Jose Israel Rodriguez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research bridges applied algebraic geometry and algebraic statistics, focusing on nonlinear algebra, maximum likelihood estimation, monodromy, and polynomial systems in engineering and science applications. Primary Affiliation: Department of Mathematics , UW-Madison Additional Affiliations: Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering , Institute for Foundations of Data Science Research Interests : Applied algebraic geometry for nonlinear eigenvalue problems and kinematics Algebraic statistics in nearest point problems and likelihood geometry Numerical methods for monodromy, Galois groups, and polynomial optimization Teaching and Mentorship : Co-organized the Collaborative Undergraduate Research Laboratory (CURL) for Spring 2020 Advises PhD students Julia Lindberg and Zinan Wang , with Bernd Sturmfels as his own PhD advisor Developed software tools like Multiregeneration and Decomposable Sparse Polynomial Systems Academic Contributions : Authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications in journals like SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, and Journal of Symbolic Computation Organized international conferences including Monodromy and Galois Groups in Enumerative Geometry and SIAM AG19 Active member of the SIAM community and developer of the Matroids Day seminar










