I am a teaching faculty at Michigan State University. In Spring 2026, I am teaching MTH299: Transitions and MTH132: Calculus I.
In recent semesters:
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I have developed the curriculum for and taught MTH 414: Linear Algebra II.
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I have co-developed the curriculum for, co-coordinated, and taught MTH314: Matrix Algebra with Computational Applications.
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I have taught large lectures for MTH234: Multivariable Calculus.
From 2024-2025, I was an MAA Project NExT Fellow.
My research interests lie in the field of Topological Data Analysis. I earned my PhD in mathematics from Michigan State University in May 2020. During my PhD under the supervision of Jose Perea, my work revolved around the study of toroidal dynamical systems. I made contributions to the development of persistent homology by proving Künneth-type theorems, to topological time series analysis by further developing the theory of sliding window embeddings, and to multiscale data coordinatization in topological spaces by proving stability theorems for circular coordinates.
From 2020 to 2023, I was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma.
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Recent News: Papers, Organization & Attendance, and Talks
September 05, 2023
Our paper of Sliding Window Persistence for Quasiperiodic Functions was published in the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology
June 09, 2023
Our paper Toroidal Coordinates: Decorrelating Circular Coordinates With Lattice Reduction was published in the proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2023).
Fall 2025 - present
I am co-organizing the Mathematics Teaching Seminar at Michigan State University (w/ Rachael Lund)
August 06, 2025
I served as the joint coordinator for the six MAA Project NExT workshops for my cohort at MAA MathFest 2025 (w/ Nelson Carter)
January 10, 2025
I co-organized an MAA Project NExT session on Active Learning at the Joint Mathematics Meeting (w/ Cherry Ng,
Sarah Kerrigan, and Abu Thomas)
February 13, 2025
I gave a short presentation about using ChatGPT in a Symposium about using AI in Math Classes, hosted in the Department of Mathematics at Michigan State University
August 10, 2024
I gave a talk about Künneth formulae at MathFest 2024.
February 27, 2024
I gave a lecture at the Topological Data Analysis Study Group, hosted virtually by the Erdos Institute
January 30, 2024
I spoke about MTH314 curriculum reform efforts in the Conversations Among Colleagues seminar in the Department of Mathematics at Michigan State University