Carlos is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Massachusetts -- Amherst (UMass Amherst). He was previously a Lindsay Visiting Assistant Research Professor (postdoctoral researcher) in the Department of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD in biostatistics from Florida State University in 2020 under the supervision of Anuj Srivastava where he investigated the shape and structural properties of chromosomes and proteins. At Pennsylvania State University he has been working with Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic and Matthew Reimherr to develop methods at the intersection of differential privacy and statistical shape analysis. Carlos J. Soto grew up in Chicago. He received a BA in mathematics at Ripon College in 2011, an MS in mathematics at University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee in 2015, and an MS and PhD in Biostatistics Florida State University. Carlos is interested in statistical and mathematical problems geometric in nature, but entertains any interesting problems. He enjoys theoretical challenges as well as computational implementation. The pandemic has changed his non-academic interests greatly, but in general he is interested in rock climbing, comedy, gaming, music, and guitar (mainly 1970's to 1990's rock). He has rock climbed in many states and hopes to continue to explore crags across the country. His favorite authors include Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, and Manfredo P. Do Carmo.