Brian Chao  

Email: b c 4 9 2  @  c o r n e l l  .  e d u

Hello! I am a 5th year math PhD student at Cornell, advised by Laurent Saloff-Coste. I am broadly interested in the interplay between probability, analysis, and geometry. I did my undergraduate studies at UC San Diego. I am grateful to acknowledge support by a NSF Graduate Fellowship.

My current research interests revolve around the following topics:

-Functional inequalities for Markov semigroups (e.g. diffusions on Riemannian manifolds/Markov chains)

-Dirichlet forms, Markov processes, and heat kernel estimates on metric measure spaces

-Spectral geometry and its relationship with the above 

   
Please feel free to reach out if we may share common interests!