2025 - current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia
Supervisors: Prof. Khanh Dao Duc, Prof. Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Prof. Geoffrey Schiebinger.

2019 - 2025: PhD in Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Adivisor: Prof. Adriana Dawes.

Working papers and preprints

Kravtsova, N. (2024). The NP-hardness of the Gromov-Wasserstein distance. arXiv codes

Publications

Kravtsova, N. (2025). k-Sample inference via Multimarginal Optimal Transport.
Accepted in Electronic Journal of Statistics. arXiv slides

Plourde, S. M., Kravtsova, N., & Dawes, A. T. (2025). Asymmetry in centrosome maturation revealed through AIR-1 dynamics in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 8667. doi

Kravtsova, N., Chamberlin, H.M. & Dawes, A.T. (2023). Efficient parameter generation for constrained models using MCMC. Scientific Reports 13, 16285. journal

Kravtsova, N., McGee II, R.L. & Dawes, A.T. (2023). Scalable Gromov–Wasserstein based comparison of biological time series. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 85, 77. journal codes slides

Ignacio, D. P., Kravtsova, N., Henry, J., Palomares, R. H., & Dawes, A. T. (2022). Dynein localization and pronuclear movement in the C. elegans zygote. Cytoskeleton, 79(12), 133–143. doi

Dawes, A. T., Wu, D., Mahalak, K. K., Zitnik, E. M., Kravtsova, N., Su, H., & Chamberlin, H. M. (2017). A computational model predicts genetic nodes that allow switching between species-specific responses in a conserved signaling network. Integrative Biology, 9(2), 156-166. doi

Kravtsova, N., Dawes, A.T. (2014). Actomyosin regulation and symmetry breaking in a model of polarization in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 76, 2426–2448. doi