Mentoring
Letters of recommendation
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Undergraduate research
Undergraduate research projects I've led include:
- Spring 2026: MEGL project marked length spectrum
rigidity for projective simplices. Grad mentors:
Anunoy Chakraborty and Gabriel Lumpkin. Undergraduate
researchers: Matthew Melendez, Vincent Nguyen, Jada Oakcrum.
- Spring 2023: MEGL project hyperbolic crochet.
Grad mentor: Madeline Horton. Undergraduate researchers:
Nguphuong Au, Merold Saffa, Aiden Self, Sydney Thu
[team photo 1]
[team photo 2]
[reverse escher]
- Winter 2020: LoG(M) project entropy degeneration of ideal projective
pants. Co-supervisor: Giuseppe Martone.
Grad mentor: Mitul Islam. Undergraduate
researchers: Marianne DeBrito, Andrew Nguyen, and Marisa O'Gara.
DeBrito, Marianne; Nguyen, Andrew; and O'Gara, Marisa (2021) The
Degeneration of the Hilbert Metric on Ideal Pants and its
Application to Entropy, Rose-Hulman Undergraduate
Mathematics Journal: Vol. 22: Iss. 1, Article 3.
[journal]
[gitlab]
[team photo]
- Fall 2019: LoG(M) project, growth
rates of tent maps. Grad mentor: Yiwang Chen.
Undergraduate researchers: Robert Buckley, Grace O'Brien, and Zoe
Zhou.
Submitted for publication (Buckley, Chen, O'Brien, Zhou)
[gitlab]
[team photo]
- Fall 2018: I supervised the LoG(M) project,
modeling convex projective geometries
Grad mentors: Samantha Pinella and Robert Walker
Undergrad researchers: Rudreshwaran Ranganathan, Steven
Schaefer, and Hanissa Shamsuddin
[final poster]
[team photo]
- Summer 2017: I mentored Jennifer
Jones at the Michigan REU program. Jenny
collaborated with REU student Adam Holeman,
who was mentored by my fellow postdoc Caleb
Ashley.
Jenny and Adam's REU write-up: Random
Walks on the Fundamental Group of the Once Punctured Torus.
