Omer Bobrowski

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

PhD, 2012

Electrical Engineering, Technion

Advisor: Robert Adler

Thesis: Algebraic topology of random fields and complexes

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