Brief Bio: I grew up in the suburbs of Orange County, California wherein I contributed to an agricultural stronghold getting eaten away by a suburban plague. Seeking refuge in the characterful college town of Davis, I completed a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics at the University of California, Davis. After college, I ventured to China and worked at SIAS University as a lecturer in History, Film, Mathematics, and Oral English for two years. I speak enough Chinese to get everybody to say, "Wow, you speak Chinese!" without testing my truely poor command of the language . I began a proper career in mathematics at the University of Arizona under the supervision of Professor Jan Wehr where I studied various energy functionals with random potentials related to quantum mechanics and completed my PhD in the spring of 2013 after six years of toil. As a sign that I may be taking laps in life, I returned to UC Davis, this time as a Krener Assistant Professor. I worked with Professor Bruno Nachtergaele on spectral gaps of quantum spin systems on higher dimensional lattices, making the usual math-physics rounds that many have tread before. Fresno State decided to break the cycle and hired me on as faculty where I do my best to bring math to the masses. I currently work on modified operators in quantum mechanics with Professor Douglas Singleton and the Unruh effect with Professor Gerardo Munoz. On a personal note, I follow Christ: this is both deeply relevant and remarkably irrelevant to my profession.