Thomas Taylor is an applied mathematician serving as a senior fellow at New America Foundation and as an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University. His current interests lie with the discrete geometry of network embeddings. Applications have included word co-occurrence networks of Islamist movements in Sub-Saharan West Africa and Southeast Asia, in social media friendship and follow networks embedded in geospatial and discourse spaces, spatiotemporal mapping of air transportation networks as well as the embedding of image pixel grids into three dimensional RGB color space. He received his PhD from the Committee of Applied Mathematics at Harvard a long time ago, but it seems like just yesterday.