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Jess Banks
Graduate Student, UC Berkeley
Jess Banks is a PhD student in the mathematics department, working with Nikhil Srivastava. Her research spans theoretical computer science, probability, and statistical physics, with particular focus on non-backtracking walks, semidefinite programming, and the use of randomness in numerical linear algebra.