I am a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at University of Washington, advised by Thomas Rothvoss. My research focuses on combinatorial optimization and discrete mathematics.
Before coming to UW, I received my masters in mathematics at San Francisco State University, where I was advised by Dustin Ross. While there I did research in combinatorics and tropical geometry, working on a new proof of the log-concavity of the characteristic polynomial of matroids.
Research interests
My interests are now broadly in the direction of combinatorics, optimization, and probability. Lately I have been thinking about Boolean functions, their relationship to questions in theoretical computer science, and some probabilistic and analytic tools used to study them.
General interests
Long before coming back to school for math, I studied music in my undergrad. Between then and now I have worn quite a few hats, including teaching, running MRIs, coordinating clinical research, and software engineering. When not doing math, I enjoy photography, making coffee, learning languages, and playing board games.