Ben Blum-Smith

I am a mathematician working in invariant theory, combinatorial commutative algebra, and applications to data science. I am currently an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University, working with Soledad Villar.

I obtained my PhD from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, under the direction of Yuri Tschinkel and Fedor Bogomolov.

Here are my papers on the arXiv.
Here is my Google Scholar profile.
I organize the Math & Democracy Seminar at the NYU Center for Data Science.

Photo of Ben Blum-Smith in front of a Beamer slide stating the theorem of Stanley-Reisner theory that asserts equivalence between Cohen-Macaulayness of a Stanley-Reisner ring and vanishing of homology groups.