I am a graduate student in mathematics at UC Berkeley. My advisor is Bernd Sturmfels. I am interested in combinatorics and algebra, particularly tropical geometry.

I received my Masters degree from Princeton University, focusing on graph theory, a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and my undergraduate degree from Yale University. I also spent one year studying violin at The Juilliard School.

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Papers

The distinguishing number of the direct product and wreath product action, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 24 (3) (2006) 331-345. arXiv

The maximum distinguishing number of a group, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 13 (1) (2006) R70. arXiv

The distinguishing number of the augmented cube and hypercube powers, Discrete Mathematics, Volume 308, Issue 11, 6 June 2008, Pages 2330-2336. arXiv

Improved pebbling bounds (with A. Godbole), Discrete Mathematics, Volume 308, Issue 11, 6 June 2008, Pages 2301-2306. arXiv

Stably computable properties of network graphs (with D. Angluin, J. Aspnes, M. J. Fischer, H. Jiang, R. Peralta), Distributed Computing and Sensor Systems: First IEEE International Conference, DCOSS 2005, Marina del Rey, CA, USA, June/July, 2005, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 3560, Springer-Verlag, June 2005, pp. 63-74.

Tropical Decomposition of Symmetric Tensors, final project for Math 239A, Fall 2008

A Survey of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, for the Workshop for the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture at the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences, August 2007