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.