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Research Interests

Mathematical Phylogenetics and Computational Algebraic Geometry

Education

  1. B.A. in Mathematics from Middlebury College, 2022
  2. (In progress, expected 2028) PhD in Applied Mathematics from NJIT

Research Positions

  1. Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Kristina Wicke (NJIT), September 2023-present
  2. Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. Jennifer Crodelle (Midd), June-August 2021
  3. Undergraduate Research Assistant to Dr. John Schmitt (Midd), June 2020-May 2021

Publications

  1. A Survey of Minimum Saturated Graphs (updated 2021), co-author with Dr. John Schmitt, Dr. Jill Faudree, and Dr. Ralph Faudree
  2. On the maximum value of the stairs2 index (2024), co-author with Dr. Kristina Wicke (preprint here)

Contributed Talks and Posters

  1. Intro to Tree Balance and Maximum Increase in Widths (talk), Math Bio Symposium at Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, October 2025
  2. Detecting 2-cycles with Quintets under the Coalescent (talk), Algebra Seminar at UH Mānoa, October 2025
  3. Extremal Trees and Values of Max Increase in Widths (poster), FACM (Newark), June 2025
  4. On the maximum value of the stairs2 index (talk), SIAM NNP at Rochester Institute of Technology, November 2024
  5. An Extremal Result for the stairs2 Index (poster), Current Methods and Open Problems in Mathematical and Statistical Phylogenetics at ICERM, September 2024
  6. Measuring tree balance using the stairs2 index: A new result regarding extremal trees (talk), 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montréal, July 2024
  7. Some Effects of Behavior amid an Epidemic Disease (poster), SIAM-NNP conference at NJIT, October 2023
  8. Synchronization of Electrically Coupled Neurons (talk), JMM (virtual), April 2022

Workshops

  1. Identifiability Of Species Relationships From Quintet Concordance Factors (Collaborate@ICERM, January 2026)
  2. Applied Algebra in Evolutionary Biology (Graduate Research Community at UH Mānoa, August-November 2025)
  3. Current Methods and Open Problems in Mathematical and Statistical Phylogenetics (ICERM, September 2024)
  4. Algebraic Methods in Phylogenetics (UH Mānoa, July 2024)

Professional Experience

  1. Exponent Fellow at National Museum of Mathematics, July 2022–August 2023

Awards

  1. 2022 Parker Prize- Annual Middlebury College Math department award for best senior work (thesis title: Some Effects of Behavior amid an Epidemic Disease)