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.

I am looking for highly motivated PhD students to join my group. If you are interested in working with me, apply to our PhD program and mention my name in your application. Unfortunately, I will not be able to respond to inquiries from students who have not yet been admitted to Johns Hopkins.

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

  • computational complexity of statistical problems   [1], [2], [3]
  • random and pseudorandom matrix theory   [4], [5]
  • the nascent theory of random tensors   [6]
  • convex optimization in proof assistants and experimental mathematics   [7]

I am currently (in Spring 2025) teaching Probability Theory II. Some other pedagogical materials I have prepared recently include:

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

You can reach me at kunisky [at] jhu.edu, or in person in Office N438 in the Wyman Park Building.