Kunal Chawla

he/him pronouns

Department of Mathematics, Princeton University

Email: kunalchawla [at] princeton [dot] edu

I am a second year graduate student at Princeton University, working with by Allan Sly and Assaf Naor.

I am broadly interested in probability theory. Recently, I have been thinking about probability and its applications to group theory, computer science, and dynamical systems. My research is currently funded by a PGS-D award from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, as well as a Centennial Fellowship.

Here is my CV.


Publications and preprints
  1. Random walks and superlinear divergent geodesics (joint with Inhyeok Choi, Vivian He, and Kasra Rafi). Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (2024)
  2. Genericity of contracting geodesics in groups (joint with Inhyeok Choi and Giulio Tiozzo). Submitted (2023)
  3. The Poisson boundary of hyperbolic groups without moment conditions (joint with Behrang Forghani, Joshua Frisch, and Giulio Tiozzo). Annals of Probability (2022)
  4. Effective drift estimates for random walks on graph products Electronic Communications in Probability (2022)

Invited and Upcoming talks
  • UCSD Probability Seminar, Feb 2025
  • LA Probability Forum, Feb 2025
  • Special Session on Descriptive Combinatorics, Dynamics, and Measured Group Theory, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Jan 2025
  • IAS Group Theory Seminar, Nov 2024
  • ENS Group Theory Seminar, Mar 2024
  • Randomness and Geometry Seminar, Fields Institute, Feb 2024
  • Geometry and Topology Seminar, CUNY, Nov 2023