and computational biology.
I am also interested in using pure mathematics (algebraic topology and algebraic geometry) to advance our understanding of deep learning and modern AI technology. My research in this direction is supported by a £10M EPSRC Mathematical and Computational Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Hub, which I am honored to serve as a co-deputy director alongside Jeff Giansiracusa and Michael Bronstein (Hub director).
Research Interests:
Applied and Computational Topology including Topological Data Analysis
Applied Algebraic Geometry including Algebraic Statistics
Geometric Statistics and Machine Learning
Mathematical Biology
Contact: a [dot] monod [at] imperial [dot] ac [dot] uk
Office: Roderic Hill 318
📣 My research team and I won a £10M EPSRC grant to establish an AI Hub to study the mathematical and computational foundations of AI using geometry, topology, and algebra! The Director of our Hub is Prof. Michael Bronstein at Oxford Computer Science; I am the Hub's Co-Deputy Director and the Imperial PI. You can read the press release about it here.
News & Upcoming Stuff
I am organizing the next London–Oxford TDA Seminar at Imperial, which will take place on 11 November 2024!
Our paper with Charlie Tan, Inés García-Redondo, Qiquan Wang, and Michael Bronstein on fractal dimension, persistent homology dimension, and generalization got accepted to NeurIPS 2024!
My term as a UKRI–EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Forum member has been extended to 2026. I am honored to continue to serve the British mathematical community by voicing the needs of early career mathematicians in the UK to the EPSRC as well as to advocate for the EPSRC within the UK mathematical landscape.
I have been promoted to Senior Lecturer (associate professor) as of 1 September 2024.
Our paper using signed distance persistent homology to quantify bone marrow morphology in leukaemia and model disease progression is up on the arXiv! Joint work with Qiquan Wang, Anna Song, Antoniana Batsivari, and Dominique Bonnet.
I have been invited to speak at the 2025 Royal Society Frontiers of Science Meeting!
My PhD student Inés García-Redondo won the 2nd place prize for her poster "On the Limitations of Fractal Dimension as a Measure of Generalization" at this year's Imperial Mathematics PhD Symposium!
Our paper with Qiquan Wang, Inés García-Redondo, Pierre Faugère and Gregory Henselman-Petrusek has been accepted to the Symposium on Geometry Processing 2024!
I am the new Deputy Speaker on Foundations of AI for the Artificial Intelligence Network of Excellence.
I was featured in a news article at Women at Imperial Week.
I have been awarded Fellowship of Advance HE! I am pleased to have this formal certification that validates my commitment to professionalism in teaching and my dedication to investing my best efforts to provide all of my students with the best education that I am able to offer.