email: akenglander@wisc.edu
I am a fourth year Math PhD student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I work on problems in mathematical biology using tools from computational math, machine learning and applied algebra. My PhD advisor is Professor Jose Rodriguez. Last fall I participating in a graduate research community at University of Hawaii at Manoa, while supported by the IFDS research assistantship for the 2025-26 academic year. I spent the fall of 2024 at ICERM at Brown University. In the fall of 2023 I was a visiting graduate researcher at IPAM at UCLA while supported by the Elizabeth Hirschfelder fund. Before my PhD, I completed my Bachelors in Electrical Engineering at Boston University and worked as an Engineer for four years in between my Bachelors and PhD while taking Math courses.
I'll be in Europe in the end of June and beginning of July and I'm looking to extend my trip!
I plan on graduating May 2027!
SIAM Annual Meeting - Planned July 2026
Talk in mini symposium on Algebraic Statistics: TBA
Co-organizing mini symposium on Algebraic Methods for Phylogenetic Inference with Max Hill and Colby Long
Uniting Phylogenetics Network Research - Planned June/July 2026
Lightning Talk: TBA
Chemical Reaction Network in Hawaii - Planned May 2026
Poster: The Allee Effect: A Case Study of Numerical Methods
Meeting on Applied Algebraic Geometry - Planned April 2026
Poster: TBA
AMS Spring Southeast Sectional Meeting - March 2026
Talk in Session on Applied and Computational Algebraic Geometry: Generic Identifiability for Level-2 Phylogenetic Networks
Joint Mathematics Meeting - January 2026
Talk in Session on Numerical Algebraic Geometry: Identifying Level-2 Phylogenetic Networks: Numerical Next Steps
SIAM Applied Algebraic Geometry - July 2025
Talk in Session on Discriminants in the Sciences: Discriminants in Evolutionary Biology
New Perspectives on Discriminants and Applications - June 2025
Workshop on the Applications of Commutative Algebra - May 2025