PhD student in probability, University of Toronto.
Advisor: Duncan Dauvergne.
Email: firstname.lastname@mail.utoronto.ca CV
About
My research is in KPZ universality, positive temperature models,
and the RSK correspondence. Outside of math, I enjoy rock climbing and other sports.
Selected papers
Mathematics
Duncan Dauvergne and Fardin Syed,
Bulk heights of the KPZ line ensemble,
arXiv:2602.06876, 2026.
arXiv
Duncan Dauvergne and Fardin Syed,
Down-the-middle isometries for the Airy and KPZ sheets,
arXiv:2609.26902, 2026.
arXiv
Previous physics and astronomy work
Ashley M. Stock, Fardin Syed, Marten H. van Kerkwijk, Rebecca Lin,
Franz Kirsten, and Ue-Li Pen,
Scintillation Properties of PSR B1133+16 Measured with Very Long Baseline Interferometry,
The Astrophysical Journal, 992(2), 192, 2025.
arXiv
Fardin Syed, Riccardo Di Sipio, and Pekka Sinervo,
Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM) neural networks for reconstruction of top-quark pair decay kinematics,
arXiv:1909.01144, 2019.
arXiv
Teaching
MAT377: Mathematical Probability, University of Toronto, Winter 2026.
Random Matrix Theory reading course, Summer 2026.
SLMath Summer School Tutorials
Tutorial worksheets and slides for
Random Growth Models, Phase Separation and Hamilton-Jacobi PDE.
Files will be added throughout the school.
