I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University. Before this, I was a Ross Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside.
I received my PhD from Vanderbilt University under the supervision of Alexander Ol'shanskii.
I am currently on the job market!!!
Here is my CV
Research Interests
Generally speaking, my interests lie in geometric group theory, particularly relating to algorithmic and combinatorial group theory. Specific properties of groups that interest me are the complexity of the fundamental decision problems (Word Problem, Conjugacy Problem, and Isomorphism Problem), Dehn functions, Conjugator length functions, stable commutator lengths, and finiteness properties.
"Conjugator Lengths and Isoperimetric functions" (with Conan Gillis), 2026
"Conjugator Lengths in Finitely Presented Groups" (with Conan Gillis), 2026
Submitted
"Quasi-isometric Higman embeddings and the Dehn function", 2025
Submitted
"Malnormal Subgroups of Finitely Presented Groups", 2024
Submitted
"Quasilinear Emulation of Turing Machines by S-machines" (with Bogdan Chornomaz), 2023
Submitted
"Torsion Subgroups of Groups with Quadratic Dehn Function", 2021
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 313, 1589, 2025
"Torsion Subgroups of Groups with Cubic Dehn Function", 2019
"Uniqueness of Representation-Theoretic Hyperbolic Kac-Moody Groups over Z" (with Lisa Carbone)
Contemporary Mathematics 695 (2017), 51-64
Contact Info:
E-mail: fw294@cornell.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Mathematics
310 Malott Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Office: Malott 401
In Fall 2026, I am teaching Calculus II (Math 1120).
In Spring 2027, I will be teaching Introduction to Number Theory (Math 3320).