Yair Shenfeld works in high-dimensional probability and its interactions with analysis, geometry, and mathematical physics. His current research interests include optimal transport, stochastic analysis, convex geometry, and renormalization group methods.
Prior to coming to Brown, Yair was a C.L.E. Moore instructor and an NSF postdoctoral fellow in the Mathematics department at MIT. He completed his PhD in Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, and received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from MIT.