Welcome to my academic website,
I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Claremont Colleges (7Cs): Pitzer College and Avery Fellow at the Claremont Graduate University, located in the Los Angeles** County of Southern California.
My academic career has crossed paths with IAS Princeton, ETH Zürich, Northwestern, and UCLA following a Ph.D. under the supervision of Ko Honda of UCLA at the University of Southern California.
Here are my Brief CV and Current/Past Roles.
I am co-chairing the CCMS Mathematics Colloquium and co-organizing the Claremont Topology Seminar, feel free to reach out to suggest speakers and/or to volunteer to speak.
If you are interested in working with me as an M.Sc. or Ph.D. student, you should apply to Claremont Graduate University of the Claremont Colleges.
And evidently, I love purple.
*Pronounced BA-hahr Ah-Joo with all a's as in "far"**Tovaangar, Land of the TongvaSecond Research Collaboration Conference for WiSCon will take place at UCLA IPAM on August 24 - 28, 2026. Mark your calendars!
English translation of E. Giroux's seminal ICM paper in French is posted under the Research tab.
Research Directions in Symplectic Geometry and Contact Topology edited by Catherine Cannizzo, Dusa McDuff, Ziva Myer, Yu Pan, Lisa Traynor, and myself is now out.
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