About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University. I am also affiliated with these other divisions of the university:

Until the summer of 2024, I was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University, hosted by Dan Spielman. Before that, in the spring of 2021, I received my PhD in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, advised by Afonso Bandeira (now at ETH Zurich) and G‌érard Ben Arous.

Research

Some of my current research interests (with a few representative papers) include:

  • computational complexity of statistical problems   [1], [2], [3]
  • spectral algorithms and random/pseudorandom matrix theory   [4], [5], [6]
  • diagrammatic methods in linear/multilinear algebra and their applications   [7], [8]

See here for a full list.

Teaching

In the spring semester of 2026, I am teaching Probability Theory II. Some other pedagogical materials I have prepared recently include:

Group & Advising

I am currently a research advisor for the following students at Johns Hopkins:

And these students have graduated from research programs under my supervision:

Unfortunately, I am not able to respond to inquiries about working with me from students who have not yet been admitted to Johns Hopkins. If you are one of those students, please instead apply to our PhD program and mention my name in your application.

Speaking & Travel

Some upcoming events I will be attending or speaking at include:

Contact

You can reach me at kunisky [at] jhu.edu, or in person in Office NE258 in the Marbury Building (6225 Smith Avenue) on the Mount Washington campus.