My research is in Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics. Topics of my interest include Ramsey Theory, Probabilistic Method, Absorption Method, Hypergraph Container Method, and Differential Equations Method.
First (2017) and Second Prize (2015 and 2016) at the International Mathematical Competition for University Students;
Gold (2016) and Silver medal (2015) at the Ibero-American Math Competition for University Students;
Perfect Gold (2015, scoring 25 out of 25) and Silver medal (2016, second place) at the Ibero-American Math Olympiad for University Students;
Gold medal (2016) at the Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad.
E.T. Parker Memorial Scholarship Award (2021-22);
R. Ranga and Shantha Rao Scholarship Award (2023);
Susan C. Morisato IML Scholarship (Summer 2024);
James E. and Rebecca A. Wetzel Fellowship (2024-25);
Parker Memorial Fellowship (2025-26);
Schark Fellowship (2025-26).
IGL/Uni High (Summer 2021): Project Leader in “A project in Extremal Combinatorics”, mentoring the Uni High students Ekaterina Sakhartova, Elijah Song and Jeana To.
IGL (Spring 2022): Graduate Team Leader in the project “Rainbow Connection for Complete Multipartite Graphs”, with Faculty Mentor Sean English, and IGL Scholars Kareem Beniassa, Richard Bi, Shengan Wu and Pai Zheng.
Maximum determinant and permanent of sparse 0-1 matrices at the Graph Theory and Combinatorics Seminar, UIUC (10/05/2021).
New Lower Bounds For Essential Covers Of The Cube at the AMS Western Sectional Meeting at Salt Lake City, Utah (10/22/2022); at the MMMM 2022 in Ames, Iowa (09/10/2022), and at the Waterloo Algebraic Graph Theory Seminar (online).
Percolation on Minimal Triangles at the Graph Theory and Combinatorics Seminar, UIUC (09/13/2022), and Joint Mathematics Meetings at Boston, Massachusetts (01/07/2023).
Edge ordered graphs and perfect tilings at the Graduate Students Combinatorics Conference at Washington University in St. Louis (03/18/2023), and at the Graph Theory and Combinatorics Seminar, UIUC (04/18/2023).
Oriented cycles in randomly perturbed graphs at the AMS Central Sectional Meeting at Cincinnati, Ohio (04/15/2023) and Early-Career Conference in Combinatorics at UIUC (06/05/2024).