I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University at Albany SUNY.
Before arriving in Albany in 2017, I was a postdoc at Duke University for three years under the mentorship of John Harer, Ezra Miller and Sayan Mukherjee.
I completed my PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2014 under the direction of Robert Ghrist, although I spent half of my time as a visiting associate to Bob MacPherson at the Institute for Advanced Study. There I learned stratification theory from Mark Goresky.
My research is primarily in the development of theoretical foundations for Topological Data Analysis via sheaf theory and category theory.
Recent Activity
- November 16, 2021: Three conference papers accepted to AeroConf 2022! For more details, see the the Conference Papers Heading under Research. Unfortunately, due to ITAR issues, distribution of these papers is not available at this time.
- November 12, 2021: Decorated Merge Trees for Persistent Topology accepted by JACT.
- October 15, 2021: Gave the opening Applied Topology seminar at Oxford: “Exemplars of Sheaf Theory in TDA”. Slides are here: 2021-TDA-Center-Oxford
- August 27, 2021: Robert Cardona passes his candidacy exam and is now ABD.
- July 26, 2021: From Trees to Barcodes and Back Again II is posted on the ArXiv.
- May 14, 2021: Jordan DeSha successfully defends his PhD dissertation Inverse Problems for Topological Summaries in Topological Data Analysis. Congrats, Jordan!
- March 29, 2021: Decorated Merge Trees for Persistent Topology is posted on the ArXiv. Click here for my DMT poster.
- January 27, 2021: The ATiA Seminar now has a new website!
- October 8, 2020: Prof. Curry secures a five year contract with NASA Glenn Research Center valued at $650,000 to work on TIMAEUS: Topologically-Influenced Methods for Ad hoc, Evolving and Uncertain Systems.
- June 24, 2020: Classification of Constructible Cosheaves has been published in Theory and Applications of Categories (TAC).
- May 24, 2020: Moduli Spaces of Morse Functions for Persistence has been published in the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (JACT).
- April 29, 2020: A Relative Theory of Interleavings is posted to the ArXiv.
- October 3, 2019: Prof. Curry is recognized by UAlbany for his NSF CRII Award.
- February 7, 2019: The Fiber of the Persistence Map for Functions on the Interval is published in the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (JACT).
- January 30, 2019: Prof. Curry is awarded $174,074 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal Enriched Topological Summaries for Inverse Problems.
Contact
Please email me at jmcurry [@] albany [dot] edu