Hi! My name is Amanda and I'm a CS Ph.D. Student at UT Austin where I'm affiliated with the Theory Group. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Anna Gál. I like probability theory, combinatorics, and combinatorially motivated problems in probability.
Email: amandapriestley [at] utexas [dot] edu
Desk: GDC 4.408B
The \(S_k\) Shuffle Block Dynamics with Evita Nestoridi and Dominik Schmid
ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 21, 1547–1566 (2024).
Fall 2024--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 311 Discrete Mathematics
Fall 2023--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 311 Discrete Mathematics
Fall 2022--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 331 Algorithms and Complexity
Fall 2019--Undergraduate Teaching Assistant CS 331 Algorithms and Complexity
I love listening to music of almost any genre. My favorites are probably postpunk, metal, jazz, shoegaze, and techno/EBM (or any combination of these). But I don't like country or reggae. A long while ago I used to draw and paint quite a lot, and I was also a ballet dancer in my past life. (I still love to take class whenever I have the time.) Recently, I've also been trying out rhythmic gymnastics and contortion.
