I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. My work uses tools from analysis and probability to study problems motivated by physics, statistics, and machine learning.

I completed my Ph.D. at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2024 under the supervision of Sylvia Serfaty. I was a visiting postdoc at the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) during the Fall of 2025 for the semester program on kinetic theory.

I am currently on the job market.

Academic appointments:
Sep/2024 - present: Postdoctoral Associate at Carnegie Mellon University.
Sep/2024 - Dec/2025: Postdoctoral Fellow at Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute.

Education:
Sep/2019-Sep/2024: Ph.D. in Mathematics at New York University.
                                  Advisor: Sylvia Serfaty.
Sep/2015-May/2019: B.Sc. in Honours Mathematics at McGill University.

Preprints:

• Effective Lagrangian regularity and the uniqueness threshold for random Hölder velocity fields.
  M. Colombo, E. Hess-Childs and K. Rowan.
  Submitted. (2026)
• Sharp pathwise nonuniqueness for additive SDEs.
  E. Hess-Childs, and K. Rowan.
  Submitted. (2026)
• Radon--Wasserstein Gradient Flows for Interacting-Particle Sampling in High Dimensions.
  E. Hess-Childs, D. Slepčev, and L. Xu.
  Submitted. (2026)
• A sharp commutator estimate for all Riesz modulated energies.
  E. Hess-Childs, M. Rosenzweig, and S. Serfaty.
  In revisions at Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. (2025)
• Turbulent and intermittent phenomena in a universal total anomalous dissipator.
  E. Hess-Childs and K. Rowan.
  Submitted. (2025)

Publications:

• A universal total anomalous dissipator.
  E. Hess-Childs and K. Rowan.
  Communications in Mathematical Physics, accepted. (2026)
• Large deviation principles for singular Riesz-type diffusive flows.
  E. Hess-Childs.
  Electronic Journal of Probability. (2026)
• Another look at regularity in transport-commutator estimates.
  E. Hess-Childs, M. Rosenzweig, and S. Serfaty.
  Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, memorial issue for Haïm Brezis. (2026)
• Divergence-free drifts decrease concentration.
  E. Hess-Childs, R. Raquépas and K. Rowan.
  Journal of Functional Analysis. (2025)
• Higher-order propagation of chaos in for interacting diffusions.
  E. Hess-Childs and K. Rowan.
  Probability and Mathematical Physics. (2025)
• On the strong attraction limit for a class of nonlocal interaction energies.
  A. Burchard, R. Choksi, and E. Hess-Childs.
  Nonlinear Analysis. (2020)