Hello!

I am an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Cincinnati. My research interests lie primarily in nonlinear waves, integrable systems, and dispersive PDEs.

Previously, I was a postdoc at the University of Michigan (2015–2019). My PhD thesis advisor was Irina Nenciu and my thesis was on Hamiltonian perturbations of the doubly-infinite Toda lattice.

I currently serve as the secretary for the SIAM Activity Group Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures and on the junior editorial board of Studies in Applied Mathematics.

My research is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation.

Research Grants & Fellowships

• National Science Foundation, “Emergent Directions in Asymptotics for Nonlinear Wave Models,” $199,995, 2025–2028.
• Simons Foundation, “Asymptotic and Universal Phenomena in Nonlinear Waves,” $35,000, 2024–2029.
• National Science Foundation, “Applied Analysis for Emergent Nonlinear Wave Phenomena,” $195,997, 2021–2025.
• Simons Foundation, “Universal Wave Patterns,” $40,000, 2021–2026. (Withdranwn in favor of the NSF Grant DMS-2108029 due to Simons Foundations’ policy on concurrent funding at the time.)
• Taft Research Center Summer Research Fellowship, “Rogue Waves in Various Media,” $8000, Summer 2020.
• American Mathematical Society and Simons Foundation, AMS-Simons Travel Grant, $4000, 2017–2019.

Awards & Honors

• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Nonlinearity journal (London Mathematical Society and IOP Publishing), 2021.
• Honored Instructor Award, University Michigan, 2019. Nominated and chosen by students “for having an impact on their lives and academic careers.”
• The B. Alan Taylor Award, University of Michigan, 2017. Given by the Department of Mathematics “for excellence in teaching, mentoring, and research.”