RESEARCH INTERESTS

Algebraic, Geometric, and Topological Combinatorics.
Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes, discrete Laplacians, hyperplane arrangements, matroids, tilings, chip-firing models, quasisymmetric functions. CV

The Mathematics of Chip-Firing (Book & Resources)

Publications

ADVISING

Postdocs
Current
Andrew Vander Werf RTG postdoc
Sarah Brauner NSF postdoc and Prager Assistant Professor
(Starting 2024)

Former
Chi Ho Yuen, Croucher postdoctoral fellow
Nidhi Kaihnsa, Prager Assistant Professor

PhD Students
Current
Teressa Chambers
Nicholas Arosemena
Ethan Partida

Former
Alex McDonough UC Davis
Patrick Liscio Jane Street
Mona Khoshnevis

Undergraduate students
(A few of my Brown undergrads and where they are now.)
Aimee Lucido, Software Engineer and Novelist
Nicolas Schank, Senior Software Engineer Google
Sarah Sachs, Director of Engineering, ML and Infra Tome
Marley Rafson, Software Engineer Replica
Angelia Wang, PhD student Northwestern
Harjasleen Malvai, PhD student Cornell University
Talley Amir, PhD student Yale
Will Barclay, Product Manager Epsilon
Nathan Malimban, Software Engineer MathWorks
Clayton Sanford, PhD student Columbia
Daniel Kunin, MSc student Stanford
Nathaniel Weir, PhD student JHU
Sarah Pratt, Allen Institute for AI, PhD student UW
Anna Sabel, Technologist NASA JPL
Tracy Chin, Software Engineer Google
Shoshana Simons, PhD student UC Berkeley
Kyran Flynn Software Engineer Alexa