Daniel Adams

Daniel Adams

Mathematics Researcher

The Innovation Game

Biography

I am a Mathematics Researcher at The Innovation Game, working with domain experts to deploy TIG’s mathematical challenges. My role includes protocol design, ensuring robust incentives and system health.

I’m particularly interested in the evolutionary discovery of mathematical algorithms, re-energised by the results of AlphaEvolve, which led me to join the committee of the Institute for Algorithm Mining.

In academia, my research focused on real and stochastic analysis, especially the variational analysis of interacting particle systems via large deviation principles and gradient flow structures. I have supervised MSc theses on reinforcement learning for high-frequency trading and on optimal transport problems.

Outside of work I enjoy rock climbing, cycling, and board games.

Interests
  • Interacting Particle Systems
  • Large Deviations
  • Optimal Transport and JKO schemes
  • Machine Learning and Algorithmic Trading
Education
  • PhD in Mathematics, 2022

    University of Edinburgh

  • MSc in Mathematics, 2018

    University of Bristol

  • BSc in Mathematics, 2017

    University of Sussex

Recent Publications

(2022). Entropic regularisation of non-gradient systems. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis.

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(2022). Operator-splitting schemes for degenerate, non-local, conservative-dissipative systems. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series A.

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(2022). Large Deviations and Exit-times for reflected McKean–Vlasov equations with self-stabilising terms and superlinear drifts. Stochastic Processes and their Applications.

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