Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., Applied Physics
September 2022 – PresentStanford University. GPA: 3.85/4.0
B.S., Computer Science and Physics
September 2015 – June 2020University of Washington, Seattle. GPA: 3.85/4.0
Transition School, Robinson Center for Young Scholars
September 2014 – June 2015One-year transition program enabling advanced students to enter college at age 14.
Professional Experience
Research Assistant, Ganguli Lab
September 2022 – PresentStanford University
Research Associate, Theory Group
August 2020 – May 2022Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco
Modeling, Analysis and Theory Intern
June – August 2019Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle
Undergraduate Researcher (Applied Mathematics)
September 2016 – June 2019University of Washington, Seattle
Publications
Haining Pan, James V. Roggeveen, Erez Berg, Juan Carrasquilla, Debanjan Chowdhury, Surya Ganguli, Federico Ghimenti, Juraj Hasik, Henry Hunt, Hong-Chen Jiang, Mason Kamb, Ying-Jer Kao, Ehsan Khatami, Michael J. Lawler, Di Luo, Titus Neupert, Xiaoliang Qi, Michael P. Brenner, Eun-Ah Kim. CMT-Benchmark: A Benchmark for Condensed Matter Theory Built by Expert Researchers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05228 (2025).
Mason Kamb, Surya Ganguli. An analytic theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.
Mason Kamb, Janie Byrum, Greg Huber, Guillaume Le Treut, Shalin Mehta, Boris Veytsman, David Yllanes. Statistical topology of the streamlines of a two-dimensional flow. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 55, no. 50 (2022): 505001.
Guillaume Le Treut, Greg Huber, Mason Kamb, Kyle Kawagoe, Aaron McGeever, Jonathan Miller, Reuven Pnini, Boris Veytsman, David Yllanes. A high-resolution flux-matrix model describes the spread of diseases in a spatial network and the effect of mitigation strategies. Scientific Reports 12, 15946 (2022).
Bin Yang, Merlin Lange, Alfred Millett-Sikking, Xiang Zhao, Jordão Bragantini, Shruthi VijayKumar, Mason Kamb, Rafael Gómez-Sjöberg, Ahmet Can Solak, Wanpeng Wang, Hirofumi Kobayashi, Matthew N. McCarroll, Lachlan W. Whitehead, Reto P. Fiolka, Thomas B. Kornberg, Andrew G. York, Loic A. Royer. DaXi—high-resolution, large imaging volume and multi-view single-objective light-sheet microscopy. Nature Methods 19, 461–469 (2022).
Griffin Chure, Rachel A. Banks, Avi I. Flamholz, Nicholas S. Sarai, Mason Kamb, Ignacio Lopez-Gomez, Yinon Bar-On, Ron Milo, Rob Phillips. Anthroponumbers.org: A quantitative database of human impacts on Planet Earth. Patterns 3, no. 9 (2022).
Greg Huber, Mason Kamb, Kyle Kawagoe, Lucy M. Li, Aaron McGeever, Jonathan Miller, Boris Veytsman, Dan Zigmond. A minimal model for household-based testing and tracing in epidemics. Physical Biology (2021).
Greg Huber, Mason Kamb, Kyle Kawagoe, Lucy M. Li, Boris Veytsman, David Yllanes, Dan Zigmond. A minimal model for household effects in epidemics. Physical Biology (2020).
Mason Kamb, Eurika Kaiser, Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz. Time Delay Observables for Koopman: Theory and Applications. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 19.2 (2020): 886–917.