Bio
Noah Giansiracusa is an Associate Professor of mathematics at Bentley University and a Faculty Associate at Harvard, with a PhD in algebraic geometry from Brown University.
He has appeared on CNN, NBC, BBC radio, Yahoo Finance, and written for Washington Post, Scientific American, TIME, Wired, Slate, Boston Globe, and others. He has worked with the WTO and OECD and the former president of the Dominican Republic.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer said of Noah's book How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News: "There is no better guide to the strategies and stakes of this battle for the future." Noah's latest book, Robin Hood Math, explores how people of all backgrounds can use math to help navigate life and take back control in a world dominated by algorithms.
Noah is cohost of two podcasts: Breaking Math (the #1 ranked math podcast), and AI in Academia.
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Awards and Honors
JPBM Communications Award, AMS-MAA-SIAM-ASAOutstanding Scholarly Contribution, Bentley UniversityInnovation in Teaching Award, Bentley UniversityPI Research Grant ($165k), NSFYoung Investigator Grant ($40k), NSACo-PI Conference Grant ($28k), NSFCollaboration Grant ($35k), Simons FoundationPostdoctoral Fellowship ($150k), NSFScholarly Contributions and Creative Productions
Journal Articles
Fink, A., Giansiracusa, J., Giansiracusa, N. (2025). Projective Hypersurfaces in Tropical Scheme Theory I. Research in the Mathematical Sciences, (12) 30 (Link)Fink, A., Giansiracusa, J., Giansiracusa, N., Mundinger, J. (2025). Projective hypersurfaces in tropical scheme theory I: the Macaulay ideal. Research in Mathematical Sciences, (12) Issue 2 (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2025). Uncovering the Euclidean Geometry of Data. American Mathematical Monthly, (132) Issue 1 (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2024). Uncovering the Euclidean Geometry of Data. American Mathematical Monthly, (132) 1Giansiracusa, N. (2023). Branching on the bench: quantifying division in the supreme court with trees. Constitutional Political Economy, (34) Issue 1 (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2022). The mathematics of misinformation. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, (69) 10 (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Giansiracusa, J. (2022). The universal tropicalization and the Berkovich analytification. Kybernetika, (58) 5 790-815. (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2022). Branching on the bench: Quantifying division in the Supreme Court with trees. Constitutional Political Economy (Link)Giansiracusa, J., Giansiracusa, N. (2022). THE UNIVERSAL TROPICALIZATION AND THE BERKOVICH ANALYTIFICATION. Kybernetika, (58) Issue 5 (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2022). The Mathematics of Misinformation. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, (69) Issue 10 (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2021). An evolutionary view of the U.S. Supreme Court. Mathematical and Computational Applications, (26) 2 31. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Caminata, A., Moon, H., Schaffler, L. (2021). Point configurations, phylogenetic trees, and dissimilarity vectors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), (118) 12 10. (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2021). Trust your instincts when opportunity arises. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, (68) 3 372-375. (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2021). Fibonacci, golden ratio, and vector bundles. Mathematics, (9) 4 5. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Manaker, J. (2020). Matroidal representations of groups. Advances in Mathematics, (366) 23. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Mundinger, J., Crowley, C. (2020). A module-theoretic approach to matroids. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, (224) 2 894-916. (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2020). Finding, and sharing, mathematical beauty in the world. Wisaarkhu, (Special Volume 1) Topic 2 (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Vasilyeva, A. (2020). From Poland to "Petersburg": The Banach-Tarski Paradox in Bely's Modernist Novel. Annals of Language and Literature, (4) 3 8-Jan. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Manaker, J. (2020). Matroidal representations of groups. Advances in Mathematics, (366) Issue (Link)Crowley, C., Giansiracusa, N., Mundinger, J. (2020). A module-theoretic approach to matroids. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, (224) Issue 2 (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Ricciardi, C. (2019). Computational geometry and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mathematical Social Sciences, (98) 9-Jan. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Ricciardi, C. (2019). Computational geometry and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mathematical Social Sciences, (98) Issue (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Giansiracusa, J. H. (2018). A Grassmann algebra for matroids. Manuscripta Mathematica, (156) 1 187-213. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Caminata, A., Moon, H., Schaffler, L. (2018). Equations for point configurations to lie on a rational normal curve. Advances in Mathematics, (340) 653-683. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Ricciardi, C. (2018). Geometry in the courtroom. American Mathematical Monthly, (125) 10 867-877. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Vasilyeva, A. (2018). Mathematical symbolism in a Russian literary masterpiece. Mathematical Intelligencer, (40) 3 11-Feb. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Gallardo, P. (2018). Modular interpretation of a non-reductive Chow quotient. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, (61) 2 457-477. (Link)Moon, C., Giansiracusa, N., Lazar, N. (2018). Persistence terrace for topological inference of point cloud data. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, (27) 3 576-586. (Link)Moon, C., Giansiracusa, N., Lazar, N. (2018). Persistence Terrace for Topological Inference of Point Cloud Data. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, (27) Issue 3 (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Vasilyeva, A. (2018). Mathematical Symbolism in a Russian Literary Masterpiece. Mathematical Intelligencer, (40) Issue 3 (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Doran, B., Jensen, D. (2017). A simplicial approach to effective divisors in M_{0,n}. International Mathematics Research Notices 2 529-565. (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2016). Teaching the quandary of statistical jurisprudence: a review-essay on Math on Trial. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, (6) 2 207-224. (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2016). The dual complex of M_{0,n} via phylogenetics. Arkiv for Matematik, (106) 6 525-529. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Giansiracusa, J. H. (2016). Equations of tropical varieties. Duke Mathematics Journal, (165) 18 3379-3433. (Link)Giansiracusa, J., Giansiracusa, N. (2016). Equations of tropical varieties. Duke Mathematical Journal, (165) Issue 18 (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Bolognesi, M. (2015). Factorization of point configurations, cyclic covers and conformal blocks. Journal of the European Mathematical Society, (17) 2453-2471. (Link)Bolognesi, M., Giansiracusa, N. (2015). Factorization of point configurations, cyclic covers, and conformal blocks. Journal of the European Mathematical Society, (17) Issue 10 (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Gillam, W. D. (2014). On Kapranov's description of M_{0,n} as a Chow quotient. Turkish Journal of Mathematics, (38) 625-648. (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2013). Conformal blocks and rational normal curves. Journal of Algebraic Geometry, (22) 773-793. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Jensen, D., Moon, H. (2013). GIT compactifications of M_{0,n} and flips. Advances in Mathematics, (248) 242-278. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Gibney, A. (2012). The cone of type A, level one conformal blocks divisors. Advances in Mathematics, (231) 798-814. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Simpson, M. (2011). GIT compactifications of M_{0,n} from conics. International Mathematical Research Notices 14 3315-3334. (Link)Giansiracusa, N., Simpson, M. (2011). GIT compactifications of ̄0,n from conics. International Mathematics Research Notices, (2011) Issue 14 (Link)Cohn, H., Ballinger, B., Blekherman, G., Giansiracusa, N., Kelly, E., Schuermann, A. (2009). Experimental study of energy-minimizing point configurations on spheres. Experimental Mathematics, (18) 3 257-283. (Link)CICCHETTI, C. C., Giansiracusa, N. Predicting financial crises with tree leaves. (In Progress)Books
Giansiracusa, N. (2025). Robin Hood Math: How to Fight Back When the World Treats You Like a Number Penguin Press (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2021). How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News 248. New York City, NY: Apress (a division of Springer Nature) (Link)Conference Proceedings
Giansiracusa, N., Wu, X. (2020). “Chow quotients of Grassmannians by diagonal subtori” Lecture Notes SeriesGiansiracusa, N., Moon, C. (2019). “Persistent homology machine learning for fingerprint classification” Giansiracusa, N., Giansiracusa, R., Moon, C. (2019). “Persistent homology machine learning for fingerprint classification” Presentations
Giansiracusa, N. (2026). “Public communication of mathematics” Presented at the AMS JMM DC Giansiracusa, N. (2026). “JPBM Communications Award Lecture” Presented at the AMS JMM DC Giansiracusa, N. (2026). “Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture: How Patterns Have Shaped Nature and Technology” (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2026). “Public lecture series (Math Encounters) at Museum of Math” (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2026). “AI and Anthropology” Presented at the Society fo Applied Anthropology Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference New Mexico (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2025). “The Secret Lives Of Algorithms” (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2025). “The Secret Formula Behind Social Media” Presented at the ODSC Open Data Science Conference Boston Giansiracusa, N. (2025). “How Algorithms Impact our Information Ecosystem ” Presented at the Harvard-Yenching Institute workshop on AI and Media Harvard Giansiracusa, N. (2025). “Robin Hood Math” Presented at the Harvard Book store Harvard Book store Cambridge, MA (Link)Giansiracusa, N. (2024). “Rational normal curves and phylogenetic trees” Presented at the University of Illinois Chicago Algebraic Geometry Seminar Chicago, IL Giansiracusa, N. (2024). “Reflections on a Mathematician's Journey into the Public Eye” Presented at the University of Illinois Chicago Mathematics Colloquium Chicago, IL Giansiracusa, N. (2024). “AI in the workplace” Presented at the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistical Computing Mini-Symposium on Statistical Computing in Action Online Giansiracusa, N. (2024). “Panel discussion on AI and elections, organized by President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic” Presented at the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development Global Forum Latin America and the Caribbean New York, NY Giansiracusa, N. (2024). “U.N. Panel on The Future of News Media” Presented at the United Nations U.N. Panel on The Future of News Media Geneva & Online Giansiracusa, N. (2024). “The Secret Formula Behind Social Media” Presented at the Open Data Science Conference Open Data Science Conference Boston, MA Giansiracusa, N. (2023). “Artificial Intelligence and Disinformation” Presented at the OECD OECD: Tackling Disinformation Paris, France Giansiracusa, N. (2023). “Panel discussion on AI, organized by President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic” Presented at the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development Global Forum Latin America and the Caribbean NYC Giansiracusa, N. (2023). “AI and trade” Presented at the WTO WTO training session Virtual Giansiracusa, N. (2023). “You are just a number in someone's equation” Presented at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe At a crossroads: Safeguarding media freedom to protect democracy Macedonia Giansiracusa, N. (2023). “Masterclass on AI and Freedom of Expression” Presented at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Masterclass on AI and Freedom of Expression Macedonia Giansiracusa, N. (2023). “Session on Advocacy Training” Presented at the American Mathematical Society Joint Math Meeting, Session on Advocacy TrainingGiansiracusa, N. (2023). “Book Talk: How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News” Presented at the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development Book talk: Global Foundation for Democracy and Development New York, NY Giansiracusa, N. (2022). “Blockchain as a tool to combat disinformation?” Presented at the University of Malta University of Malta blockchain seminarGiansiracusa, N. (2022). “You are just a number in the tech giants' equations” Presented at the Maltese gov't and the UN Young People and Information Malta Giansiracusa, N. (2022). “Rethinking Social Media Algorithms” Presented at the Universitat Stuttgart Trust and Disinformation Stuttgart, Germany Giansiracusa, N. (2022). “Mathematics and Misinformation” Presented at the University of Illinois, Chicago Selected Interdisciplinary Directions of Entertaining MathematicsGiansiracusa, N. (2022). “Algorithmic Aspects of Misinformation” Presented at the Copper Mountain Community College Separating Fact from Fiction Joshua Tree, CA Giansiracusa, N. (2022). “Tutorial on Deepfakes” Presented at the Open Data Science Conference Boston Giansiracusa, N. (2022). “The Mathematics of Misinformation” Presented at the Harvard University Harvard University Open Neighborhood SeminarCICCHETTI, C. C., Sultan, J., Giansiracusa, N., Goodwin, F., Khumbah, N. (2021). “ACS2021” Presented at the Bentley University, State Street, Truman National Security Project ACS2021Giansiracusa, N. (2021). “What Role Does Machine Learning Play in Misinformation?” Presented at the U.S. Naval Academy Data Science SeminarGiansiracusa, N. (2021). “Workshop on Detecting Deepfakes” Presented at the Open Data Science Conference Virtual Giansiracusa, N. (2021). “Machine learning and misinformation” Presented at the University of Iceland Computer Science seminar Online (due to COVID) Giansiracusa, N. (2021). “Intro to Machine Learning” Presented at the SUNY New Paltz Machine Learning Seminar Online (due to COVID) Giansiracusa, N. (2021). “The Shape of Trees” Presented at the Bentley University Bentley University Mathematical Sciences Research SeminarGiansiracusa, N. (2021). “Parameterizing matroids with schemes” Presented at the American Mathematical Society AMS virtual sectional meeting Online (due to COVID, formerly Georgia Tech) Giansiracusa, N. (2021). “Geometry and Topology in Data” Presented at the University of Minnesota Applied Topology Online SeminarGiansiracusa, N. (2020). “Geometric Views of the U.S. Supreme Court” Presented at the University of Illinois, Chicago Selected Interdisciplinary Directions of Entertaining Mathematics Virtual Giansiracusa, N. (2020). “Matroidal representations of groups” Presented at the UMASS Amherst, Department of Mathematics Valley Geometry SeminarGiansiracusa, N. (2020). “Matroidal Representations of Groups” Presented at the Boston College Number Theory/Algebraic Geometry SeminarGiansiracusa, N. (2019). “Persistent homology machine learning for fingerprint classification” Presented at the IEEE 18th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications Boca Raton, Florida Giansiracusa, N. (2019). “Matroidal representations of groups” Presented at the Northeastern University Geometry-Physics-Representation Theory Seminar Boston, MA Service
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Committee Member for Tenure-Track Search Committee 2021-10-01 - 2022-05-31Course Coordinator for Internship coordinator 2020-01-01 - PresentCommittee Member for Curriculum Committee 2019-11-01 - PresentCommittee Member for Social Committee 2019-09-01 - 2021-05-31Service: Professional
Editorial Review Board Member for Scatterplot journal editorial board member - PresentCommittee Member for AMS JMM Program Committee 2023-02-01 - 2024-01-31Board of Advisors for Critical AI Advisory Board Member - PresentConference/Workshop Session Chair for American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Moduli Spaces - 2022-03-19Conference/Workshop Session Chair for American Mathematical Society Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Tropical Geometry - 2020-03-20Service: Ph.D. Advising
Supervisor 2024/01 - PresentSupervisor 2012/01 - 2018/03Service: University
Member of Advisory Board for Valente Center 2023-09-01 - PresentFaculty Fellow for Hoffman Center for Business Ethics 2023-09-01 - 2027-08-31Committee Member for PhD Council 2023-09-01 - 2027-05-31Committee Member for Bentley AI Task Force - PresentCommittee Member for Bentley-Gallup Steering Committee 2023-01-01 - PresentCommittee Member for Resource Stewardship, Revenue Growth and Diversification Committee 2021-10-01 - 2022-06-30Committee Member for Bentley University Learning and Teaching Council 2020-08-01 - 2023-07-31
