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.

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