Kent State University | Kent, OH
Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics, 2023
Advisors: Artem Zvavitch; Matthieu Fradelizi (Université Gustave Eiffel)
Defended August 2023; degree awarded December 2023
Dissertation: "The Weighted Brunn-Minkowski Theory"
M.A. in Pure Mathematics, 2021
The Pennsylvania State University, Schreyer Honors College | Erie, PA
B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Mathematics, 2018
Minors in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Political Science
Honors thesis advisor: Daniel Galiffa
Honors thesis: “Theory, Methods and Applications of the Classical Hypergeometric Orthogonal Polynomial Sequences of Sheffer and Jacobi”
Research Programs, Schools & Visits
Research Programs & Schools
2024
Visiting researcher, Hausdorff Institute of Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, January - April; Trimester program
2023
Visiting researcher, Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France, January - July; (Chateaubriand Fellowship)
2022
Harmonic Analysis and Convexity Semester Program, ICERM, Brown University, September - December
Selected participant, UCI Summer School "Computational Learning Theory and Fourier Analysis", October
Selected participant, Graduate Summer School on “Metric Geometry and Geometric Analysis”, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, July; (MSRI supported)
2021
Selected participant, UCI Summer School "Discrete Analysis and Complexity of Quantum Algorithms", October
Research Visits
2026
University of Cincinnati, July (host: Michael Roysdon)
2025
Kent State University, November (host: Artem Zvavitch)
2024
Syracuse University, July (host: Yiming Zhao)
2022
Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France, May - July (host: Matthieu Fradelizi)
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, March - April (host: Semyon Alesker)
2021
Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France, October - December (host: Matthieu Fradelizi)
The 2021–2022 visits to Université Gustave Eiffel and Tel Aviv University were supported through NSF and US–Israel BSF grants of Artem Zvavitch.
Earlier Experience
U.S. Department of Energy Internship, Sandia National Laboratories, Summer 2017
IES Study Abroad Program, Berlin, Germany, Summer 2015
Fellowships & Research Support
2025-2028: NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (DMS-2502744), Carnegie Mellon University
2023-25: Postdoctoral fellowship, Fondation Sciences mathématiques de Paris
2023: Chateaubriand Fellowship, French Embassy in the United States
2019–2021: Graduate Assistantship, Kent State University
2018: Penn State Behrend Summer Research Grant for honors thesis research
2016: Penn State Behrend Summer Research Grant for exomoon research
2015: Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, U.S. Department of State
Selected Honors
Academic Excellence in Mathematics Award, Penn State Behrend, 2019
Academic Excellence in Physics Award, Penn State Behrend, 2018
Sigma Pi Sigma, national physics honor society, inducted 2018
Pi Mu Epsilon, national mathematics honor society, inducted 2016
Penn State Behrend Honors Program, completed 2016