Nelson Niu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Nelson Niu (he/they) is a mathematician, storyteller, and organizer. While a math major and writing minor at MIT, they were introduced to category theory and its applications by Topos founders Brendan Fong and David Spivak. Since then, Nelson has conducted research in polynomial functors, coherence theorems, and, while consulting with NASA, categorical modeling of data and dynamics. He earned his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Washington, applying categorical methods to problems in equivariant homotopy theory while chairing his bargaining unit of his academic labor union, UAW Local 4121.

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