Axel Ivan Saenz Rodriguez

Oregon State University, Assistant Professor, Sep 2021 - present. 

University of Warwick, Research Fellow, Jan 2020 - Jul 2021.

Tulane University, Postdoctoral Researcher, Jul 2019 - Dec 2019.

University of Virginia, Mary Ann Pitts Postdoctoral Fellow, Aug 2016 - Jun 2019. 

UC Davis, Mathematics, PhD 2016.

Columbia University, Applied Math 2011.

Contact: saenzroa [at] oregonstate [dot] edu

CV (Updated: May 2024)

• Pivot Fellowship from Simons Foundation (link), Jan 2025 - Dec 2025

  • State of the art large scale computations for 2D quantum spin system connecting theory, simulation, and experiments.

• Organizer, AIM Workshop (link), March 2025

  • All roads to the KPZ universality class

  • More infor: link 

• Organizer, AIM SQuaRE (link), October 2024

  • KPZ fixed point beyond homogeneous models.

• Research Advancement Academy Fellow at Oregon State University (link), AY 2024-25.

  • Professional development to support faculty fellows successfully lead large transdisciplinary proposals & funded research programs.

• co-PI, SciRIS stage 2 grant (link), AY 2023-24

  • Polariton-controlled spin waves in quantum magnets for next-generation spintronics

• Co-organizer, Oregon Spintronics Forum, (link).

• Co-organizer, Math For All in Corvallis, annually first Saturday of April, (link). 

  • A conference on math and inclusivity.

• Scientific Committee, Pacific Northwest Probability Seminar, annually around mid-late October, (link).

  • A regional probability conference bringing together researchers form British Columbia (Canada), Washington, and Oregon. 

• Organizer, Pacific Northwest Integrable Probability conference, Oregon State University, Nov 4 - 5, 2022. (link)

  • Video presentations on integrable probability.

• Presenter, Juntos Day at OSU, bi-annually around May, (click here).

  • Outreach for Latino/a middle school students with hands-on STEM presentations. 

See the following blogs on my current research projects:

• Simulations of quantum spin chains via Bethe Ansatz exact formulas. (link)

• Image segmentation via quantum random walks. (link)

• Math oriented blog (link).