Hi, I’m Shelby Cox.
I am a postdoc in the Non-Linear Algebra Group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. I work in algebraic statistics and use tools from tropical geometry, algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and combinatorics. I am particularly interested in problems in phylogenetics.
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan with David Speyer in May 2024. I received my B.S. in mathematics and B.A. in linguistics from UMass Amherst, where I was advised by Jenia Tevelev.
Here is my CV.
I am organizing a mini-symposium on Phylogenetic Networks at SIAM-AG 2025 together with Max Hill, Annachiara Korchmaros, and Danai Deligeorgaki. See here for more details.
- spcox@umich.edu
- F3 04
Recent Papers
Tropicalizing binary geometries
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(published) Le Matematiche, 2024. Homaloidal polynomials and Gaussian models of maximum likelihood degree 1 .
(published) Algebraic Statistics, 2024. Maximum Likelihood Degrees of Brownian Motion Tree Models: Star Trees and Root Invariance .
(submitted) arXiv, 2024. Group-Based Phylogenetic Models on 3-Sunlet Networks .
(preprint) arXiv, 2024. Classifying Tree Topology Changes along Tropical Line Segments .
(to appear) Algebraic Statistics, 2023. The tropical polytope is the set of all weighted tropical Fermat-Weber points .
(preprint) arXiv, 2023.
(published) Le Matematiche, 2024. Homaloidal polynomials and Gaussian models of maximum likelihood degree 1 .
(published) Algebraic Statistics, 2024. Maximum Likelihood Degrees of Brownian Motion Tree Models: Star Trees and Root Invariance .
(submitted) arXiv, 2024. Group-Based Phylogenetic Models on 3-Sunlet Networks .
(preprint) arXiv, 2024. Classifying Tree Topology Changes along Tropical Line Segments .
(to appear) Algebraic Statistics, 2023. The tropical polytope is the set of all weighted tropical Fermat-Weber points .
(preprint) arXiv, 2023.