Success is peace of mind... in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
Coach John Robert Wooden
Postdocs.
Matthew Hamil (2025 - 2026).
Haihan Wu (2024 - 2026).
PhD Students.
Hong Joo Ryoo, Department of Physics and Astronomy, doctoral student, 2025-2030, tentative.
Research Students.
Weixi Chen, pure mathematics undergraduate research student, 2025-2026.
Catherine (Catie) Lillja, pure mathematics undergraduate research student, 2024-2026.
Nicolas Rugo, pure mathematics undergraduate research student, 2024-2026.
Fabian Espinoza, pure mathematics undergraduate research student, 2024-2025.
Chenzhuo Li, applied mathematics master research student, 2024-2025.
Tomas Mejia Gomez, pure mathematics doctoral student (part of research group), 2024-2025.
Graduate Board Oral (GBO) Exam, Thesis Proposal.
Nicholas Pinto (PhD), Probing Production-Side Effective Field Theory Couplings in Vector-Higgs Production at the Large Hadron Collider, Physics and Astronomy, examiner, 2025-2026.
Ezra Sukay (PhD), The Distribution of Metals in Galaxies 10 Billion Years Ago And Beyond, Physics and Astronomy, alternate examiner, 2024-2025.
Graduate Board Oral (GBO) Exam, Final Defense.
Tomas Mejia Gomez (PhD), Khovanov-Rozansky homologies, Bott-Samelson spaces and twisted cohomology, Mathematics, examiner/committee, 2024-2025.
Mufaro Chitoto (PhD), Symmetries in Quantum Field Theories, Physics and Astronomy, alternate examiner, 2024-2025.
Keduse Worku (PhD), Unveiling Cosmic Dawn, Physics and Astronomy, alternate examiner, 2024-2025.
Research Student.
Paul Zimmer, pure mathematics research student, 2020-2021.
Fall 2021 research poster
Spring 2021 research slides
Spring 2021 research poster
Academic Advisees.
Raymond Cecere, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
Juan Figuera-Parra, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
Tyler Jordan, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
Brian O'Leary, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
Lauren White, academic advisee, 2023-2024.
William Everton, academic advisee, 2022-2024.
Isabella Leggett, academic advisee, 2022-2024.
Graham Rose, academic advisee, 2022-2024.
Jaxon Foertsch, academic advisee, 2021-2024.
Michael Heller, academic advisee, 2021-2024.
Wesley Kim, academic advisee, 2021-2024.
Brendan Munnelly, academic advisee, 2021-2024.
John Meagher, academic advisee, 2020-2024.
MaryClare Oliver, academic advisee, 2019-2024.
Mitchell Waters, academic advisee, 2019-2024.
Jin Heung Yoo, academic advisee, 2019-2024.
Andrew Romero, academic advisee, 2020-2023.
Jamie Romo, academic advisee, 2020-2023.
Isabelle Thornburg, academic advisee, 2020-2022.
Margaret Babbitt, academic advisee, 2019-2021.
Plebe (Freshmen) Advisees.
Samantha (Sam) Bollinger, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Titan Case, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Victoria (Tori) DiCarlo, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Benjamin Grieb, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Haley Harris, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Aidan Hogan, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Matthew Lexa, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Erin Nicastro, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Parvathi Shanker, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Corinna (Cora) Skidmore, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Ronnell (RJ) Spears, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
James Thomas, academic advisee, 2021-2022.
Honors Senior Thesis (Reader).
Ben Rainear, Spring 2022, "Integers represented by ternary quadratic forms".
MGSP Advisees (peer tutoring).
Addison (Addy) Schofield, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Jan - May 2024.
Loren Steinberg, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Jan - May 2024.
Loren Steinberg, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Aug - Dec 2023.
Jonathan Briggs, MGSP (peer tutor for SM121 Calculus I) advisee, Aug - Dec 2023.
Thomas Jennings, MGSP (peer tutor for SM121 Calculus I) advisee, Aug - Dec 2023.
Daniel Mullan, MGSP (peer tutor for SM212 Differential Equations) advisee, Jan - May 2023.
Soleil Xie, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Jan - May 2023.
Karl Florida, MGSP (peer tutor for SM212 Differential Equations) advisee, Aug - Dec 2022.
Brett Bonin, MGSP (peer tutor for SM208 Data Science) advisee, Jan - May 2022.
Sebastian Martin, MGSP (peer tutor for SM221, SM221P, and SM223 Vector Calculus III, Vector Calculus III for freshmen, Calculus III) advisee, Aug - Dec 2021.
Columbia University Mentee.
Zachary Adam Lihn, pure mathematics undergraduate student, 2022-2025.
Goldwater Scholar, 2025-2030.
PhD candidate in pure mathematics, Harvard University, 2025-2030.
Remy Kaldawy, pure mathematics undergraduate student, 2022-2024.
University of Georgia Mentee.
Joseph (Joe) Lang, pure mathematics undergraduate student, 2022-2023.
Research Students.
Anton Nelson, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, with Honors, 2019.
Pure mathematics research student, 2017-2018.
Research in invariants of knot theory using skein relations and Chern-Simons theory.
Nicolette (Nikki) Marie Jimenez, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, with Honors, 2016-2017.
Thesis: Constructing symplectic varieties.
Research Assistant and Graduate Program, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, declined.
Federal advisory consultant, analytics division, Deloitte, Washington D.C., 2017-2023.
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, MBA, 2023-2025.
Lisa Marie Jones, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science, with Honors, 2015-2016.
One course away from Bachelor of Science in Physics, with Honors (refused to take a certain one course).
Thesis: On invariants and semi-invariants of filtered quiver representations of k-Kronecker and n-Jordan quivers.
2016 Winston Churchill Scholar (page 9), Master in Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 2016-2017.
U.S. Army, Operational Cyber Unit, Washington D.C., 2017-2019.
National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship (6 years), 2016-2022.
Awarded but declined NSA Research Fellowship, 2016-2018.
Awarded but declined DARPA Graduate Fellowship, 2016-2018.
2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellow (3 years), Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2019-2022.