Curriculum Vitae

Education

Awards

• Graduate Women in Science Ruth Dickie Research Scholarship First-place award

• SIAM Travel Award to attend the 2026 SIAM Annual Meeting

• Days of Applied Nonlinearity and Complexity (DANOC) Best Student Presentation Award 2026 - Given to the student with the best presentation at the DANOC conference.

• Henry Schaerf Mathematics Graduate Awards 2025 - Given to a graduate student who has demonstrated promise in their academic work.

• AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award 2024 - For an exceptional student presentation at the AGU 2024 meeting.

• Outstanding Senior in Mathematics Award 2024 - UW La Crosse faculty chosen award given to an exceptional senior undergraduate in mathematics.

• Mathematics Honors Program 2023 - UW La Crosse honor for students with outstanding academic performance in their mathematics courses.

• Deans Distinguished Fellowship 2023 - UW La Crosse grant for summer research.

• JD and Marcia Wine Mathematics Award 2023 - UW La Crosse faculty chosen award for an outstanding Junior in mathematics

Grants

• I wrote a research proposal for the Graduate Women in Science Ruth Dickie Research Scholarship and was given a First-place award. I received this grant for our work identifying sources of bias in complex Earth systems models. 

• I wrote a research proposal with Dr. Nan Chen for the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP), as a supplement to Dr. Nan Chen's Army Research Office (ARO) research grant, and the AEOP project was awarded. I am a senior personnel member and a mentor on this proposal. We received this grant to support the summer research for one high school student and one undergraduate student in 2026.

• I wrote a research proposal with Dr. James Peirce for the Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance (IBA) Biomathematics Education with Applications and Methods Grant from Illinois State. We received the grant for summer field work collecting sand crabs on the coast of California in 2023.

Mentoring Experience

• Co-mentor an undergraduate student, Daria Sevriukova, from the Wisconsin Science and Computing Emerging Research Stars (WISCERS) program. The research topic is theoretical analysis and numerical simulations for sea ice floe collisions. The work has been done. Currently, I am serving as a co-mentor to help the student write a paper aiming to the journal of SIAM Undergraduate Research Online (SIURO), which is a web-based publication devoted to undergraduate research in applied and computational mathematics.

• Co-mentoring a high school and undergraduate student on a research project in the summer of 2026 for the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP), as a supplement to Dr. Nan Chen's Army Research Office (ARO) research grant. There will be two main topics covered in this project: (1) we will develop a practical model error detection and correction framework using causal inference and (2) we will conduct systematic comparisons between low order models for El Nino Southern Oscillation.

Media Highlights

• Bridging the Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Featured by the Winona State University news page March 2026

• Bridging Idealized and Operational Models to Improve the Earth System Simulations

Featured by the SIAM Dynamical System Web magazine October 2025

• AGU Oustanding Student Presentation Award

   Featured by UW-Madison  Department of Mathematics news page March 2025

Work Experience

• Conducting research for Dr. Nan Chen applying mathematics to problems in Atmospheric Science.

• Followed lesson plans and emphasized the crucial course topics.

• Managed groups of up to 35 students in discussions and lectures to facilitate learning.

• Encouraged creative thinking and problem solving by redirecting questions and asking leading questions, so students could understand the logic behind my answers.

• Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.

• Lead weekly activities and discussions about course content for groups of 3 to 35 undergraduate students.

• Promote the growth of independent learning skills by asking critical questions and showing them how to find the answers themselves.

• Work to build a supportive environment so students feel comfortable failing and view it as an opportunity to learn.

• Show students how math applies to their lives and interests.

• Tutored online in private sessions using detailed lesson plans.

• Worked with students from elementary school through high school at various stages of learning.

• Promoted interactive learning by using a combination of Socratic questioning and direct teaching.

• Cultivated a supportive and encouraging environment to promote excitement and combat fears of failure.

Technical Skills

Memberships

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), including  SIAG on Uncertainty Quantification and SIAG on Mathematics of Planet Earth

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)

• National Society of Leadership and Success (a leadership program that helps students achieve personal growth, career success, and empowers them to have a positive impact in their communities)