brendon rhoades received his ph.d. from the university of minnesota in 2008. he was awarded an nsf mathematical sciences postdoctoral research fellowship, spent 2008-2009 as a visiting assistant professor at berkeley, 2009-2011 as an instructor of applied mathematics at mit, and 2011-2012 as an ntt assistant professor at usc. rhoades joined the ucsd faculty in 2012.

rhoades's research is in algebraic combinatorics. he has used representation theoretic tools in kazhdan-lusztig theory and cluster algebras to obtain enumerative results related to the cyclic sieving phenomenon. rhoades has also written papers about reflection groups and related structures in coxeter-catalan combinatorics.