CHRISTIAN HOWARD

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working in Theoretical Computer Science. I am fortunate to be advised by Jeff Erickson where we work together on problems at the intersection of computational geometry, computational topology, and graph algorithms. I am a formerly trained aerospace engineer who spent some time working in control systems, robotics, machine learning, and scientific computing.

Job update

I will be joining Google full-time in Summer 2026 to help with their networking algorithms!

I will be in the Bay Area, so feel free to reach out!

Past Talk

I will be speaking at the Geometry/Topology seminar at Oklahoma State University on November 4th, 2025!

Past Talk

I spoke in Kanazawa, Japan on June 25th at the 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)! I will be giving a talk about recent work with Jeff Erickson towards morphing planar graphs on the sphere.