Research Areas

Symplectic Geometry and Categorical Homotopy Theory

Education

2019.09 - 2024.12 Ph.D. in Mathematics: University of California, Davis

2017.09 - 2019.06 M.S. in Physics: University of California, Davis

2013.08 - 2017.05 B.A. in Physics: Boston University

2013.08 - 2017.05 B.M. in Clarinet Performance: Boston University

Awards

2024 UC Davis William Karl Schwarze Scholarship in Mathematics

2021 UC Davis Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award

2017-1018UC Davis Ray and Constance Chandler Fellowship

2014-2016 (four times) Boston University UROP Award

2013-2017 Boston University Presidential Scholarship

2013-2017 Boston University National Merit Scholarship

2013-2017 Boston University Music Scholarship

Publications

1. A homotopical invariant of Weinstein surfaces, in progress

2. Dynamic scaling in the two-dimensional Ising spin glass with normal-distributed couplings (with N. Xu, K.-H. Wu,, T.-J. Kao, and A. W. Sandvik), Phys. Rev. E 96, 052102 (2017).

3. Dual time scales in simulated annealing of a two-dimensional Ising spin glass (with N. Xu, A. W. Sandvik ), Phys. Rev. E 95, 052133 (2017).