About me

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Algebraic Combinatorics and Fundamental Physics Unit at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) in Okinawa, Japan, led by Professor Matteo Parisi. I recieved my PhD in 2026 from North Dakota  State University, where I was advised by Professor Jessica Striker.

My research is in algebraic combinatorics. Much of it is about rings that come from Grassmannians and flag varities, approached from two directions. On one side, I work with web bases, which give combinatorial bases for spaces of SL_r-invariants, and with related dynamical actions on webs. I have also studied dynamics, including the cyclic sieving phenomenon, in other settings. On the other side, I work with Stanley-Reisner rings and their degenerations, including Stanley-Reisner presentations of the cohomology of Schubert varities. These two sides meet at positroid varieties, which is where my current work is headed.

Previously, I was a graduate student at University of California, Davis. I also spent a semester at the Max Plank Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

Before entering into mathematics, I was an opera singer studying in Berlin with Professor Norma Sharp, Hanns-Eisler Musik Hochschule.

I am a 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

I am also a founder and organizer of the Combinatorics Online Community Discord server (formerly, the Online Graduate Students in Combinatorics Discord server) - an online community of over 600 mathematicians. Please reach out for an invitation link if you are interested in joining.