Roan Talbut

I am a Post Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University working with Yue Ren and Jeffrey Giansiracusa as part of the Erlangen AI Hub. My research is focussed on the use of tropical geometry in analysing and training neural networks.

I completed my PhD at Imperial College London in 2025, supervised by Dr Anthea Monod and Prof. Mathias Drton. I was a Roth Scholar enrolled with the Oxford-Imperial Mathematics of Random Systems CDT and the Imperial-TUM Joint Academy of Doctoral Studies project on Learning and Analyzing Discrete Geometric Structure in Statistical Models.

Broadly, I am interested in studying geometric and combinatorial objects through a computational or probabilistic lens. My research has centred on applications of tropical geometry in data science, and has featured topics ranging from matroid theory and polytope geometry to optimal transport and high dimensional statistics.

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I am currently coorganising MEGA 2026 at Durham University with Yue Ren, Victoria Schleis, and Oliver Clarke

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