I earned my Ph.D. in Mathematics at The Ohio State University in Summer 2022. My mathematical
interests are diverse, though my dissertation research focused on harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and number theory. I have also done some work in topological data analysis (TDA) during an internship at the Autonomous Technology Research Center at Wright State University in partnership with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).
Always looking for opportunities to apply my skills in new ways, I have participated in various Erdős Institute programs. Building off my interest in cryptology, I designed an encryption and decryption program using Elm after participating in an Elm workshop at the Erdős Institute. As part of the Erdős Institute Fall Boot Camp, I partnered with an OSU physics Ph.D. student to study COVID-19 spread at the county level in the United States as of December 2020 utilizing Random Forest and Nearest Neighbors Predictors. In 2021, I collaborated with two other mathematicians and a data scientist on the NFL Big Data Bowl Challenge (Phase 1). We engineered predictive features by play-type to cluster into different strategies and applied predictive modeling to the clusters to create a new metric for special teams play. My most recent project (Asymmetric Cloning to Eavesdrop on BB84 Protocol) is in Quantum computing as a 2022 QuForce Fellow, for which I am working with a fellow mathematician and physics Ph.D. candidate. We implemented asymmetric cloning to eavesdrop on the BB84 Protocol, comparing the theoretical expectation to the experimental results from implementation on IonQ’s 11-qubit quantum computer.
Before I came to OSU, I earned my B.A. in “The Language of Mathematics” at New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study. For my Senior Thesis Project “Linguistics and Mathematics in Cryptology,” I performed a mathematical and linguistic analysis of both an original field cipher from World War I (the ADFGVX cipher) and my modified version.
I spent my final year at OSU as President of the OSU Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). My focus was on the transition of our group into a hybrid mode with greater resources available online to increase accessibility and membership. Please see AWM-OSU to learn more about AWM at OSU.
Note: This site is static as of my graduation in August 2022; for more up-to-date information, see my LinkedIn.