I have been an Associate Professor in Mathematics at Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) since July 2024, and my work revolves around noncommutative geometry, index theory and their applications in topology, geometry and representation theory. I have worked mostly on transverse index problems with respect to foliations or actions of Lie groups, with a recent focus on the quantization commutes with reduction problem.
I am also interested in history, epistemology and pedagogy in Mathematics, and particularly about how mathematical ideas and concepts arise. With the recent advent of Artificial Intelligence, my research interests have focused more intensely towards this latter direction, as I believe reimagining our capacity to think horizontally will not only become crucial to work with AIs in a complementary way, but is the only remedy to the vertical hyper-specialization that has taken place in current research, which AIs seem bound to dominate in a near-term future.
Email address: rudy.rodsphon@scu.edu.cn