See what I've been up to!
See what I've been up to!
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As a current PhD student, I am always looking for opportunities to collaborate and explore. Please let me know if you have questions about my educational or professional background, experiences, or passions.
Education
Education
September 2023 - Current
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
PhD in Mathematics
At UWM, I've taken foundational courses in Real and Complex Analysis, Algebra, Statistics, and Numerical Analysis. I have also been an Instructor of Record for the following courses: Math 92/102, Math 94, Math 98/108, Math 115- Precalculus, and Math 211- Calculus I.
September 2015 - May 2019
University of Minnesota Morris
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics
Here, I completed mathematical research under two professors relating to numerical analysis, differential equations, and coloring hypergraphs. I earned a 3.85 GPA while also participating in activities like Swing Club, Math Club, and Jazz Band.
Relevant Work
Relevant Work
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Assistant
September 2023 - Current
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
As an Instructor of Record, I have taught courses including Math 98/108 (Fall 2023), Math 94 (Spring 2024), Math 211- Calculus I (Summer 2024), Math 92/102 (Fall 2024 and Spring 2025), and Math 115- Precalculus (Fall 2025 and Spring 2026). Each semester's obligations includes lecturing, grading, and discussion for between fifty and sixty students.
Research Assistant: Discrete Language Analysis
Research Assistant: Discrete Language Analysis
January 2026 - June 2026
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
In the spring of 2026, I worked with Dr. Pamela Harris, Matt McClinton, and Joakim Jakovleski on the continuation of research performed by Pamela, Dr. Jen Elder (Missouri Western State University), and Anthony Simpson in 2024. We converted words in nine languages into sequences of digits (using alphabetical and other orderings), then studied combinatorial statistics on these sequences.
Research Assistant: Lean Coloring Hypergraphs and Related Problems
Research Assistant: Lean Coloring Hypergraphs and Related Problems
September 2018 - May 2019
University of Minnesota Morris
During the senior year of my undergraduate experience, I worked under Dr. Peh Ng to mathematically describe a new feature of hypergraphs called their lean number. This allowed us to generalize a type of knot coloring called tricolorability to a much larger class of objects, and it spawned several novel combinatorial problems.
June 2025 - July 2026
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Following my CIberCATSS experience, Dr. Pamela E. Harris and I consolidated our computational results. With her helpful guidance, I wrote Lean Coloring Hypergraphs, which you may find detailed in the Research & Projects section of my website, or on the ArXiv. This paper contains a full treatment of the topic, equivalent problems, and several general results.
Research Assistant: Differential Equations Models for Real-World Data
Research Assistant: Differential Equations Models for Real-World Data
June 2016 - September 2016
University of Minnesota Morris
During this summer research opportunity funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dr. Barry McQuarrie and I used Runge-Kutta-inspired methods in Mathematica to approximate solutions to several systems of differential equations that describe data, including the Lotka-Volterra equations and others.
Mentorship
Mentorship
July 2026
Undergraduate Research (UR@UWM)
During July 2026, I worked with Dr. Pamela E. Harris to oversee research conducted by Ms. Grace Givens and Ms. Sadie Baker, two incoming first-year students to UWM. We met daily in order to produce research relevant to parking functions and their variations. In addition to growing their mathematical prowess, we also introduced them to LaTeX, coding in Python, and several sights around campus. The program concluded with Grace and Sadie giving poster presentations on July 30 and 31.
Other Experiences
Other Experiences
June 2025
CIberCATSS
During the summer of 2025, I engaged in a research project at UWM funded through a grant dedicated to helping students use high-performance computation in their research. My project was a continuation of the research I performed under Dr. Peh Ng in 2018 - 2019. Under Dr. Phil Chang, Dr. Pamela E. Harris, and other professors at UWM, I used Python to calculate the lean number of thousands of hypergraphs. This helped us understand relationships between particular features of hypergraphs, which are popular and relevant objects in several disciplines.
September 2025 - Current
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) at UWM
SIAM is an international community of applied mathematicians. I serve as the Vice President of the SIAM chapter at UWM, which was revived by Temitope Comfort Iroko and Dr. Gabriella Pinter at UWM in 2025. My responsibilities included taking meeting notes, managing recruitment, and facilitating monthly speaking events. At UWM, we hosted several impressive speakers, including Dr. Michael Dairyko, Dr. Kolin Konjura, Dr. Kimberly Harry, Dr. Daniel Noelck, Dr. Daniel Gulbrandsen, and Dr. Matthew Petering. In May 2026, we received an official club charter from the university.
Invited Talks
Invited Talks
June 2027
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute- UWM
I will be holding a two-lecture-long seminar concerning the history, tools, and applications of mathematical graph coloring. The audience will be mainly curious adults that are not UWM students.
July 30, 2026
AWM Graduate School Panel
Several faculty of UWM and I participated in a panel led by the Association for Women in Mathematics chapter of UWM. Our audience consisted of mostly undergraduate mathematics researchers. I was selected to share my experiences applying for graduate school, navigating it, and planning beyond it.
July 30, 2026
AIM UP REU
I presented an overview of my lean coloring work to an audience of undergraduate mathematics researchers at the conclusion of their session.
June 26, 2026
Ponce REU Colloquium
Mr. Joakim Jakovleski and I virtually presented an introductory talk for our Discrete Language Analysis paper. The audience was primarily undergraduate students participating in the Ponce virtual REU. Our intention was threefold: 1. to explain our research and how it arose, 2. to allow these students to hear about how research in graduate school is conducted, and 3. to explain why graduate school may be right for them.
April 11, 2026
MAA-WI Sectional River Falls
At the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, I gave an overview of the Lean Coloring problem to an audience of professional mathematicians.
June 2025
CIberCATSS Conclusion Colloquium
After the eight-week CIberCATSS session, I presented the results of the research that I performed along with Dr. Pamela E. Harris and Dr. Philip Chang to an audience of graduate students in diverse fields and various academics.
Awards
Awards
May 2026
Morris & Miriam Marden Graduate Award in Mathematics
This award is provided by the late Morris and Miriam Marden family. It is awarded to graduate students with an outstanding paper written on a mathematical topic as deemed by a committee of faculty members. For this application, I submitted the Lean Coloring Hypergraphs paper detailed in the Research & Projects section of my website.
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