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I solve problems using math and software
I am currently a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Associate Professor in Algebra at Durham University. I am leading the theme “Understanding ML Models” in the EPSRC national research hub `Erlangen Programme’ for AI.
My research interests are tropical geometry and algebraic geometry with special focus on algorithms and applications. I am the lead developer for tropical geometry of the computer algebra system OSCAR, and have contributed to Singular, Polymake, and Macaulay2.
CV
2024-present UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Associate Professor at Durham University
2021-2024 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Assistant Professor at Durham University
2020-2021 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow & Senior Lecturer at Swansea University
2017-2019 Postdoc at the Max Planck Institut MIS, Leipzig, Germany
2018 research stay at the Mittag Leffler Institute, Djursholm, Sweden
2016-2017 Postdoc at the Ben-Gurion University, Israel
2015-2016 Postdoc at the TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
2011-2015 PhD student at the TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
2014 research stay at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa
2005-2010 study of mathematics with minor in physics at the TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
2008-2009 year abroad at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Awards
2023 (Co-I) EPSRC national research hub on mathematical foundations of AI
2019 UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (link)
Citizenship
Editor for the Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry
Contact
Mailing address
Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science Building
Durham University
Upper Mountjoy Campus
Stockton Road
Durham University
DH1 3LE
Office
Room: 3111
Phone: +44 191 3344 159
E-mail: yue.ren2@durham.ac.uk
