ANNA LITTLE

I was born in Alabama but spent the majority of my childhood in Europe, returning to the United States to attend Samford University, where I earned a BS in mathematics in 2005. I completed a PhD in mathematics at Duke University in 2011, where I worked under Mauro Maggioni to develop a new multiscale method for estimating the intrinsic dimension of a data set. From 2012-2017 I was an assistant professor of mathematics at Jacksonville University, a primarily undergraduate liberal arts institution where in addition to teaching and research I also served as a statistical consultant for JU faculty and students. Wanting to focus the majority of my energy on research once again, I began a postdoc in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University in 2018. I worked with Yuying Xie and Matthew Hirn on statistical and geometric analysis of high-dimensional data. In January 2021 I began a tenure-track position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, where I am also a core member of the Utah Center for Data Science. I have two children, a spouse, and a dog and I enjoy traveling, running, and being outside.