CV

Research & professional positions

• Postdoctoral Researcher
  2023-present, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany
  In the Nonlinear Algebra group of Bernd Sturmfels

• Postdoctoral Researcher
  2022-2023, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany
  In the groups of Raffaella Mulas and Jürgen Jost

• Data Science Consultant
  2021, London, UK
  Innerworks

• Research Assistant
  2017-2018, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
  In the Network Architectures and Services group of Piet Van Mieghem

• Research Intern
  2016, VU Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands
  In the Clinical Neurophysiology group with Kees Stam and Ilse Van Straaten

Education

• PhD in Applied Mathematics
  2018-2022, University of Oxford, United Kingdom & the Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
  Thesis title "Graph geometry from effective resistances", supervised by  Renaud Lambiotte

• MSc in Electrical Engineering
  2015-2017, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
  Thesis title "Structure and dynamics of complex networks", supervised by Piet Van Mieghem

• Erasmus exchange year (program in Electrical Engineering)
  2014-2015, KTH Stockholm, Sweden

• BSc in Electrical Engineering & Technology of living systems
  2011-2014, KU Leuven, Belgium

Teaching & Supervision

• B8.5 Graph Theory
  Teaching assistant, Fall 2019, Oxford

• B6.3 Integer Programming
  Teaching assistant, Fall 2019, Oxford

• C5.4 Networks
  Teaching assistant, Spring 2019, Oxford

• B8.4 Information Theory
  Teaching assistant, Fall 2018, Oxford

• Alice Nanyanzi (now at AIMS, South Africa)
  Research project with Mfano Africa-Oxford, Summer 2021

• Marc Homs-Dones (now PhD at Warwick, UK)
  Oxford MSc thesis, 2020

• Ben Chugg (now PhD at Carnegie Mellon, US)
  Oxford MSc thesis, 2019

Selected Talks & Conferences

• January 2024 - JMM Conference, San Francisco: online invited minisymposium talk "Graphs with nonnegative resistance curvature"

• October 2023 - Applied Math Seminar, UCLouvain: seminar talk "Tropical Toric Maximum Likelihood Estimation"

• October 2023 - NUMA Seminar, KULeuven: seminar talk "Tropical Toric Maximum Likelihood Estimation"

• September 2023 - Nonlinear Algebra Seminar, MPI MiS: seminar talk "Uniform density in matroids, matrices and graphs"

• August 2023 - Quantum Information Seminar, RU Bochum: seminar talk "Uniform density in matroids, matrices and graphs"

• July 2023 - SIAM AG Conference, Eindhoven: contributed talk "Uniform denisty in matroids, matrices and graphs"

• June 2023 - ILAS2023 Conference, Madrid: invited minisymposium talk "Capacity on graphs: submodularity and simplex geometry"

• May 2023 - Jornadas VI Alama Workshop, Barcelona: invited talk "Matrix Theory for Laplacian and effective resistance matrices"

• April 2023 - WINQ Seminar & Applied CATS seminar KTH, Stockholm: seminar talk "Matroid polytopes and the effective resistance"

• October 2022 - NAS group seminar: seminar talk "Variance and covariance of distributions on graphs"

• June 2022 - ILAS2022 Conference, Galway:  invited minisymposium talk "The resistance radius of graphs"

• February 2022 - Oxford Networks Seminar, Oxford: seminar talk "Resistance curvature: a new discrete curvature on graphs"

• November 2021 - CMSA Harvard Seminar, Cambridge: online seminar talk "Resistance curvature: a new discrete curvature on graphs"

• July 2021 - SIM Student Seminar, Galway: online seminar talk "Variance and covariance of distributions on graphs"

• November 2020 - BENET20 Workshop, Belgium: online contributed talk "Variance and covariance of distributions on graphs"

• November 2020 - Utrecht Math Seminar, Utrecht: online seminar talk "Variance and covariance of distributions on graphs"

• September 2020 - Netsci2020 Conference, online: online contributed talk "Variance and covariance of distributions on graphs"

• August 2020 - DynamicsDaysDigital Conference: online contributed talk "Nonlinear network dynamics with consensus-dissensus bifurcatation"

• January 2020 - Portsmouth Math Seminar: seminar talk "Soules vectors: Applications in graph theory and the inverse eigenvalue problem"

• December 2019 - COXIC Workshop, Imperial College: workshop talk "Nonlinear network dynamics with consensus-dissensus bifurcatation"

• September 2019 - CCS19 Conference, Singapore: contributed conference talk "Constructing Laplacian matrices with predefined spectra"

• May 2019 - Oxford Networks Seminar, Oxford: seminar talk "Soules vectors: applications in graph theory and the IEP"

• October 2018 - Center for Complexity Seminar, Imperial College: seminar talk "The simplex geometry of graphs"

• October 2018 - Oxford Networks Seminar, Oxford: seminar talk "The simplex geometry of graphs"

• June 2018 - Netsci19 Conference, Paris: contributed talk "Tighter spectral bounds for the cut-size based on Laplacian eigenvectors"

• Augustus 2017 - Advances on Epidemics in Complex Networks Workshop, Delft: workshop talk "A unified mean-field framework for SIS epidemics on graphs"

Service

• Referee for: Europhysics Journal B, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Special Matrices

• Program committee for: Complex Networks 2021 & 2022

• Volunteer at: Complex Networks 2019, Netmob 2019

• Workshops organised: Geometry meets Algebra day (MPI MiS) 2023

• Seminars organised: Oxford Networks Seminar 2019-2021

Contact me for a full CV
karel.devriendt<at>mis.mpg.de