I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From the geological scale to the quantum, I study optimization problems. In particular, I leverage functional analytic techniques from calculation of variations and noncommutative geometry to build approximation schemes and understand their limiting objects. These include development and application of Wasserstein distances, both classical and quantum. Under suitable conditions, the associated limiting objects can exhibit fractal structure. My research supervisor is Björn Birnir (for a link to our joint paper, see the Research section of this website).
I am currently on the job market.
I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Non-Commutative Optimal Transport Program at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM). I was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Thematic Program on Nonsmooth Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometry at the Fields Institute, as well as the Analysis and Geometry of Random Spaces Program at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI, now the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute). Part of the funding for my fellowship at the Fields Institute was provided by George Elliott’s NSERC grant. Here is a link to a profile on me as an early career mathematician included in the Spring 2023 issue of the Fields Institute newsletter.
I earned a PhD in noncommutative fractal geometry from the University of California, Riverside, under the direction of Michel Lapidus. I also have a Master of Arts degree in Mathematics from San Francisco State University, where my masters thesis advisor was Yitwah Cheung. I first had an opportunity to develop a passion for learning mathematics at Brown University, where I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics-Physics.
I am also an alumna of the Undergraduate Faculty Program at the Institute for Advanced Study/Park City Mathematics Institute (IAS/PCMI), as well as the PROMYS for Teachers and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics programs.