Omar Al-Ghattas
Incoming NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Omar Al-Ghattas
Incoming NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow
MIT Department of Mathematics
Office 2-231B, 182 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
I am an incoming NSF MSPRF in the Department of Mathematics at MIT. Currently, I am an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. I completed my PhD in Statistics at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Daniel Sanz-Alonso.
My background is in mathematical statistics and probability, and my work has addressed problems in tensor estimation, operator learning theory, statistical inverse problems, data assimilation, and stochastic optimization. More recently, I have been learning about and working on problems in quantum information theory, with a particular focus on quantum Hamiltonians. I am especially interested in the spectra and low-energy states of disordered quantum systems, including quantum p-spin models, and in the complexity of preparing such states.