BIO
2023 - Assistant Professor, School of Computing, and Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Wyoming.
2023 - Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wyoming.
2017-2023 - Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, and Institute for AI and Data Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY. My group was funded by the NSF, Simons Foundation and Nakatani Foundation.
2015-2017 - Postdoc, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. I worked with Peter Mucha and Greg Forest on network-based multiscale modeling.
2013-2015 - Postdoc, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI). I participated in two groups on topological data analysis and social networks, and my research interfacing these fields was recognized by a UNC Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence.
2008-2013 - Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder. My thesis was titled "Spectral Theory for the Robustness and Dynamical Properties of Complex Networks" and was funded in part by the ARCS Foundation.
2003-2008 - Dual B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering (bioengineering) and Physics, University of Wyoming, Laramie. I conducted undergraduate research on microfluidics and obtained funding through the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) and Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium.