Christian Serio

About me

I recently completed my PhD in Mathematics at Stanford University, where I was advised by Amir Dembo. Starting this summer, I will be an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley in the Department of Mathematics.

I am broadly interested in probability theory and its applications to mathematical/statistical physics, especially random interfaces and growth models.

Here is my CV.

Publications and preprints

1. The pinned half-space Airy line ensemble, with Evgeni Dimitrov and Zongrui Yang. Submitted. [arXiv]
2. The half-space KPZ line ensemble and its scaling limit, with Sayan Das. Submitted. [arXiv]
3. Scaling limit and tail bounds for a random walk model of SOS level lines, with Milind Hegde and Yujin H. Kim. Submitted. [arXiv]
4. Convergence to stationary measures for the half-space log-gamma polymer, with Sayan Das. J. Funct. Anal. 289(4): 110982 (2025). [arXiv] [Journal]
5. Uniform convergence of Dyson Ferrari–Spohn diffusions to the Airy line ensemble, with Evgeni Dimitrov. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 61(1): 385-402 (2025). [arXiv] [Journal]
6. Scaling limit for line ensembles of random walks with geometric area tilts. Electron. J. Probab. 28: 1-14 (2023). [arXiv] [Journal]
7. Tightness of discrete Gibbsian line ensembles. Stoch. Process. Their Appl. 159: 225-285 (2023). [arXiv] [Journal]
8. Tightness of Bernoulli Gibbsian line ensembles, with E. Dimitrov, X. Fang, L. Fesser, C. Teitler, A. Wang, and W. Zhu. Electron. J. Probab. 26: 1-93 (2021). [arXiv] [Journal]

Invited talks

1. JMM Section on Random Tilings, Random Permutations, and Particle Systems, Washington, DC, Jan 7.
2. Northeast Probability Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, Nov 20-21.
3. LA Probability Forum, UCLA, Nov 2025.
4. University of Chicago, Probability and Statistical Physics Seminar, Oct 2025.
5. Columbia University, Probability Seminar, Oct 2025.
6. University of Utah, Stochastics Seminar, Mar 2025.
7. Stanford University, Probability Seminar, Oct 2023.
8. Columbia University, Columbia Probability Workshop, May 2023.

Fellowships and awards

1. NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2026–2029.
2. ARCS Scholar Award, Northern California Chapter of the ARCS Foundation, 2024–2026.
3. John Dash Van Buren Jr. Prize in Mathematics, Columbia College, April 2021.
4. Van Amringe Mathematical Prize, Columbia College, May 2020.

Teaching

• Winter 2024,26: CA for Math 151, Intro to Probability Theory
• Spring 2024,25: TA for Math 63DM, Modern Mathematics: Discrete Methods
• Winter 2023: TA for Math 53, Ordinary Differential Equations
• Fall 2022: CA for Math 136, Stochastic Processes
• Spring 2022: CA for Math 158, Basic Probability and Stochastic Processes with Engineering Applications
• Fall 2021: CA for Math 19, Calculus I

• Spring 2019-Spring 2021: TA for Math GU4061-4062, Intro to Modern Analysis I & II
• Summer 2020: TA for Math UN1201, Calculus III

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