Members
Graduate student at IU
Graduate student at IU
Graduate student at IU
Papers:
Simons/Zorn Postdoc at IU
(2025 - Now)
Visiting researcher at IU
(October - November 2023)
Papers:
Simons/Zorn Postdoc at IU
(2022 - Now)
Papers:
On bicrossed product of fusion categories and exact factorizations
Relation between bicrossed products and crossed extensions of fusion categories
Karthik Prasad
MIT PRIMES USA 2025
Christina Wang
MIT PRIMES USA 2025
Nick Zhang
MIT PRIMES USA 2025
Kabir Shah
Rohan Das
High School Senior Project 2025
MIT PRIMES USA 2024
Awards:
2025 Regeneron STS Scholar (top 300 students).
Emeritus members
NSF postdoc/Zorn IU postdoc
2019 - 2022
Next Position: Simons Postdoc at UCB mentored by Constantin Teleman and Nicolai Reshetikhin
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Purdue University
Papers:
PhD student IU
Graduation: July 2022
2023 IU Outstanding Thesis Award
Next Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at OSU mentored by David Penneys
Papers
Akshaya Chakravarthy
MIT PRIMES USA 2023
Papers:
On modular categories with Frobenius-Perron dimension congruent to 2 modulo 4 . To appear in PAMS
Awards:
William Gvozdjak
MIT PRIMES USA 2023
Papers:
Classification of low-rank odd-dimensional modular categories. To appear in the Journal of Algebra, a Special Issue dedicated to the memory of Georgia Benkart.
Awards:
2024 Regeneron STS Scholar (top 300 students).
MIT PRIMES USA 2023
Papers:
Twisted homogeneous racks over the alternating groups. To appear in Contemporary Math.
Awards:
2024 Regeneron STS Scholar (top 300 students).
2024 Regeneron ISEF (4th Grand Award in Math).
NSA Research Directorate Award ’24 (2nd Award in Math).
MIT PRIMES USA 2022
Next Position: AB Mathematics at Harvard University
Awards:
AMS for annual awards at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair 2023 (third award).
Mu Alpha Theta, National High School and Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society 2023 (2nd Award in Math).
Regeneron Science Talent Search Finalist 2023 (top 40 students). See more about Sophie here
2023 Emerging Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduate Women
Awards:
Undergraduate first place on the 2024 CEWIT (IU) Poster Competition (Physical & Mathematical Science category)
Honorable Mention in the Poster category at the 2024 Indiana University Undergraduate Research Conference
Annabel Brinker
2021 Emerging Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduate Women
Awards:
4th Annual Women’s Research Hackathon - CEWIT 2022.
Undergraduate first place on the 2022 CEWIT (IU) Poster Competition (Physical & Mathematical Science category)
Dalton Sconce
REU 2021 IU
Next Position: PhD student at IU
Papers
Michael Johnson
Undergraduate research,
Spring 2020, IU
Next Position: Master of Arts for Teachers (M.A.T.) at IU
REU 2020 IU
Next Position: PhD student, University of Southern California, mentored by Aaron Lauda
Papers:
Bachelor Thesis Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) March 2019.
Next Position: PhD student, University of Oregon, mentored by Victor Ostrik
Papers:
In the back, from left to right:
Kathleen Lee
Next Position: PhD student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Next Position: Master's student at Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Assistant: Paul Gustafson
Next Position: Lead Solidity Engineering at Element
In the front, from left to right:
Next Position: Physics PhD student at University of California at Santa Barbara
me and
Assistant: Ola Sobieska
Undergraduate research 2017-2018,
Texas A&M University
Next Position: Statistics PhD student at
Texas A&M University
Undergraduate research 2016-2017,
Texas A&M University
Next Position: Test engineer en NXP Semiconductors