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People / Nelson Niu

Postdoctoral Researcher

About

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.

Blog posts

Dialectica categories and polynomial functors, Part 1

Like many stories in math, this one is about building bridges: uniting the dialectica categories from Valeria’s 1991 doctoral thesis with David’s work on polynomial functors. I’ve been working with David on polynomial functors for two years now, so when I was placed in Valeria’s team at the AMS’s…

Nelson Niu
2022-07-12

Left to right: Sophie Libkind, David Jaz Myers, Nelson Niu, Owen Lynch

Get to know our Summer Research Associates

We’re excited to welcome our 2021 summer research associates to our Berkeley campus! This summer we have Sophie Libkind, Owen Lynch, David Jaz Myers, and Nelson Niu joining our work on connected intelligence and model-based scientific computing. They bring new exciting energy and ideas, and we’re…

Brendan Fong, Sophie Libkind, David Jaz Myers, Owen Lynch, Nelson Niu
2021-07-19
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