I am currently an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Postdoctoral Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, jointly supervised by Caroline Uhler and Todd Golub.
Previously, I was a Computational Postdoctoral Associate at the Regev Lab, supervised by Aviv Regev.
Before joining the Broad Institute, I was a Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at the Math Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I held a double appointment also as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Biomedical and Clinical Informatics Lab, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at UMICH.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in May 2017 working under the supervision of Professor Bruce Reznick.
I will join the University of Massachusetts Boston as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics in January 2023.
My research focuses on formulating novel, mathematically sound theoretical frameworks to perform analysis of multi-modal, multi-dimensional data while preserving the integrity of their structure. I work on the generalization of matrix-based compression, noise elimination, and dimension reduction methods to higher dimensions. My background is at the intersection of algebraic geometry, multi-linear algebra, combinatorics, and representation theory. I explore applications in bioinformatics and cancer genomics.
Currently, I work on the formulation of the novel, mathematically sound tensor-based frameworks, and the development of computational tools to model tumor microenvironments.
Please feel free to get in touch with me at ntokcan@broadinstitute.org. You can also find additional ways to contact me in the Contact section.
