About Me

Welcome! I am a Harold L. Dorwart visiting assistant professor at Trinity College where I put my passion for teaching mathematics and statistics into practice. Currently, I am very interested in machine learning and data science, specifically as it pertains to quantitative finance. I am passionate about applying my technical and quantitative skills in order to add value. Finance is particularly fascinating to me because, to quote Matt Levine, “Finance is a meta-layer on top of society that encodes, in some complicated and impossible-to-reconstruct way, the attitudes and structures of society.”

Previously, my research interest was in symplectic geometry and how it interacts with other fields of mathematics such as algebraic geometry. I also have some work on almost complex manifolds, algebraic topology, and a generalized eigenvalue problem in applied math. I earned my BS in mathematics and BA in philosophy and Greek from Calvin College and my PhD from Stony Brook University.

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”—Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince