pdf available - last updated December 1, 2025
pdf available - last updated December 1, 2025
Education:
(Spring 2026) B.S. Mathematics with honors, Texas A&M University
(Fall 2026 - present) Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Papers and preprints:
Interlacing of zeros of odd period polynomials (with G. Ko and H. Xue), J. Math. Anal. Appl. 543 (2025), no. 2, Paper No. 128976, 25 pp. [pdf]
Zeros of even and odd period polynomials (with G. Ko, E. Ross and H. Xue), J. Math. Anal. Appl. 556 (2026), no. 1, Paper No. 130189, 22 pp. [pdf]
The height function of a sparse collection: a Bellman function approach (with S. Aggarwal, S. Hernandez, and I. Holmes Fay), submitted, 2025. [arxiv]
Talks and presentations:
The height function of a sparse collection: a Bellman function approach, [oral]; Joint Mathematics Meeting 2026, Spring 2026
The height function of a sparse collection: a Bellman function approach, [poster]; TJAS Undergraduate Research Showcase, Fall 2025
The height function of a sparse collection: a Bellman function approach, [poster]; 2025 Mathematics Undergraduate Research Symposium, Fall 2025
Zeros of period polynomials (with G. Ko), [oral]; Joint Mathematics Meeting 2025, Spring 2025
Interlacing of zeros of odd period polynomials (with G. Ko), [poster]; Joint Mathematics Meeting 2025, Spring 2025
Zeros of period polynomials, [poster]; Texas A&M Undergraduate Research Symposium, Fall 2024
Interlacing of zeros of odd period polynomials (with G. Ko), [poster]; Clemson Creative Inquiry Program and REU, Summer 2024
The Bellman function for heights of sparse collections (with S. Aggarwal and S. Hernandez), [poster & oral]; UH-LSU-TAMU Undergraduate Mathematics Research Conference, Spring 2024
Primes and Their Gaps (mentor: Y. Hsieh), [oral]; Texas A&M Directed Reading Program, Fall 2023
Volunteering and outreach:
Southwood Valley Elementary School S.T.E.A.M. Night (Apr. 2026)
Night at the Zach (Mar. 2026)
Volunteer for the Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) with UTHealth McGovern Medical School (Mar. 2026)
Co-President of the TAMU Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics with Bessie Simpson (Spring 2026)
Volunteer for the annual Texas A&M Derivative Bee (Oct. 2025)
Howdy Week: Pi Mu Epsilon and Math Club Booth (Aug. 2025)
SEE-Math Senior Counselor and Instructor (Jul. 2025)
Undergraduate panelist at Texas A&M's CTE Graduate Workshop (May 2025)
Arithmagons with Rock Prairie Elementary School's 2nd graders (Feb. 2025)
Volunteer for the annual Texas A&M Integral Bee (Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
Texas A&M's Math Circle (2024-present)
Pi Mu Epsilon and Texas A&M Math Club Outreach Officer (2023 - 2024)
River Bend Elementary School S.T.E.A.M. Night (Oct. 2023, Feb. 2024)
Rock Prairie Elementary School S.T.E.A.M. Night (Oct. 2023, Feb. 2024)
Greens Prairie Elementary School S.T.E.A.M. Night (Oct. 2023)
Math Talk at College Station High School (Oct. 2023)
Math Talk at A&M Consolidated Middle School (Apr. 2023)
Volunteered at and helped organize the annual Math and Stats Fair (Spring 2023 - 2026)
Started the Collatz Conjecture talk with John Weeks and Joshua Im in Spring 2025
Started the math-based Magic Booth with John Weeks in Spring 2024
Here is a video of card trick Nine-Card Speller that we filmed to advertise for the 2024 Math and Stats Fair!
Volunteer for the annual Physics and Engineering Festival (Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2026)
Volunteer for the annual Houston Science Festival (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
Proctor and grader for the Texas A&M High School Mathematics Contest (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
Proctor for the Texas Science Olympiad (Spring 2023)
Volunteer with AGs REACH (Spring 2023)
Mechanic with FreeWheels Houston (Fall 2021)
Grants and awards:
Devaney Graduate Fellowship Award (Fall 2026 - Spring 2027)
Distinguished Community Educator Certificate for work with CAPS (Spring 2026)
Classroom Excellence Award for Modern Algebra II (Spring 2025)
Texas A&M Dean’s List Honor Roll (Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
Texas A&M Dean’s List Distinguished Students (Fall 2024)
Conferences and workshops:
Summer Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar (SUMIRFAS) (Summer 2025)
Texas Summer School in Mathematical Physics (Summer 2025)
Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (Summer 2025)
Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference (Summer 2025)
CIMAT: Intersections in Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Probability (Fall 2023)
Teaching and other experience:
TA for Math 171: Calculus I (Fall 2023)
Web design, site maintenance, and math tutor with the Rice University School Mathematics Project (2021-2022)