Pardis Semnani

Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia

1984 Mathematics Road, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2

Office: AUDX 135

Email: psemnani@math.ubc.ca

I am currently a PhD student at the Department of Mathematics in the University of British Columbia (UBC), working under the supervision of Dr. Elina Robeva. I began my PhD program in September 2022.


My Academic Journey

Before beginning my work as a PhD student at UBC, I was fortunate enough to work with Dr. Robeva as a MSc student at UBC from September 2020 to August 2022. Here is a link to my master's thesis.

Prior to joining UBC, I received a BSc in Mathematics from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran. I was a student at IUT from September 2016 to July 2020.


My Research Interests

My research interests include algebraic statistics, combinatorics, multilinear algebra, and applied algebraic geometry. I also enjoy thinking about tensors and the various types of decompositions one can think of for them.  I have lately been working on the problem of causal inference as well as density estimation under specific shape constraints.