Jacob Campbell

Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Science (Mathematics)
New York University Abu Dhabi
Email: jdc10025 (at) nyu.edu

I am a postdoc at NYU Abu Dhabi, working with Marwa Banna in the high-dimensional probability group. From 2023 to 2026, I held the position of Whyburn Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Virginia, where my faculty mentor was Ben Hayes. I completed my PhD in 2023 at the University of Waterloo, under the supervision of Alexandru Nica. I am originally from Ottawa, Canada.

I am interested in free probability, random matrices, and their connections with representation theory, combinatorics, and operator algebras.

Links

• arXiv
• Github
• UVA course on random matrices and free probability, Spring 2026