Building machine learning algorithms using differential geometry + topology with applications in Biology + NLP.
Postdoc @ MSU’s Munchlab working with Dr. Munch and Dr. Chitwood. Math PhD @ GMU advised by Dr. Berry.
Papers
- Indigenous Plant Knowledge In The De La Cruz-Badiano Codex (1552): A Text Mining And Morphometric Study (Submitted 2026)
- Disentangling blade and vasculature shape in grapevine leaves(Submitted 2026)
- Towards metric measure space learning (2024). Doctoral Thesis.
- Rotation Symmetries of Sequential Matrices with Applications to the Jacobi Symbol (2019). PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research.
Software
- ECT: a python package for calculating and visualizing the Euler Characteristic Transform efficiently using numba. A demo can be found here.
Presentations & Blog Posts
- A Case for Online Workshops in the Time of COVID-19 (2020). SIAM News Blog.
- Rotational Symmetries of Sequential Matrices. George Mason University Spring 2019 (Slides).
- Applications of Diffusion Maps. Mason Experimental Geometry Lab Symposium Fall 2018
- Finite Fields Package For Mathematica. CNU Paidea Spring 2018 (Github, Poster)
- Analysis of Strong Gravitational Lens using Convolutional Neural Networks. (Github, Poster) CNU Paideia Spring 2018
Contact via email: hello@yemeen.com