our students

Casandra Monroe

I'm a 3rd year math graduate student, and I love math that involves pictures. Lately, I've been thinking about knot theory and geometry and how they're related. When I'm not drawing math pictures, I also just draw regular pictures! I love watching movies with friends, playing video games, and trying to replicate the Alamo Drafthouse Fried Chicken Sandwich at home. I have nearly succeeded!

Nicolas Reyes

I am a lecturer in the math department. I recieved my PhD from UT in 2019 under the direction of Dr. Andrew Blumberg. My research focused on homotopy theory and derived algebraic geometry, including the geometry of differential graded categories. Until the quarantine I enjoyed playing music around town in a couple projects, and hosting a radio show on KVRX. Now that I am staying home I've started tutoring my cat Crumples in math.

Luis Torres

I'm a 2nd year math graduate student at UT Austin, and I'm interested in geometry and topology in low-dimensions. Outside of math, I like hiking, rock climbing, and making and listening to music. I played guitar and keys for Dead Monks Club before moving to Austin, and I also make music under the name fauna flora sometimes.


Dan Weser

I am a 4th year math graduate student, and I study geometric analysis, which lies at the intersection of differential geometry and analysis (more specifically differential equations). I love movies, reading, rock climbing, and being outdoors. I'm currently trying to adopt a dog.

Ryan Chatterjee

I'm a third year undergrad math major and president of the UT Math Club! My favorite math is number theory, dynamics and representation theory. Besides math, I like learning about linguistics, playing guitar, and improving my Tetris game. I'm also half Bengali and can sorta speak it!

Kaelen Saythongkham

I’m a 3rd year undergraduate math student at The University of Texas at Austin, and I am interested in pursuing data science/analytics. In my free time, I enjoy skating, biking, listening to music, and coding!

Yangxinyu Xie

I’m a 4th year undergraduate math student. I love combinatorics, linear algebra and statistics! I worked on small problems about tropical commuting matrices. Now I focus on matrix rigidity and modeling Austin EMS Call distribution. In my free time, I enjoy reading and cooking very much!