myself

Hello, I am a fifth year math graduate student at Colorado State University. I am planning on graduating July 2025.

In my past life, I was a software engineer at Coursera, helping to make education accessible to all.

Personal

I grew up in the frozen tundra of Calgary, Alberta. Then I worked in Silicon Valley up in the San Francisco Bay Area for 6 years prior to coming to graduate school for mathematics.

Outside of math, I like to drink coffee, play hockey, ski, bike, and run (trail and road). I also enjoy playing and studying poker theory.

Writing

Most of my writing are not publically available, but throughout the years, some have been published on Coursera’s tech blog.

Presentations

Linear invariants of tensors - I visited University of British Columbia in August 2025 to collaborate on some ideas in finding null patterns in tensors and gave a talk about some existing work in the area.
Simultaneous Sylvester Systems (SSS) and some applications - I partook in Oberwolfach’s computational group theory research meeting in June 2025 where I presented some results for speeding up certain bottleneck cases of the module endomorphism problem.
Prelim - Computation of algebraic invariants for tensors and product decompositions - Preliminary exam completed in May 2025 as part of CSU Math PhD program requirements
W Type - As part of the Applied Category Theory seminar, I presented on W-types, a generalized recursive type that encompassesses all well-founded, or well-ordered trees.
Fast Solutions to Simultaneous Sylvester Systems - As part of the Tensors Algebra-Geometry-Applications 2024 conference, I presented on an algorithm for solving tensor equations.
Quick solvers for endomorphisms of modules. - As part of the Groups, Nilpotence, and Tensors 2023 conference, I presented on ideas to solve Simultaneous Sylvester Systems - systems of matrix equations of the form XA_i + B_iY = C_i.
The big tent of functional programming - As part of the Applied Category Theory Seminar at Colorado State University, I presented on the core idea behind functional programming - using types and data flow to program.
Option Data Type - As part of the Applied Category Theory Seminar at Colorado State University, I presented on the Option data type in Scala, a commonly used monad in functional programming that allows for composing failable operations.
Dependent Types with Pie - As part of the Applied Category Theory Seminar at Colorado State University, I presented on the dependent type programming language Pie.
Kan Condition for Simplicial Sets - As part of the ACATs seminar, I presented on how to compute with simplicial sets, a generalization of simplicies, which themselves generalize triangles. In particular, unwrapping the category theoretical definitions and the strong/weak Kan conditions to understand how they provide a useful model for higher categories.
ACM/ACM-W at CSU presentation - I presented to the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and ACM-Women groups at Colorado State University about interviewing for a technical position, drawing on my previous experiences as an interviewer and designer of interviewing questions.

Teaching

SP22 - Math 160: Calculus for Physical Scientists I
FA22 - Math 101: Math in the Social Sciences
SP23 - Math 101: Math in the Social Sciences
FA23 - Grad TA for Math 560: Linear Algebra
SP24 - Math 155: Calculus for Biological Scientists
FA24 - Math 101: Math in the Social Sciences
SP25 - Math 261: Calculus for Physical Scientists III
FA25 - Math 156: Calculus for Computational Scientists
SP26 - Math 156: Calculus for Computational Scientists