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I am a postdoc at New Mexico State University under the supervision of Keegan Boyle.
In May 2025, I earned a PhD from Michigan State University, where my advisors were Matthew Stoffregen and Efstratia Kalfagianni. You can view my thesis here. I am interested in low-dimensional topology and categorification, with an emphasis on Khovanov homology and Floer theory.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at IPAM for the long program on Quantum Topology, Character Varieties and Low-Dimensional Geometry.
I am on the academic job market! View my CV here.
Research
Myopic Tutte polynomials and Khovanov homology in ℝℙ3. With Keegan Boyle. 2026.
Plane Floer homology and the odd Khovanov homology of 2-knots. With Rithwik Susheel Vidyarthi and Chen Zhang. 2026.
Hochschild (co)homology for odd Khovanov arc algebras. 2025.
Belted sum decompositions of fully augmented links. With Porter Morgan, Brian Ransom, Cameron Ziegler, and Rolland Trapp. New York J. Math. 31 (2025), 1-42.
The Jones polynomial of an almost alternating link. With Adam Lowrance. New York J. Math. 23 (2017), 1611-1639.
Recent and upcoming activity
September–December 2026: based at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.
July 2026: gave a lightning talk at Advances in Geometric and Quantum Topology (a birthday conference for Effie!).
April 2026: attended the Michigan Topology Intercity Symposium.
March 2026: attended the Simons Collaboration on New Structures in Low-dimensional Topology.
January 2026: spoke at the JMM Special Session on Recent Progress in Quantum Topology.
About me
I work at the volunteer-run Fountain Theater, where I am realizing a childhood dream by moonlighting as a projectionist. In Ann Arbor, Elena (my wife) and I ran a microcinema out of our apartment; we have hopes to reopen one day.
I love baseball. Unfortunately, I am a big fan of the Detroit Tigers.
Elena and me at Festival de Cine in Todos Santos, Mexico.
Barrel jellyfish near ICTP in Trieste, Italy.
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