Summary
Chances are that, if you're on this page, you're most interested in my work as a researcher. So, I decided to start with the most important research! Below are some details on my academic journey in reverse-chronological order.
My PhD thesis was defended in October 2025, and is available on UWSpace and ResearchGate. An arXiv submission is also probable in the near future.
September 2021 marked the beginning of my PhD in Pure Math at UWaterloo, under the supervision of David McKinnon. My work focused on intersective polynomials, which are integral polynomials that have roots modulo every positive integer. The most interesting of these are the strongly intersective ones, which have no rational roots, thereby representing a local-global failure. Specifically, I worked on a classification of low-degree intersective polynomials. This involves algebraic number theory ideas like the splitting of prime ideals, in both number fields and finite extensions of the p-adics. This also interacts strongly with topics in group theory, such as coverings of finite groups by conjugates of proper subgroups. This research has lead me to implement several algorithms in SageMath and GAP for finding subdirect products of a finite direct product, checking if a finite group can be conjugate-covered by subgroups of given indices, and checking intersectivity at both ramified and unramified primes. See my GitHub for these algorithms.
I began my MMath in Pure Math at UWaterloo in 2020. My MMath research paper is entitled "Galois Actions on Smooth Projective Surfaces Up to Picard Rank Four" and was supervised by David McKinnon. You can read it on ResearchGate here.
In 2017 I started my Bachelor in Education, Secondary Education at Mount Saint Vincent University, specializing in teaching math and science. I completed a 6-week teaching practicum at Halifax West High School under the supervision of Colleen Owen. I excelled academically and professionally in this program, and in 2019 I was slated to begin a semester-length practicum with grade 7 and 8 classes, but I decided to leave secondary education to pursue grad school.
I completed by BSc Honours in Math at Dalhousie University in 2016. My honours project, entitled "Orbit Categories and a Demonstration of Equivalence", was supervised by Dorette Pronk. You can read it on ResearchGate here.