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David Hien

Hill Visiting Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Office: Hill 269
110 Frelinghuysen Rd
Piscataway, NJ 08854
david.hien (at) rutgers.edu


About Me

I am a Hill Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Rutgers University, where I work with Konstantin Mischaikow. Before that, I completed my PhD at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) under the supervision of Oliver Junge and Ulrich Bauer.

I am broadly interested in the interplay of algebraic topology, dynamics, and data. My main research focuses on understanding recurrent dynamics from data. Although motivated by applications, this work leads to questions from a variety of mathematical fields (topological data analysis, computational geometry, representation theory, ergodic theory, …).

I currently organize the ACM seminar at Rutgers.

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Publications

  1. Distance Matrices of Ordered Point Clouds and Their Persistent Homology
    David Hien
    Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (accepted), 2026.
    PDF arXiv Code

  2. Cycling Signatures: Identifying cycling motions in time series using algebraic topology
    Ulrich Bauer, David Hien, Oliver Junge, Konstantin Mischaikow
    Journal of Computational Dynamics 12(4), 554–595, 2025.
    PDF arXiv Journal Code

  3. Combinatorial models of global dynamics: learning cycling motion from data
    Ulrich Bauer, David Hien, Oliver Junge, Konstantin Mischaikow, Max Snijders
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.07066, 2021.
    PDF arXiv

Teaching

Rutgers University

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