Curriculum Vitae

Appointments:

  • Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, August 2019 - present
  • University of Chicago, L.E. Dickson RTG Instructor, January 2016 - August 2019 Mentor: Panagiotis E. Souganidis

  • MSRI Berkeley, Postdoc, August - December 2015

Education:

  • Princeton University, Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2015 (mentored by Peter Constantin)
  • University of Chicago, B.S. in Mathematics with Honors, 2011, Phi Beta Kappa

Visits:

  • MSRI Berkeley, July 16 - August 12, 2023, and January 19 - May 28, 2021, Research member in the Program "Mathematical problems in fluid dynamics"
  • Florida Institute of Technology, June 6 - June 18, 2023, Collaboration on kinetic and population dynamics (hosted by Stanley Snelson.
  • ENS Paris-Saclay, June 8 - June 30, 2022, Collaboration on the Hele-Shaw equation with surface tension (hosted by Thomas Alazard)
  • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, September 16 - 22, 2018 (hosted by Felix Otto)
  • Institut de Mathématiques - Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, September 9 - 23, 2017, July 18 - August 16, 2014, and June 15 - September 14, 2013 (hosted by Jean-Michel Roquejoffre)

Grants, Scholarships, and Awards:

  • NSF Research Grant DMS-2108209, 2021 - 2024, $198,664
  • NSF Research Grant DMS-1816643, 2018 - 2021, $146,421
  • The France and Chicago Collaborating in The Sciences (FACCTS) Grant, 2017, $9,740
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Princeton University, 2011 - 2015, $130,000
  • NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) Fellow, Institut de Mathématiques - Université Paul Sabatier, France, June 15 - September 14, 2013, $8,000
  • 2nd place in the 2014 AIMS Student Paper Competition, Madrid, Spain, July 2014
  • Princeton University Fellowship, 2011 - 2012
  • Paul R. Cohen Memorial Prize for Mathematics, University of Chicago, 2011
  • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Illinois chapter, 2011
  • Barry Goldwater Scholarship Program, Honorable Mention, 2010
  • Harryette Nightingale Cohn Scholarship, University of Chicago, 2009 - 2011
  • University of Chicago Dean's List, 2008 - 2011

Conference/Seminar Organizer:

Present/Ongoing:

  • Applied Analysis Seminar, Louisiana State University, since Fall 2019
  • Spectral Theory Learning Seminar, Louisiana State University, since Spring 2022

Past:

  • Special Session on Nonlinear models in kinetic theory, collective behavior, and fluid dynamics, The 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, May 30 - June 4, 2023, Wilmington NC (with C. Henderson and S. Snelson)
  • Special Session on Theoretical and Computational Studies of PDEs Related to Fluid Mechanics, AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Texas at El Paso, September 12 - 13, 2020 (with P. Nguyen and K. Yamazaki)
  • Special Session on Nonlocality in Models for Kinetic, Chemical, and Population Dynamics, AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Michigan, October 20 - 21, 2018 (with C. Henderson and S. Snelson)
  • CAMP (Computational, Applied Mathematics, and PDE) Seminar, University of Chicago, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 (with C. Mihaila and B. Shabani)

Talks:

Conferences and Workshops:

  • SIAM TX-LA Mini-Symposium on Problems in Kinetic Theory and Nonlinear Waves, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, November 3 - 5, 2023
  • Special Session on Dynamics of Fluids and Special Session on Topics in Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, AMS Meeting, University of South Alabama, Mobile, October 13 - 15, 2023
  • The Tenth Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Pitesti, Romania, June 30 - July 5, 2023
  • Third international conference on applications of mathematics to nonlinear sciences, Pokhara, Nepal, May 25 - 28, 2023
  • Recent advances in mathematical fluid dynamics, Duke University, May 20 - 24, 2023
  • Reflections on Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 11 - 12, 2023
  • Recent Progress in Kinetic and Integro-Differential Equations, Banff International Research Station, Canada, Nov. 4 - 11, 2022
  • Special Session on Qualitative Analysis and Control Theory of Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations, AMS Meeting, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Oct. 15 - 16, 2022
  • Special Session on Nonlinear Wave Equations General Relativity and Connections to Fluid Dynamics, AMS Meeting, Brown University (virtual), Mar. 20 - 21, 2021
  • SIAM TX-LA Mini-Symposium on Nonlinear Waves and Applications, Oct. 17, 2020
  • 84th Midwest PDE Seminar, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Oct. 26 - 27, 2019
  • Special Session on Analysis and Applications of Deterministic and Stochastic Evolution Equations, AMS Meeting, Binghamton University, Oct. 12 - 13, 2019
  • The Ninth Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Galati, Romania, Jun. 28 - Jul. 03, 2019
  • Eleventh Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences, Albena, Bulgaria, Jun. 20 - 25, 2019
  • Regularity and Blow-up of Navier-Stokes Type PDEs using Harmonic and Stochastic Analysis, Banff International Research Station, Canada, Aug. 19 - 24, 2018
  • 10th Jubilee Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences, Albena, Bulgaria, Jun. 20 - 25, 2018
  • Second Northeastern Analysis Meeting (NEAM), Albany, NY, USA, Oct. 13 - 15, 2017
  • Special Session on Incompressible Fluid Dynamics, Mathematical Congress of the Americas (MCA), McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Jul. 24 -28, 2017
  • Ninth Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Promoting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sciences, Albena, Bulgaria, Jun. 21 - 26, 2017
  • Northeastern Analysis Meeting, Brockport, New York, USA, Oct. 14 - 16, 2016
  • Special Session on Emergence and Dynamics of Patterns in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation, The 11th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Orlando, Florida, USA, Jul 1 - 5, 2016
  • Special Session on Fluids and Geometry, International Conference on Evolutions Equations, Vanderbilt University, May 16 - 20, 2016
  • Special Session on Analysis and Control of Fluid Models and Flow-coupled Systems, SIAM Conference on Analysis of PDEs, Arizona, Dec. 7 - 10, 2015
  • IRTG Autumn School and Workshop on Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, Bad Boll, Germany, Oct. 27 - 30, 2014
  • Special session on Navier-Stokes equations and related problems, The 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Madrid, Spain, Jul. 7 - 11, 2014
  • Special session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in the Applied Sciences, AMS Meeting, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Mar. 21 - 23, 2014
  • Special session on Partial Differential Equations, AMS Meeting, Iowa State University, Apr. 27 - 28, 2013

University Colloquia and Seminars:

  • MSRI Berkeley, Applied Fluids Seminar, July 19, 2023, and Apr. 9, 2021
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Multiscale Seminar, Feb. 12, 2021
  • Indiana University Bloomington, PDE and Applied Math Seminar, Nov. 9, 2020
  • Purdue University WL, PDE Seminar, Dec. 5, 2019
  • Louisiana State University, Applied Analysis Seminar, Nov. 4, 2019
  • Louisiana State University, Math Colloquium, Feb. 4, 2019
  • Tulane University, Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar, Feb. 1, 2019
  • Texas Tech, Math Colloquium, Jan. 29, 2019
  • University of Central Florida, Math Colloquium, Jan. 17, 2019
  • University of Chicago, CAMP (Computational, Applied Mathematics and PDE) Seminar, Oct. 17, 2018
  • Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, Sep. 18, 2018
  • T.U. Delft, Electrical Engineering, Math. & Computer Science Seminar, May 22, 2018
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, Feb. 22, 2018
  • University of South Carolina, Math Colloquium, Feb. 15, 2018
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Math Colloquium, Feb. 13, 2018
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison, PDE Geometric Analysis Seminar, Apr. 10, 2017
  • Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Feb. 20, 2017
  • University of Chicago, CAMP Seminar, May 25, 2016
  • DePaul University, Analysis Seminar, May 6, 2016
  • Loyola University Chicago, Analysis Seminar, Apr. 21, 2016
  • MSRI Berkeley, Postdoc Symposium, Nov. 20, 2015
  • Purdue University Calumet, Department of Mathematics, Oct. 31, 2013
  • Princeton University, Math Graduate Student Seminar, Nov. 29, 2012
  • Princeton University, Math Graduate Student Seminar, Mar. 1, 2012

Teaching Experience:

Louisiana State University:

  • Real Analysis I, MATH 7311, Fall 2023
  • Advanced Calculus, MATH 4031, Fall 2023
  • Ordinary Differential Equations, MATH 7320, Spring 2023
  • Complex Variables, MATH 4036, Spring 2022
  • Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces, MATH 4153, Spring 2022
  • Topics in the Mathematics of Materials Science, MATH 7384, Fall 2020
  • Mathematical Methods in Engineering, MATH 2070, Fall 2020
  • Mentor for ESTAAR program, Summer 2020 (two-month long project in applied math and simulation of PDEs with a high school student)
  • Analytical Geometry & Calculus II, MATH 1552, Spring 2020
  • Analytical Geometry & Calculus I, MATH 1550, Fall 2019

University of Chicago:

  • The University of Chicago 2019 REU Program, June 15 - August 15 (namely, a three-week intensive course in some fundamental aspects of integral and differential functional analysis to the REU participants)
  • Accelerated Analysis in Rn I, MATH 20310, Winter 2019
  • Advanced Numerical Analysis, MATH 21200, Fall 2017
  • Analysis in Rn III, MATH 20500, Fall 2018, Spring 2017
  • Analysis in Rn II, MATH 20400, Winter 2018, Winter 2017
  • Analysis in Rn I, MATH 20300, Fall 2016
  • Ordinary Differential Equations, MATH 27300, Winter 2018, Winter 2016
  • Vector Calculus, MATH 20000, Winter 2016

University of California Berkeley:

  • Berkeley Math Circle (BMC), Fall 2015 (BMC is a weekly program for over 500 San Francisco Bay Area elementary, middle and high school students)

Princeton University:

  • Multivariable Calculus, MAT201, Spring 2014

Journal Referee:

Journal of Functional Analysis, SIAM Journal on Math. Analysis, Communications in PDEs, Journal of Differential Equations, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, and Communications in Mathematical Sciences.