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Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
Email: kunalchawla [at] princeton [dot] edu
I am a Canadian mathematician. Currently I am a third year graduate student at Princeton University, working with 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
- The Poisson boundary of discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups without moment conditions (joint with Behrang Forghani, Joshua Frisch, and Giulio Tiozzo). Submitted (2025)
- Non-realizability of the Poisson boundary (joint with Joshua Frisch). Submitted (2025)
- Random walks and superlinear divergent geodesics (joint with Inhyeok Choi, Vivian He, and Kasra Rafi). Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (2024)
- Genericity of contracting geodesics in groups (joint with Inhyeok Choi and Giulio Tiozzo). Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (2023)
- The Poisson boundary of hyperbolic groups without moment conditions (joint with Behrang Forghani, Joshua Frisch, and Giulio Tiozzo). Annals of Probability (2022)
- Effective drift estimates for random walks on graph products Electronic Communications in Probability (2022)
Invited and Upcoming talks
- Descriptive Dynamics and Combinatorics Seminar, McGill, April 21 2026
- NY Group Theory Seminar, CUNY Feb 27 2026
- YMCN Autumn school: Probability and dynamics on groups, Munster, Sep 2025
- 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