Serkan Hosten

Serkan Hosten is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Francisco. He has been affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI Leipzig) through his participation in the 2019 Summer School on Randomness and Learning in Non-Linear Algebra, and is expected to return for future collaborations.

• Research Focus: Application of algorithmically inspired methods in nonlinear algebra to optimization and statistics.
• Key Topics: Maximum likelihood degree of toric varieties, sum-of-squares decompositions of symmetric polynomials, and primary decomposition of algebraic statistical models.