Daniel Irving Bernstein completed his PhD under the direction of Seth Sullivant at North Carolina State University. He is currently an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MIT. His research interests include algebraic statistics, tropical geometry, and discrete geometry. Dr. Bernstein will be at ICERM from September 2018 until December 2018 as a Semester Postdoctoral Fellow.

Papri Dey completed her PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and she worked as a guest scientist at Max Planck Institute Leipzig under the supervision of Prof. Bernd Sturmfels. At present she has been working as a visiting scientist at Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata under the supervision of Prof. Bimal Roy. Her research interests include convex algebraic geometry, optimization over polynomials, and lattice based cryptography. Dr. Dey will be at ICERM from September 2018 to December 2018 as a Semester Postdoctoral Fellow.

Mareike Dressler completed her Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Goethe-University Frankfurt in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thorsten Theobald. Her research interests are real algebraic geometry, optimization, and convex geometry, in particular the connection of nonnegative polynomials, sums of squares, and sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials to these fields. Dr. Dressler will be at ICERM from September 2018 through December 2018 as a Semester Postdoctoral Fellow.

Kathlén Kohn completed her PhD in mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin under the supervision of Bernd Sturmfels and Peter Bürgisser. Her research lies in algebraic geometry with a focus on subvarieties of Grassmannians. Moreover, she is interested in applications to computer science, such as computer vision, cryptography and complexity theory. Kathlén will be at ICERM from September 2018 to May 2019 as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

Sara Lamboglia completed her Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Warwick in 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Diane Maclagan. She is now a postdoc in the LOEWE group at Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. Her research interests are in tropical and algebraic geometry with a particular focus on toric degenerations, Fano schemes and software for tropical computations. Dr. Lamboglia will be at ICERM from September 2018 through December 2018 as a Semester Postdoctoral Fellow.

Marilyn Vazquez Landrove completed her PhD in Mathematics at George Mason University in 2018 under the direction of Dr. Tim Sauer. Her research interests include data clustering, topological data analysis, machine learning, and computer vision. Dr. Vazquez Landrove will be at ICERM from September 2018 through May 2019 as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

Dane Wilburne completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics at Illinois Institute of Technology in 2018 under the direction of Sonja Petrović. His research interests include commutative algebra, probabilistic combinatorics, algebraic statistics and interactions between these fields. He will be at ICERM from September 2018 to December 2018 as a Semester Postdoctoral Fellow.