Work
Work
Visiting Faculty at Department of Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. 2026—present
Research Mathematician at DEVCOM Army Research Lab, Aberdeen Proving Grounds. 2025—present
Postdoc at the National Institute for Modeling Biological Systems, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 2023—2025
Education
PhD at Stanford University, Department of Mathematics. 2018—2023 Advisor: Gunnar Carlsson, Ravi Vakil
AB at Harvard University, Department of Mathematics. 2014—2018
Papers
“How to track your tangent space: the geometry of the linear representation hypothesis,” preprint (2026). Wyatt Mackey, B. Chr istopher Rinderspacher, Piotr Franaszczuk, David L. Boothe. pdf
“ORACLE: Optimizer-Relative Alignment for Constrained Learning,” preprint (2026). Utkarsh Grover, Wyatt Mackey, Kaixun Hua, J. Morris Chang, Xiaomin Lin.
“DePICT: Decision-Preserving Interface for Constrained Downstream Tasks,” preprint (2026). Utkarsh Grover, Ravi Ranjan, Agoritsa Polyzou, Wyatt Mackey, J. Morris Chang, Leonardo Bobadilla, Xiaomin Lin.
“BIT-Nav: Brain-Inspired Trajectory Memory for Embodied Navigation,” CVPR 2026: 2nd Workshop on 3D-LLM/VLA (2026). Rithvik Jonna, Aakash Gurram, Man Namgung, Wyatt Mackey, Tinoosh Mohsenin. arxiv
“HiCL: Hippocampal-Inspired Continual Learning,” Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2026). Kushal Kapoor, Wyatt Mackey, Yiannis Aloimonos, Xiaomin Lin. arxiv
“Higher-order information for self-supervised place cell learning,” Annals of Applied Statistics (2026). Jared Deighton, Wyatt Mackey, Ioannis Schizas, David L. Boothe Jr., Vasileios Maroulas. arxiv
“Geometric sparsification in recurrent neural networks.” Nature Npj Artificial Intelligence (2025). Wyatt Mackey, Ioannis Schizas, Jared Deighton, David L Boothe, Vasileios Maroulas. arxiv
“A parameterized Adams spectral sequence for applied topology.” Wyatt Mackey. PhD Thesis. Available here.
“Evasion paths by homotopy limits.” Gunnar Carlsson, Benjamin Filippenko, Wyatt Mackey. arXiv