Education
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, 2020-present
PhD Candidate in Mathematics, 2020-present
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Advisor: Ngô Bảo Châu
Topics Exam: Invariant Distributions and p-adic Representation Theory
Columbia University
New York, NY, 2016-2020
BA in Mathematics, awarded May 2020
I.I Rabi Scholar
Senior Thesis: Relative Quasimaps in Modern Enumerative Geometry, Supervised by Andrei Okounkov
Prince of Wales Mini School
Vancouver, BC, CA, 2011-2016
Work Experience
Graduate Student Lecturer
University of Chicago, Fall 2022 to present, hiatus in 2023-24 and 2024-25 years due to NSF Fellowship
Independent lecturer for Math 131, Math 132, instructor for Math 153
College Fellow
University of Chicago, Fall 2021-Spring 2022
Abstract Linear Algebra with Prof. Danny Shi (Spring 2022)
Topology with Prof. Pedro Gaspar Marques (Winter 2022)
Complex Variables with Prof. Amie Wilkinson (Fall 2021)
REU and DRP Mentor
University of Chicago, Summer 2021-present
Supervised 13 undergraduate reading projects and papers
Teaching Assistant
Columbia University, Fall 2018-Summer 2020
Intro to Modern Analysis I (Summer 2020)
Linear Algebra (Spring 2020)
Linear Algebra (Fall 2019)
Complex Variables (Spring 2019)
Intro to Modern Analysis I (Fall 2018)
Independent Research in Geometric Representation Theory
Imperial College London, May 2019-August 2019
Supervisor: Travis Schedler
Classifying regular holonomic D-modules via the representation theory from the Beilinson-Bernstein correspondence, and generalizing the study of regular singularities to symplectic resolutions.
Tutor
Self-Employed, Sept 2018-Present
Math tutor for students of any age, primarily undergraduate calculus and high school math
TRIUMF High School Research Fellowship
TRIUMF Nuclear Laboratory, May 2016-August 2016
Supervisor: Annika Lennarz
One of three recipients of a fellowship to conduct nine weeks of research at TRIUMF, a nuclear research facility.Worked with DRAGON and TUDA nuclear mass spectrometers on full runs of each experiment.Supervised the runs of the experiments, learned C++ and Root to perform data analysis.
Tutor
Oxford Learning, January-August 2016
Taught reading, writing, and math to children ages 5-17.
Volunteer Researcher
University of British Columbia, Sept-Oct 2015
Worked with graduate students in Professor Sarah Burke‘s group at UBC‘s Laboratory for Atomic Imaging Research to optimize the tip etching process for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.
Deep River Science Academy
Chalk River Laboratories, June-August 2015
Supervisor: Robert Bowden
Conducted novel research in two-phase fluid flow for applications to CANDU nuclear reactors in the thermalhydraulics branch at Chalk River Laboratories.
Prince of Wales Science Mentorship
University of British Columbia, February-March 2014
Supervisor: Douglas Scott
Analysis on data from the cosmic microwave background collected by ESA's Planck Satellite. Self-taught Python coding and learned about cosmology.
Leadership and Service
University of Chicago Association for Women in Mathematics
President (June 2022 - June 2023)
Treasurer (June 2021 - June 2022)
UChicago Math Department Open House
Organizer (Feb 2022)
UChicago Graduate Student Seminar (a.k.a the Pizza Seminar)
Organizer (Sept 2021-June 2022)
UChicago Math Graduate Student Orientation
Organizer (August 2021-September 2021)
Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal
Senior Advisor (May 2019- 2020)
President (May 2018- May 2019)
Director of Events (May 2017-2018)
Editor (September 2016-May 2017)
Columbia Undergraduate Mathematics Society
Executive Board Member (January 2019- 2020)
Intro to Proofs Workshop Organizer (April 2019- October 2019)
Member (September 2016)
Speaker (June 2018, November 2018, March 2019, October 2019)
Columbia/Barnard Association for Women in Mathematics
President (April 2019-Spring 2020)
Director of Mentorship (June 2018- May 2019)
Member (Fall 2016- Spring 2020)
Columbia Undergraduate Recruitment Committee
Tour Guide (December 2017- 2019)
Student Interviewer (November 2018- 2021)
Science Ambassador (November 2018- 2019)
Columbia Splash
Teacher (March 2018- 2020)
Presentations and Publications
UChicago Topics Exam
Wrote a survey paper and presented to a committee of faculty. Discussed motivation, locally compact totally disconnected spaces, spaces of distributions, examples of invariant distributions given an action of an algebraic group on a td-space, and a result by Gelfand and Kazhdan from Representations of the Group GL(n,k) where k is a Local Field.
Columbia AWM Reading Groups in Representation Theory
Lead two workshops during spring-summer 2020, one on an introduction to the representation theory of finite groups and another on representation theory of Lie Groups and Lie algebras.
Introduction to Proofs: Wrote and gave a 4-session workshop introducing students new to proof-based mathematics to mathematical logic, different types of proofs, and other good practices in mathematics courses (such as writing LaTeX, tips for problem sets, etc.)
Columbia Undergraduate Math Society Speaker
Geometric Representation Theory, or Why Everything is a Sheaf (October 2019)
Dr Drinfeld and Jimbo, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Quantum Groups (March 2019)
Categorification (November 2018)
On: A New Approach to the Representation Theory of Symmetric Groups by Vershik and Okounkov (June 2018)
Association for Women in Mathematics
Presentation giving an overview of representation theory (October 2019)
Rabi Scholars Symposium
Poster presentation (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
Park City Mathematics Institute
Experimental Math Lab: Presented work done in collaboration with four other students and Professor Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford) in investigating the geometry of nodal domains (June 2018)
Columbia Splash
Lecture Course: “Counterexamples That Will Ruin Your Faith in Calculus” (March 2018)
TRIUMF
Coauthor of “First inverse kinematics measurement of key resonances in the 22Ne(p,γ)23Na reaction at stellar temperatures”, (arXiv:1910.00791)
Presenter at TRIUMF poster session (Summer 2016)
Deep River Science Academy
Poster session, presentation, research report (Summer 2015)
Prince of Wales Mentorship Program
Presentation and research report on findings from data analysis on Planck data (May 2014)
Awards and Honors
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program: Awarded in April 2020 for Fall 2020-Spring 2026
Columbia University Dean's List: Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Graduation Program Examinations Scholarship: Top 20 students in British Columbia (2016)
British Columbia District/Authority Scholarship for International Languages (2016)
Prince of Wales High School Awards: 16 subject-related awards, including math, physics,
chemistry, French, Spanish, English, and home economics; Calculus Award (2016)
TRIUMF High School Fellowship: recipient, 2016
Deep River Science Academy: Dave Walker Award for Excellence in Academics and Extracurriculars (highest award)
SAT General exam: 2400
Relevant Skills
Computer Languages: Python, LaTeX, C++, HTML/CSS, SageMath
Languages: English (Native), French (C1), German (A2/B1), Spanish (dormant proficiency)