Blake Jackson

I am an Innovation Engineer at ICARM, an NSF-funded MSRI on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University. Here is my CV.

My research is in combinatorics, in particular cluster algebras and symmetric functions. I am particularly interested in combining frontier machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods to discover new combinatorial interpretations, bijections, and algorithms. I spend the majority of my time addressing open questions involving mutation-invariant and hereditary properties of quivers, as well as statistics and bijections on Dyck paths and Young tableaux. I am also the creator and maintainer of the Quiver Mutation Database.

You can read more details about my research in my research statement or watch a talk I gave at ICERM in 2025 about my research.

Before working at ICARM, I was an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Connecticut, where I was mentored by Ralf Schiffler and Kyu-Hwan Lee. I grew up in Hayden, Alabama, and attended college at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. I completed my Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa under the supervision of Kyungyong Lee.

My Erdos number is 4 (in two different ways): 

1. Blake Jackson - Kyungyong Lee - Jamie Radcliffe - Béla Bollobás - Paul Erdős

2. Blake Jackson - Kyu-Hwan Lee - Georgia Benkart - Persi Diaconis - Paul Erdős