Research

I am interested in model theory and its interactions with group theory, topological dynamics, and combinatorics, with a particular focus on the local NIP setting.

Selected Talks 

• Local Revised Ellis Group Conjecture

BLAST 2026, Baylor University, May 18, 2026

• Randomizations of First-Order Structures

Louise Hay Logic Seminar, University of Illinois at Chicago, February 25, 2026

• Ellis Group Conjecture

Louise Hay Logic Seminar, University of Illinois at Chicago,  October 29, 2025

• Local NIP Theory

Directed Reading Program Türkiye, Virtual,  July 29, 2025

• NIP Theories: A Brief Overview 

Louise Hay Logic Seminar, University of Illinois at Chicago, March 31, 2025

• Large NIP Subsets of Groups

Louise Hay Logic Seminar, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 23, 2024

Conferences Attended

• XXI Simposio Latinoamericano de Lógica Matemática

Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia,  June 1-5, 2026

• BLAST 2026

Baylor University, Waco, TX,  May 18-21, 2026

• The 26th Graduate Student Conference in Logic 

University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL,  April 25-26, 2026

• Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference 2026

University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 27-29, 2026

• Model Theory at Notre Dame in Honor of Zoé Chatzidakis

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN,  October 24-26, 2025

• Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2025

InterContinental Miami, Miami, FL,  July 21-25, 2025

•  Istanbul Model Theory Days I

Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey , May 17-20, 2025

• North American Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM , May 13-16, 2025

• The 25th Graduate Student Conference in Logic

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, April 26-27, 2025

• 10th Lake Michigan Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory

The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL , April 5-6, 2025

• Midwest Computability Seminar

The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL ,  April 1, 2025

• Midwest Computability Seminar

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL ,  November 12, 2024

• Summer School: Additive Combinatorics

Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary,  June 10-14, 2024

•  North American Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic

Iowa State University, Ames, IA, May 14-17, 2024

• Midwest Model Theory Seminar, Charlie Steinhorn's 70th birthday

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 14-16, 2022