About Me

Employment

Department of Mathematics, University of Utah

• Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs, July 2023-present
• Associate Professor of Mathematics, July 2018-present
• Sabbatical Leave, July 2021-June 2022
• Assistant Professor of Mathematics, July 2010-June 2018

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

• Research Scientist, September 2007-June 2010
• Mentor: Michael Shelley

Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Postdoctoral Fellow, July 2006-June 2007
• Mentor: Greg Forest

Awards and Fellowships

• UPSTEM fellow (2023-2024)
• Department of Mathematics Undergraduate Teaching Award (2014)

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, May 2006, Georgia Institute of Technology.

• Thesis: Small Scale Stochastic Simulations for Particle Image Velocimetry Applications
• Advisor: Peter J. Mucha
• Minor: Mechanical Engineering

Diploma in Mathematics (B.S. and M.Sc.), April 2001, ETH Zürich

• Thesis: Variational Formulation and Energy Estimates for Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions
• Advisor: Marcus Grote