In the spring semester of 2024, I studied abroad at NYU Paris. I was fortunate enough to experience a variety of environments while I was there; I lived in La Défense (top photo),  a modern, business-oriented sector of Paris, but attended classes in the Latin Quartier, a much older neighborhood that's home to monuments like the Panthéon. The Louvre (middle photo) is also quite close to NYU Paris' academic center. After seeing my math professor in Paris start every class by twisting open a fresh 50cl of Citron Perrier, I picked up the habit and brought home a taste for it.

In the winter of 2024 - 2025, I participated in Hanyang University's International Winter School, hosted at their Seoul Campus. For three weeks I took a course focusing on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and participated in activities hosted by the program. The course included several field trips, including one to the Korea Territorial Development Museum (bottom photo).

In the Fall of 2024, I started a position as a teaching assistant for the third introductory programming course at NYU Tandon: Object-Oriented Programming in C++. This gave me the chance to work directly with students, and to refine and crystallize what I had learned in the course when I took it. I greatly appreciated the hands-on style of the job, as I enjoy teaching and working with students directly. I'm also glad to get experience teaching before my PhD, during which I will most likely also work as a teaching assistant.

In the same semester, I also began work as a GLASS Recruiter. I was lucky to be able to meet one-on-one with freshmen interested in the honors program and share my knowledge and advice. The experience has developed my communication skills in ways that other activities simply can't; in addition, I've gained more understanding of common problems facing freshmen at Tandon and the kinds of things it's helpful to reassure or remind them of. It's been rewarding to be able to share the lessons I learned and the things I wish I knew in their place.

In October of 2023 I attended IQT's conference in NYC. The conference consisted of three days of presentations, panels, and networking. My experience at IQT allowed me to hear about the newest developments in quantum technology from the leading voices in the field and expanded my understanding of and interest in the field.

In the summer of 2024 I participated in the NSF REU in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (part of campus shown in bottom photo). During the program, I contributed to a research project proposed and sponsored by Collins Aerospace. Specifically, I developed algorithms for updating the transitive closure of a weighted, directed graph and applied graph modeling to system reliability engineering. The work my collaborators and I did is currently being written as a manuscript which will be submitted for publication in 2025.