Josh Alman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. under the co-supervision of Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Ryan Williams at MIT in 2019, then spent two years as a Michael O. Rabin postdoctoral fellow in the Theory of Computation group at Harvard before joining Columbia. In addition to matrix multiplication, Josh is broadly interested in algorithm design and complexity theory, and especially problems in these areas with an algebraic nature. Josh likes solving and creating puzzles, and he is the captainof the Galactic Trendsetters, the team that won the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt.