I am a mathematician specializing in stochastic processes and their applications, especially to biology. My research interests span a broad range of topics in probability theory, including diffusion processes, branching and exchangeable particle systems, and random measure-valued processes.
Here we see a generalization of the Kingman x-paintbox that describes the limiting object of coalescing random walks in structured populations (see here).
I am presently thinking about various families of random walks in random environments that arise in the study of population genetics. In particular, I wish to understand how genetic variation across the genome is limited by the existence of the organismal pedigree as a latent variable constricting the evolution of gene genealogies.
"Quenched coalescent for diploid population models with selfing and overlapping generations" with Louis Wai-Tong Fan and John Wakeley.
"Gene genealogies in a diploid Moran model with selfing conditional on its pedigree" with Wai-Tong (Louis) Fan and John Wakeley. Theoretical Population Biology. Volume 165, October 2025, Pages 29-44.
I am also interested in various aspects of understanding the fitness landscape for biological populations. In the simplest sense, this landscape is modeled by solutions to the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskuonov (FKPP) equation. I have been working on extending classical results on equations of KPP type to other geometric domains:
"Traveling wave profiles and asymptotics for equations of KPP type in warped product spaces'" (in preparation) with Louis Wai-Tong Fan
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There are no unlinked loci: how pedigrees couple neutral genealogies across the genome, Population Genetics Seminar, UChicago, February 2026
Quenched limits for the coalescent of a diploid exchangeable population model with overlapping generations, Ph.D. Defense, IUB, July 2025
A modern perspective on coalescent theory and multi-locus population genetics, Population Genetics and Computational Biology Seminar, UChicago, December 2024