Blake Jackson

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

My research is in algebraic combinatorics and number theory, with a focus on cluster algebras, symmetric functions, and the inverse Galois problem. I am particularly interested in combining frontier machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods with classical techniques to discover new combinatorial interpretations, bijections, and algorithms, and to make progress on open problems across algebra, combinatorics, and number theory. 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 an article recently published about my work on the inverse Galois problem in Scientific American.

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. Before that, I completed my Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Alabama under the supervision of Kyungyong Lee. And before that, I grew up in Hayden, Alabama, and graduated from Jacksonville State University.

My Erdős number is 3: 

Blake Jackson - Bjorn Poonen - Andrew Granville - Paul Erdős

My Erdős number used to be 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