Daren Chen

Daren Chen is an Olga Taussky & John Todd Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow in Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His postdoctoral mentors are Yi Ni and Sergei Gukov. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, where his advisor was Ciprian Manolescu. His research focuses on low-dimensional topology, specifically Khovanov homology and knot Floer homology of links in S³ and other 3-manifolds.

Chen has taught multiple courses at Caltech, including 'Algebraic and Differential Topology' (Ma 151a/c) and 'Morse Theory and Floer Homology' (Ma 191b). He has also served as a teaching assistant for various mathematics courses at Stanford University, including Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Algebraic Topology.

His research interests span Khovanov-type homologies, L-space links, satellite operators, and geometric invariants. Notable contributions include work on the flip map in Khovanov homology and Bar-Natan homology for null-homologous links in RP³. He has presented his research at institutions such as UC Davis, UCLA, and the University of Oregon, focusing on topics like tau-invariant computations and formal properties of Floer homology modules.