About

I am a PhD student at Stanford University. Previously, I was an undergraduate at Brown University.

Publications and Preprints

  • Concentration on HDX: Simplified and Optimized [ STOC submission ]
    with Nirjhar Das, Max Hopkins, and Arka Ray
  • On efficient graph covers and steered random walks [ arXiv ]
    with Richard Ueltzen
  • Linear equations and chromatic thresholds in B_h sets [ arXiv ] [ slides ]
  • Coloring sparse random Cayley graphs [ arXiv ] [ slides ]
  • Randomly piercing algebraic sets [ arXiv ] [ slides ]
    with Daniel Altman
  • New Sidorenko-type inequalities in tournaments [ arXiv ]
    with Xiaoyu He, Nitya Mani, Jiaxi Nie, and Fan Wei
  • The cycle structure of large block permutations [ arXiv ]
  • Poisson approximation for large permutation groups [ arXiv ]
    with Persi Diaconis. In Advances in Applied Mathematics.
  • Brain Functional Connectivity Estimation Utilizing Diffusion Kernels on a Structural Connectivity Graph [ arXiv ] (ASA student paper award)
    with Jerome Sanes, Eli Upfal, and Ani Eloyan

Teaching

  • Topics in Markov Chains (Graduate) (2 quarters)
  • Stochastic Processes (Graduate) (3 quarters)
  • Theory of Probability (Undergraduate) (6 quarters)
  • Theory of Probability I (Graduate) - Measure Theory (2 quarters)
  • Theory of Probability III (Graduate) - Stochastic Processes and Brownian Motion (1 quarter)

Workshops and Conferences

  • Joint Mathematics Meeting (Jan 2027)
  • AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting (Oct 2026)
  • Rutgers Probabilistic Combinatorics Conference (Oct 2026)
  • Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Workshops - Pseudorandomness, HDX, and Spectral Theory (Aug-Dec 2026)
  • Synergies in Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science ICM Satellite Conference (Aug 2026)
  • SIAM Discrete Mathematics Conference (Jun 2026)
  • IAS Park City Mathematics Institute Summer School - Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics (Jul 2025)
  • Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute Workshops - Extremal Combinatorics (Jan-Mar 2025)
  • Cornell Probability Summer School (Aug 2024)
  • SIAM Discrete Mathematics Conference (Jul 2024)
  • Joint Mathematics Meeting (Jan 2024)
  • Random Structures and Algorithms Conference (Jun 2023)
  • Joint Statistical Meeting (Aug 2022)

Erdős number: 2
Contact: ntung [at] stanford [dot] edu