I am a 5th year PhD candidate in mathematics at the University of Connecticut, advised by Lan-Hsuan Huang. My research interests are in geometric analysis and mathematical relativity, particularly variational problems, the positive mass theorem, and geometric questions motivated by AdS/CFT.
At UConn, I've served as instructor of record for courses including Precalculus, Calculus II, and Technical Writing in Mathematics. Before graduate school, I taught 8th grade math for a year at a public middle school in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Research
Papers & preprintsA spacetime positive mass theorem with corners via mollification
Teaching
Courses & experienceInstructor of record
University of Connecticut
- MATH 2011Q Fundamentals of Algebra & Geometry
- Spring 2027 · upcoming
- MATH 1060Q Precalculus
- Fall 2025, Fall 2026
- MATH 2705W Technical Writing in Mathematics
- Spring 2026
- MATH 1132Q Calculus II
- Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Teaching assistant
University of Connecticut
- MATH 1132Q Calculus II
- Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- MATH 1131Q Calculus I
- Fall 2022
About
I'm originally from the Seattle area, which for baseball makes me a diehard Mariners fan, but my middle name is Fenway, which also makes me a Boston Red Sox fan, so I've had twice as many opportunities to be disappointed this past season.
Outside of math and baseball, I'm an avid runner and fan of running. Highlight as a spectator was seeing Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone break the 400m hurdles world record at Hayward Field in 2024 (which lasted a month or so, until she broke it again at the Paris Olympics). Highlight as a runner was the Boston Marathon 2025.
Writing
I also love reading novels and writing poetry. At UConn, I’ve taken graduate seminars and creative writing workshops in the English department. As part of that coursework, I earned a Graduate Certificate in American Studies.
Selected publications & honors
- Poetic Journeys · selected poems2024–25, 2025–26
- “The Hosts” · Long River Review2025
- Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize · second place2025
- “Your Torso” · Pigeonholes2022
Upcoming
Talks & conferencesLafayette College
Colloquium · giving a talk
Convexity at infinity and the Plateau problem in asymptotically locally hyperbolic manifolds
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Lehigh Geometry and Topology Conference
Attending · Lehigh University