Alex Kunin attended Stony Brook University where he received a degree in mathematics with a minor in computer science. He then pursued graduate studies at the University of Alabama Huntsville (M.S. in computer science), the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (M.S. in mathematics) and the Pennsylvania State University (PhD in mathematics). Before joining the faculty at Creighton, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the National Library of Medicine’s Biomedical Informatics and Data Science training program at Baylor College of Medicine. His research lies at the intersection of mathematics and neuroscience, with a focus on structure-function relationships in neural networks and applications of algebra and combinatorics for data analysis.