email: akenglander@wisc.edu
I am a fourth year Math PhD student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I work on problems in algebraic statistics for biology with my advisor Professor Jose Rodriguez. I am currently spending the Fall of 2025 participating in a graduate research community at University of Hawaii at Manoa supported by the IFDS research assistantship. 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. 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.
AMS Spring Southeast Sectional Meeting - March 2026
Talk in Session on Applied and Computational Algebraic Geometry: TBA
Joint Mathematics Meeting - January 2026
Talk in Session on Numerical Algebraic Geometry: TBA
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
Matroids, Rigidity, and Algebraic Statistics - March 2025
Lightning Talk: Identifiability of Level-2 Phylogenetic Networks
CA+ (Commutative Algebra +) - March 2025
Turbo Talk: Identifiability of Level-2 Phylogenetic Networks
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation - July 2024
Short Communication: Towards Learning the Positive Real Discriminant of the Wnt Signaling Pathway