Catherine Babecki
Olga Taussky and John Todd - Von Karman Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Mathematics
Overview
Catherine Babecki is a postdoctoral researcher jointly supported by the CMS Department as a von Karman instructor and the Mathematics Department as a Taussky-Todd Teaching Fellow, hosted by Venkat Chandrasekaran, Nets Katz, and Leonard Schulman. She is broadly interested in combinatorics, discrete geometry, spectral graph theory, theoretical computer science, and optimization. She completed her PhD with Rekha Thomas at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2023. Before UW, she received a BS in mathematics from Penn State, and an AS in mathematics from Mercer County Community College.