Byron Chin

Hi! Starting in August I will be a Hale Visiting Assistant Professor and ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech. My research interests lie broadly within discrete probability, high-dimensional statistics and combinatorics.

I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT advised by Elchanan Mossel. Before that I was an undergraduate at Princeton, where my thesis was advised by Allan Sly.

Selected Work

The full list can be found in the Research tab.

• The random stable roommates problem typically has no solution.
  with Marcus Michelen.
  submitted. [arXiv]

• Asymptotics for the harmonic descent chain and applications to critical beta-splitting trees.
  with Anna Brandenberger, Elchanan Mossel.
  under revision at Annales Henri Lebesgue. [arXiv]

• Stochastic block models with many communities and the Kesten-Stigum bound.
  with Elchanan Mossel, Youngtak Sohn, Alexander S. Wein.
  submitted.
  conference version in COLT 2025. [arXiv] [conference]

• Structure of lower tails in sparse random graphs.
  Random Structures & Algorithms 67 (2025), e70028. [arXiv] [journal] [blog]
  

• Optimal reconstruction of general sparse stochastic block models.
  with Allan Sly.
  Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, to appear. [arXiv] [journal]