Focus Period Lund 2026
Research Fellow
Kempner Institute at Harvard University (USA)
Alex Damian is a research fellow at the Kempner Institute at Harvard University and will join MIT in Fall 2026 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and EECS[AI+D]. His research focuses on the mathematical foundations of deep learning, with particular emphasis on optimization dynamics and representation learning. He received his Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University, where he was advised by Jason D. Lee, and his B.S. in Mathematics from Duke University. His work has been supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship.