About Me

Welcome! I am currently working in the finance sector, primarily using machine learning and data science. 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.”

Prior to this, I was a Harold L. Dorwart visiting assistant professor at Trinity College where I put my passion for teaching mathematics and statistics into practice. 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