I am a Visiting Scholar in the mathematics department at Duke University, where I was previously an NSF MPS Postdoctoral Fellow and a Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor.
My research focuses on the structure of low-dimensional manifolds and high-dimensional datasets, using tools such as Heegaard Floer homology, manifold learning, and spectral geometry.
I am always happy to chat about opportunities for collaboration.
I received my PhD in 2017 from Brandeis University under the direction of Danny Ruberman. Prior to my time at Duke, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany (working with Arunima Ray), and a joint postdoctoral appointment at CIRGET (UQAM) and McGill University (working with Liam Watson and Steve Boyer).
Participant: Pop-Up Institutes on Learning in Networks & Justice in AI
Dates: Fall 2026 – Spring 2027
Participant: Research Collaboration Workshop in Contact and Symplectic Geometry / Topology
Location: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA
Dates: August 24–28, 2026
Participant: Research Program on Knotted Surfaces in Four-Manifolds
Dates: June 28 – July 18, 2026 (Full-duration residency)
Project Co-Lead: Diffusion Maps for Redistricting & Graph Partitions
Dates: May 18 – July 10, 2026
Student Researchers: Jenny Chan (Duke, '26), Peakay Clifford (Duke, '28), Eileen Santana (Duke, '28), Felix Sesin (Duke, '29), Leonard Yang (Duke, '28)