About

I am a William H. Kruskal Instructor in the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Chicago.

I completed my Ph.D. in applied mathematics at the University of Minnesota in 2026, co-advised by Prof. Mitchell Luskin and Prof. Alexander Watson. My dissertation, Multiscale Modeling of Electron Dynamics in Twisted Bilayer Graphene, was supported in part by the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Before that, I earned an Honors B.S. in applied mathematics and B.A. in physics at the University of Chicago in 2021.

My research interest lies in the mathematical modeling, computation and numerical analysis with applications to condensed matter physics. I have been working on modeling the electronic properties of two-dimensional materials, especially twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). I spent the summers of 2023 and 2024 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working with Chao Yang and Lin Lin on Hartree-Fock and coupled-cluster computations for interacting TBG.

Left: two graphene sheets at a small relative twist produce a long-wavelength moiré pattern, with the moiré unit cell outlined. Right: the electron energy bands that emerge from it.

Honors and Awards

• UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2025
• SIAM Student Travel Award 2024, 2025
• UMN Vanky Men Memorial Fellowship 2023