Joshua A. Grochow is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Prior to that he was an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, and a postdoc in the theory group at University of Toronto. He graduated from The University of Chicago in 2012; his advisors were Lance Fortnow and Ketan Mulmuley. In addition to his interests in algebraic and geometric complexity theory, he is also interested in broader issues in complex networks and complex adaptive systems, sometimes referred to in our community as “the other” complexity theory.