About me
I am a President's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Georgia Institute of Technology. I obtained my PhD in Mathematics from Northwestern University in 2024. You can read my thesis here. You can read more about my research here.
Since the fall of 2024, I have been co-organizer for the Joint GT-UGA Geometry Topology Seminar at Georgia Tech.
In the spring of 2025, I co-organized a Special Session on Invariants in Geometric Topology: Low Dimensions and Beyond at the 2025 AMS Eastern Sectional at Clemson University.
In the winter of 2024, I co-organized the 2024 Tech Topology Conference at Georgia Tech.
In the summer of 2024, I defended my dissertation and obtained my PhD. from Northwestern University. I also attended the 41st Workshop in Geometric Topology at Calvin University.
In the spring of 2024, I attended the 2024 Graduate Student Geometry Topology Conference at Michigan State University.
In the winter of 2023, I attended the 2023 Tech Topology Conference at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In the summer of 2023, I attended the 2023 Georgia Topology Conference at the University of Georgia. I also attended the 2023 Trisectors Workshop at the University of California Davis.
In the spring of 2023, I attended the 2023 Midwest Geometry Conference at Kansas State University.
In the fall of 2022, I gave a talk on my research for Geometric Topology Grad and Postdoc Seminar (GT GAPS). I also gave a talk for the Notre Dame Graduate Student Seminar on the same topic.
In the summer of 2022, I attended the SYNC Early Career Workshop at the University of California Davis.
In spring of 2022, I attended Deformations of Geometric Structures in Current Mathematics: "A celebration of the works of Masatake Kuranishi." at Columbia University.
In the summer of 2021, I moved to Princeton University. I also gave a talk on disk bundle plumbings and lens spaces for the Graduate Student Seminar at Notre Dame.
In the spring of 2021, I attended the Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference at Indiana University. I also gave a talk on Milnor's Fibration Theorem for the Graduate Student Seminar at Notre Dame. I gave a talk on disk bundle plumbings and lens spaces for the Northwestern University Geometry Seminar. Here are some rough notes for that talk.
In the winter of 2020, I was the TA for two courses on abstract mathematics and proof methods. I also acted as coordinator for the Northwestern University Graduate Student Seminar (NUGSS) as well as the Northwestern Graduate Student Symplectic Geometry Seminar. I gave a talk on Milnor's Fibration Theorem for NUGSS.
In the fall of 2020, I was the TA for two courses on Linear Algebra.
In the summer of 2020, I attended the Harvard CSMA Big Data Conference. I also attended the Eighth Pacific Rim Conference in Mathematics. I participated in the GTGAPS Seminar and attended GOATS 2. I mentored two students for the inaugural University of Chicago Virtual REU. You can read their papers here and here.
In the spring of 2020, I participated in and gave lectures for the UCLA Student Seminar on Flexibility in Contact Topology. I also attended the Western Hemisphere Virtual Symplectic Seminar.
In the winter of 2019, I mentored Max Olander (Northwestern) through the Northwestern University Directed Reading Program (DRP). Max and I read some notes and a book on convex geometry. I organized a broad-audience seminar on Geometry called "Geometry for All". I was also the TA for a course on Complex Analysis and a course on Linear Algebra.
In the fall of 2019, I was a visiting graduate student at the Institute for Advanced Study. I also gave several lectures on Weinstein Manifolds for the Topics in Geometry course at Northwestern University. Finally, I completed my qualifying exam for PhD candidacy. The topic of my examination was Donaldson's divisor theorem.
In the summer of 2019, I mentored three students for the University of Chicago's REU.
In August of 2019, I attended SNAP 2019.
In July of 2019, I visited CRM in Montreal for Current Trends in Symplectic Topology. I am in the group photo here. I also visited the Fields Institute in Toronto for the Graduate Summer School on the Homological Algebra of Mirror Symmetry. I am in the group photo here
In June of 2019, I attended and gave a talk at Kylerec 2019.
In May of 2019, I attended Tsyganfest at Northwestern University.
In April of 2019, I attended the joint UChicago/Northwestern Geometric Analysis Day.
In March of 2019, I attended the Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In the spring of 2019, I mentored Alex Ortiz (MIT) for the Northwestern University Directed Reading Program (DRP). Alex and I read the first three chapters of Farkas and Kra's book on Riemann Surfaces.
In the winter of 2018, I attended the Virginia Topology Conference at the University of Virginia. I also helped organize a reading group on Gromov's Compactness theorem for Pseudoholomorphic Curves.
In the summer of 2018, I spent 3 weeks in Japan for the MSRI h-Principle Summer School. I also mentored two students for the University of Chicago's REU. You can read their papers here and here.
In June of 2018, I took my preliminary exams to conclude my first year of graduate school.
In April, I attended the Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference.
In March, I attended the joint UChicago/Nothwestern Geometric Analysis Day.
In January, I attended the 25th Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar.
In the fall of 2017, I started my PhD at Northwestern University. I also attended the 2017 midwest Geometry Conference.
In the summer of 2017, I mentored three students for the University of Chicago's REU. You can read their papers here, here , and here . In July and August, I attended the 2017 Summer Northwestern Analysis Program (SNAP). I'm in the group photos here, here, and here. In June, I attended the Thematic Program in Khaler Geometry 2017 at Notre Dame University.
In June 2017, I graduated from the University of Chicago's MS-PSD program.
In the summer of 2016, I mentored three students for the University of Chicago's REU. You can read their papers here, here, and here. I also attended the University of Chicago Alebraic Topology Summer School .
In 2016, I completed my Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and graduated summa cum laude from the New Mexico Insitute of Mining and Technology.
In the summer of 2015, I attended the University of Chicago's REU. There I worked under Professor Benson Farb. The research I conducted was joint work with Peter Haine about certain spaces of polynomials. You can read my perspective here.
From 2012 to 2015, I worked as a student software engineer at IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center. I wrote software that aided in the visualization and management of seismological sensor data. I worked on a small team with Steve Azevedo and Derick Hess. I started work at PASSCAL with the intent of pursuing a career in Software Engineering. However, I left my position in order to focus on my Mathematics studies.
In 2012, I started school at The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology as a dual Mathematics and Computer Science major. I studied Computer Science for 3 years before finally deciding to leave the field in favor of pure mathematics.
In 2012, I received my high school diploma from from the Albuquerque Institute for Math and Science.
When I am not studying math, I enjoy playing piano. I am self-taught and have been playing since 2006. I dabble in making music from time to time. I am a proponent of free software. Here are some of my favorite quotes.