Hi! My name is Amanda and I'm a Ph.D. Student at UT Austin where I'm affiliated with the Theory Group.
I am extremely fortunate to be advised by Professor Evita Nestoridi and Professor Kevin Tian.
I like probability theory, combinatorics, and combinatorially motivated problems in probability.
I am currently on the academic job market for a postdoc position in mathematics or computer science.
Email: amandapriestley [at] utexas [dot] edu
Desk: GDC 4.408B
Inversions in Parking Functions with Kyle Celano, Jennifer Elder,
Kimberly P. Hadaway, Pamela E. Harris, and Gabe Udell.
FPSAC 2025 Conference Proceedings. (Submitted).
Statistics on \(\ell\)-Interval Parking Functions with Kyle Celano, Jennifer Elder,
Kimberly P. Hadaway, Pamela E. Harris, Jeremy L. Martin,
and Gabe Udell.
(Submitted).
A Probabilistic Parking Process and Labeled IDLA with Pamela E. Harris, Thiago Holleben,
J. Carlos Martínez Mori, J. Carlos Martínez Mori, Keith Sullivan,
and Per Wagenius.
(Submitted). [ Oberwolfach Report ].
The \(S_k\) Shuffle Block Dynamics with Evita Nestoridi and Dominik Schmid
ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 21, 1547–1566 (2024).
Fall 2025--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 311 Discrete Mathematics
Spring 2025--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 311 Discrete Mathematics
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 goth & postpunk, metal, jazz, and shoegaze (or any combination of these). I don't like country or reggae though. A long while ago I used to draw and paint quite a lot, and I was also a ballet dancer in my past life. More recently I've been practicing contortion.