Welcome to my academic website!
A little about me:
I graduated from Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN with my B.A. in Mathematics with minors in Physics and Military Leadership in 2011. While in college, I was a member of the Army ROTC program and met my wife, Amanda.
After college, I was commissioned in the US Army as an Ordnance Officer and spent my time in the military in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC. I was at Fort Bragg for about 4 years as a Paratrooper in the 82nd, and enjoyed every (almost) minute of it! It was a great opportunity for me to see the world, meet people, learn to be a leader, become a Jumpmaster, and not least of all jump out of perfectly good airplanes!
I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from Baylor University in 2022 under the supervision of Fritz Gesztesy (Baylor University). My dissertation was titled “On Functions Related to the Spectral Theory for Sturm–Liouville Operators”.
I am now a Zassenhaus Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University. My general research interests include spectral theory, operator theory, special functions, and orthogonal polynomials. I am also a co-organizer for the Analysis and Operator Theory Seminar at OSU.
As for my family life, I have been married for 15 years to my wife Amanda. My wife is a professional development specialist for an education company and we have two dogs, Leela and Daisy. We enjoy traveling, being outdoors, and visiting the zoo and local museums as much as possible. The dogs seem to enjoy road trips almost as much as we do!