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Jacob Calvert

I’m a mathematician interested in collective behavior, which I study in terms of probability theory. In practice, this often involves working with Markov chains, random walks, and discrete geometry. I’m a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Data Engineering and Science at Georgia Tech, supervised by Dana Randall. I’m also a research scientist at Forta Health, a startup that expands access to behavioral therapy for children with autism.

Previously, I graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD in statistics and worked at Dascena, a clinical machine learning company that was acquired in 2022. Before that, I completed an MSc in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford, an MSc in mathematics from the University of Bristol, and a BS in bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am grateful to the Marshall Scholarship for my time in the UK.