Welcome!

I am a Marshall Stone Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Before that, I was a J.L Doob Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before that, I was a graduate student at the Ohio State University. I received my PhD from Ohio State in Spring 2023, advised by Dave Anderson.

Email: icavey at umass dot edu

My research interests are in algebraic geometry and combinatorics. I like to think about polytopes associated to algebraic varieties using toric geometry or more generally Newton-Okounkov bodies. I particularly enjoy thinking the combinatorial aspects of moduli spaces like Grassmanians, flag varieties, Hilbert schemes of points, and moduli spaces of stable curves.

My CV can be found here (last updated November 2025).

While at the University of Illinois, I co-organized the University of Illinois Algebra-Geometry-Combinatorics Seminar. I was also a co-organizer of the Workshop on Combinatorics and Geometry of Moduli of Curves (September 20-21, 2025) and the Early-Career Conference in Combinatorics (June 3-7, 2024).