Byron Chin

Hi! I am a fifth year Ph.D. student at MIT advised by Elchanan Mossel and supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Previously, I was an undergraduate at Princeton. My research interests lie within discrete probability, high-dimensional statistics and combinatorics.

I am on the postdoc job market this year.

Selected Work

The full list can be found in the Research tab.

• Asymptotics for the harmonic descent chain and applications to critical beta-splitting trees.
  with Anna Brandenberger, Elchanan Mossel.
  submitted. [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]

• Exact threshold and limiting distribution for non-linear Hamilton cycles.
  submitted. [arXiv]

• 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]