About me

I am a PhD student in Applied Mathematics at MIT, fortunate to be advised by Pablo Parrilo. I am supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

I am currently interested in questions about polynomial nonnegativity, symmetry, and machine learning. I have previously worked on fast algorithms for imaging problems, and before academia I worked briefly in quantitative finance.

If I’m not trying to prove a theorem or squash a bug in code, I’m probably trying to learn how to do something – maybe involving cooking in the kitchen or climbing a new route in the gym.

Email: mitchh [ at ] mit [ dot ] edu

Recorded talks

Watch my talk at Eindhoven University of Technology at the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry about “Improved Nonnegativity Certification with Bernstein Polynomials.”

Publications

Please see my Google Scholar for up-to-date publications.