I teach in the Mathematics and Statistics department at Amherst College.  I received my Ph.D. in mathematics in 2018 under the supervision of Sergi Elizalde at Dartmouth College.  I am drawn to mathematical settings that arise from problems in data science, especially those which are characterized by information scarcity.

My recent work includes the introduction of a measure, referred to as cohesion,  which uses distance comparisons to capture relative position.  The function has intuitive behavior that is quite different from metric-like measures of similarity/distance.  These, together with a uniqueness result for cohesion can be found in this paper.  We first introduced cohesion in a paper published in PNAS, here is a link.  A package for computing cohesion and plotting the associated community networks can be found at: my Github site (moorekatherine/pald).

Personally…. my roots are in Ann Arbor, Michigan and my heart is on the trails near Northampton, Massachusetts.