Mentoring
Working with and mentoring undergraduate and high school students is a central part of my mathematical life. If you're a student looking to explore different avenues of mathematics not typically found in the classroom, please reach out me to introduce yourself, what your background is, and what you'd like to learn about.
I'm an organizer and instructor for UCI's Directed Reading Program:
Spring 2024 - Braid Groups
Student - Gregory Borissov
Winter 2024 - Nielsen-Thurston Theory
Students - James Corcoran and Kejun Yang
Fall 2022 - Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
Students - Dylan Carden, Yining Lu, and Xiaohan Zhao
Spring 2021 - Algebraic Curves and Riemann Surfaces
Students - Joy Da Ae Shin and Zhengran Ji
Winter 2021 - Geometric Group Theory
Student - Tianshu Chu
Undergraduate Research
In Summer 2024, I was a research mentor for the UCLA Geometry & Topology REU supervised by Mason Porter. The research topic was topological data analysis; for more information and the students' final report, see the RTG webpage.
I was an undergraduate research mentor to Siddharth Viswanath, supervised by Jesse Wolfson. Building on the works of Ron Eglash and Reggie Wilson, we are performing quantitative analysis to compute the Hausdorff dimension of African music samples. Our research sits at the intersection of mathematics and anthropology, and we work to challenge conventional notions of who encounters and embodies mathematical knowledge in the arts and sciences.
Outreach
I was a mentor and curriculum organizer for Math CEO, a community educational outreach built with features that the education literature has identified as successful in STEM after school program for students coming from low income communities.
In 2021 and 2023, I served as a Teaching Assistant for the Stanford University Math Camp, a summer program geared towards teaching 10th and 11th graders mathematics outside of typical school curricula and competition math, such as abstract algebra and algebraic topology.
When I lived in Atlanta, I was involved in outreach initiatives with Evans Harrell and events sponsored by Science ATL. I also served in some formal and informal peer mentorship roles for the School of Math.