PhD, 2012
Electrical Engineering, Technion
Advisor: Robert Adler
Thesis: Algebraic topology of random fields and complexes
Omer Bobrowski
Professor in Mathematical Data Science
I am a Professor in Mathematical Data Science in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London, and a Visiting Professor in the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion.
Background
Education
MSc, 2008
Electrical Engineering, Technion
Advisors: Ron Meir and Yonina Eldar
Thesis: Real time spike train decoding by neural networks
BA, 2004
Mathematics and Computer Science, The Open University of Israel
Background
Employment
Duke University
Department of Mathematics
Visiting Assistant Professor
2015–2016
Elliott Assistant Research Professor
2012–2015
Technion
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Visiting Professor
2025–present
Associate Professor
2021–2025
Assistant Professor
2016–2021
Queen Mary University of London
School of Mathematical Sciences
Professor in Mathematical Data Science
2024–present
Senior Lecturer
2022–2024
Meta FAIR
Fundamental AI Research (contract via Magnit)
Research Scientist, part-time
2026–present
Research
Areas of interest
Stochastic topology
- Topological phase transitions
- Limiting distributions of topological invariants
- Universality in random topology
- Homological percolation and connectivity
Applied topology
- Topological noise modelling
- Statistical topology: inference, filtering, hypothesis testing
- Complex networks and signal processing
- Natural language processing
Probability & stochastic processes
- Point processes and random geometric graphs
- Limit theorems for local functionals
- Random fields and Morse theory
- Poisson approximation
Funding
Grants
Current research support.
Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence: An Erlangen Programme for AI
UKRI AI Hub
Co-investigator, theme lead · 2024–2029
Topological Phase Transitions in Stochastic Geometry
Principal Investigator · 2024–2027
Universality in Topological Data Analysis
Principal Investigator · 2024–2027