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.
From Fall 2023 to Summer of 2024, I was finishing my PhD at Northwestern University. From summer of 2021 to the summer of 2023, I was at Princeton University.
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.