During my time at the University of Chicago, I conducted research in Geometric Group Theory under the advisement of Benson Farb, and completed my Ph.D. in just over three years- well ahead of the typical five-year timeline. I taught undergraduate courses, served as a teaching assistant, and mentored students through programs such as UChicago's Directed Reading Program and Research Experience for Undergraduates. I also co-designed and co-taught How Chance Changes the World, a course for the Collegiate Scholars Program- an initiative supporting students from Chicago Public Schools. The course explored the role of probability in topics like social justice, generative AI, and machine learning, blending mathematics with real-world relevance.

As an undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara, I studied mathematics through the College of Creative Studies (CCS)- a unique, accelerated academic program designed for students pursuing original work in their field. Within this rigorous environment, I completed 13 graduate-level math courses and actively sought out opportunities beyond the classroom. I co-founded UCSB’s chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics and helped launch POWERS, a math outreach event for female high school students that continues to run annually in collaboration with the AWM chapter. I participated in multiple summer research programs, including one at Brown University’s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM).