I am a third-year PhD student at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where I am extremely fortunate to work with Thomas Rothvoss and Shayan Oveis Gharan. I am interested in functional inequalites such as spectral gap (a.k.a. Poincare inequality) and modified log-Sobolev inequalities in the setting of Markov chains and techniques to prove them such as ``average curvature condition" (see our paper on the SK model) and stochastic localization. I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at IIT Bombay.
I am forever grateful to Arnab Bhattacharyya, who hosted me as a research assistant for a year at NUS.
Email: mathewsboban242 [at] gmail [dot] com