About Me

I was born and raised in Springfield, MA. In 2007, I enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, where I participated in the submatriculation program, working toward a B.A. and M.A. simultaneously. In the summer of 2009, I participated in the Mount Holyoke REU directed by Prof. Jessica Sidman — my first time conducting mathematical research.

In 2011, I moved to Berkeley to pursue my Ph.D. I signed on with my advisor Bernd Sturmfels in my second year, and I received my Ph.D. in 2015 after submitting my thesis Algebraic Matroids in Applications.

After graduating from Berkeley, I moved to Penn State for a 6-month period to continue neural codes research as a postdoc with Prof. Vladimir Itskov. Between January 2016 and August 2018, I was a postdoc in the Song Lab, first at Penn as a Simons Math+X Postdoctoral Fellow, then at U.C. Berkeley. In August 2018, I began an assistant professor position in the Department of Mathematics at Florida Atlantic University.

Education

• May 2015 Ph.D. Mathematics University of California, Berkeley Advisor: Bernd Sturmfels
  Thesis: Algebraic Matroids in Applications
• May 2011 M.A. Mathematics University of Pennsylvania Thesis: Graded Betti Numbers of Graph Curves.
  Completed jointly with the B.A. under the submatriculation program at Penn.
• Dec 2010 B.A. Mathematics University of Pennsylvania

Positions

• Aug 2018 – present Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics, Florida Atlantic University
• Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• Jan 2016 – Aug 2017 Simons Math+X Postdoctoral Fellow Departments of Mathematics & Biology, University of Pennsylvania
• Jun 2015 – Dec 2015 Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Mathematics, Penn State University