| I grew up in San Diego, and graduated in 1996 from Mission Bay High School. I then spent nine years in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I did an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master's Degree from San Francisco State University, and went back to Berkeley for my Ph. D., which I obtained in 2005. After graduating, I moved to Boston for three years, where I was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Currently, I am an associate professor of mathematics at North Carolina State University. |
| Education | |||
| 2000 | B.A. | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 2002 | M.A. | San Francisco State University | Advisor: Serkan Hosten |
| 2005 | Ph.D. | University of California, Berkeley | Advisor: Bernd Sturmfels |
| Positions Held | |
| 2005-2008 | Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows |
| 2008-2010 | Assistant Professor of Mathematics, North Carolina State University |
| 2010- | Associate Professor of Mathematics, North Carolina State University |
| Academic Honors and Grants | |
| 2001-2005 | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship |
| 2005 | Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize (UC Berkeley) |
| 2005-2008 | Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows |
| 2007-2010 | NSF Standard Grant "Algebraic Statistical Models" |
| 2009-2014 | David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellowship |
| 2010-2015 | NSF CAREER Award "Algebraic Problems in Statistics and Biology" |
| 2011 | AMS Invited Address, Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Winston-Salem, NC |
| 2012 | MAA Invited Address, Joint Mathematics Meeting, Boston, MA |
| 2012 | Fellow of the AMS |
| 2013-2017 | NCSU University Faculty Scholar |