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.
Recent Publications and Preprints:
"Quasi-isometric Higman embeddings and the Dehn function", 2025
"Malnormal Subgroups of Finitely Presented Groups", 2024
"Quasilinear Emulation of Turing Machines by S-machines" (with Bogdan Chornomaz), 2023
Journal of Combinatorial Algebra, in revision
"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
Teaching:
In Fall 2025, I am teaching Calculus I (Math 1110).