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About Me

I am originally from Princeton, New Jersey, and found my way to higher levels of mathematics by reading about Nash's Theorem in an economics class. I've bounced around a lot academically:

In completing my doctorate, I have been extremely fortunate to have received support from the Southern California Geometry and Topology Center. In the past, I have received the John M. Krenkel Fellowship, the Rena Gurley Archibald High Scholarship Prize (awarded to the valedictorians of Pomona College), the Phi Beta Kappa Award, and the Bruce Jay Levy & Llewellyn Bixby Mathematics Prizes.

Outside of mathematics, I love playing Go, dancing (breakin', bhangra, bollywood, and hip-hop), listening to music, watching movies, and reading. I also have a sporadically updated YouTube series In My Room.

In my youth, I was lucky to have participated in some really formative programs: German-American Partnership Program and High School Diplomats, where I was a high school exchange student to Germany and Japan, respectively, between 2015 and 2016.

Research

With the interest of learning $p$-adic Hodge theory, I am currently completing reading in algebraic geometry, Hodge theory, complex geometry, and arithmetic topology.

Papers and Preprints

1. Extremal hypergraphs for the Erdos-Selfridge theorem using labelings of binary trees with Kathryn Grossmann, Dongming (Merrick) Hua, Benjamin Pagano, Hannah Sheats, Eric Sundberg, Ann Thompson. (DOI)

Talks, Conferences, and Travel

Teaching

I developed a deep passion for educating at the age of fifteen, when I was first hired to teach elementary mathematics classes at a local tutoring center in New Jersey. Since then, teaching has become a crucial part of my journey in mathematics, as it has been a channel to share the excitement and warmth of my own learning.

In addition to formal teaching responsibilities, I have taken on various volunteer roles to contribute to learning communities. Most recently, I have been serving as a mentor and organizer for the UC Irvine Directed Reading Program:

Winter 2024: Introduction to Topology

James Bird, Cullen Kurzenknabe, Ahoora Tamizifar, Matthew Eimers, Matthew Blake

Fall 2024: Introduction to Topology

Winter 2025: Learning Community in Algebraic Topology

Cullen Kurzenknabe, Kaylee Seojin Lee Kim, Bryan Jose Silva, Sasha Lin, Isabelle Nhi Tran.

While at Pomona College, I also served as the only mathematics student at the Quantitative Skills Center, offering extra course support in any mathematics course offerred at the Claremont Consortium.

$\LaTeX$ Templates

I have a number of templates available on my GitHub, including

Friends

I have been incredibly lucky to be supported by a bunch of wonderful folks, both in the world of mathematics and out. I encourage visiting their websites as well. Here's a few really formative mentors of mine:

• Jesse Wolfson, my Ph.D. advisor
• Edray Herber Goins, my undergraduate advisor and mentor.
• Konrad Aguilar, an early graduate mentor and research advisor.
• Francis Su, mentor and author of one of my favorite books

Here's a a little snapshot of my academic circle, some of the folks I've worked closely with and learned from during graduate school:

• Anubhav Nanavaty
• Suhasiny Naik
• Sidhanth Raman

Here's also a few of my close friends!

• Mythili Vinnakota, an environmental economist at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU Law School (and also, my sister!)
• Xander Koo, a Ph.D. student in Human Centered Computing at Georgia Tech
• reach out if you'd like to be added :)