I am a graduate student at the University of Utah interested in geometric group theory.   As an undergrad/masters student at Utah State University, I was interested in algebraic geometry and mathematical physics and I studied elliptic fibrations on K3 surfaces with my advisor Andreas Malmendier.  After graduating at USU, I worked at the National Security Agency where I worked on designing improvements for an advanced number theoretic algorithm. Fall 2020, I started my PhD at the U.  During my second year, I took a reading course with Priyam Patel and since then I have been very excited about big mapping class groups! 

When I am not doing math, I enjoy hiking and adventuring with my two-year-old daughter Juniper and my wife Sierra.