Krystal Guo

Assistant Professor, Discrete Mathematics

Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam
QuSoft

I work in algebraic graph theory. My background is in eigenvalues of graphs and digraphs, graph polynomials, association schemes, and linear algebra. I am interested in studying these areas, and also in using tools from these areas in new settings, such as quantum computing and optimization.

Email: k dot guo at uva dot nl

Curriculum vitae (PDF)

Amsterdam has a very active research community; for more information see TCS (Theoretical Computer Science) Amsterdam and DIAMANT.

Fun fact: my Erdős number is 2, via Chris Godsil.

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Background

From October 2019 to August 2020, I was a post-doctoral fellow at Université de Montréal and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, supervised by Luc Vinet. From September 2017 to August 2019, I was a post-doctoral fellow at Université libre de Bruxelles with Samuel Fiorini. I was a visiting scholar at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, from September 1 to November 1, 2017. From September 2015 to August 2017, I was a post-doc at University of Waterloo with Chris Godsil.

I completed my PhD in Mathematics at Simon Fraser University (2011–2015) under the supervision of Bojan Mohar. The title of my thesis is “Simple eigenvalues of graphs and digraphs”. I completed my Masters of Mathematics (2009–2010) at University of Waterloo in Combinatorics & Optimization, under the supervision of Chris Godsil. My undergraduate degree (2004–2009) is also from University of Waterloo. I have a double major in pure mathematics and combinatorics and optimization.