Dr. Kenji Yoshida Kozai is a mathematician who specializes in low-dimensional topology, specifically geometric structures on three-manifolds and knotting and linking in spatial graph embeddings. He loves teaching undergraduate-level mathematics and mentoring students so that they can be successful in and beyond the classroom.

Academic Degrees

Ph.D. Stanford University, 2013

B.S. Harvey Mudd College, 2008

Teaching Interests

All college-level mathematics

Research Interests

Low-dimensional topology, geometric topology

Publications & Presentations

Hyperbolic structures from Sol on pseudo-Anosov mapping tori, Geom. Topol. 20 (2016), 437-468; with Erica Flapan. Linking number and writhe in random linear embeddings of graphs, J. Math. Chem. 54 (2016), 1117-1133.