Amanda Priestley

Hi! My name is Amanda and I'm an incoming Postdoc at King's College London working with Professor Guillaume Conchon—Kerjan in the Probability Group.

Until very recently, I was Ph.D. at UT Austin in the Theory Group, where I was extremely fortunate to be advised by Professors Evita Nestoridi and Kevin Tian.

In general, I am a probabilist that is interested in studying stochastic processes for sampling combinatorial structures, as well as modeling and analyzing combinatorial and physically motivated phenomena.

Amanda

Contact Info:

Email:
amanda [dot] c [dot] priestley [at] gmail [dot] com


Publications/Preprints

The Sunflower-Free Process with Patrick Bennett.
(Submitted).

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).


Conferences and Workshops

Here is a list of places you might have seen me.

Teaching

Spring 2026--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 311 Discrete Mathematics

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


Personal Interests

I love listening to music of almost any genre, but especially 80's and 90's postpunk and goth music. Other genres I particularly love are metal, jazz, and shoegaze (or any combination of these). I don't like country or reggae though. A long time 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.