Employment |
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| Aug. 2008–present |
Assistant Professor, Queens College, Flushing, NY.
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| Aug. 2005–May 2008 |
Robert Riley Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
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Education |
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| Sept. 2003–June 2005 |
Ph.D. in Mathematics,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Ph.D. Thesis:
A Gessel-Viennot-Type Method for Cycle Systems and Applications to Aztec Pillows
Advisor:
Henry Cohn.
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| Sept. 2001–June 2003 |
M.S. in Mathematics,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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| Aug. 1997–May 2001 |
B.S. in Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.
Graduated with Distinction and with Honors in Mathematics.
Thesis:
A Generalized Binet's Formula for kth Order Linear Recurrences: A Markov Chain
Approach
Advisor:
Francis Su.
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Grants and Fellowships |
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| 2010–2011 |
PSC-CUNY Research Award PSCREG-41-303. Fully commutative elements in affine Coxeter groups.
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| 2009–2010 |
PSC-CUNY Research Award PSCOOC-40-124. Sequences, Matrices, and Graph Theory.
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| 2005 |
VIGRE Fellowship, UW Department of Mathematics.
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Honors and Awards |
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| 2003–2004 |
Excellence in Teaching Award, UW Department of Mathematics.
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| 2001 |
Graduate School Merit Award, University of Washington.
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| 2001–2005 |
Teaching Assistantship, UW Department of Mathematics.
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| 2001 |
NSF Fellowship Honorable Mention.
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| 2000–2001 |
MCM Competition–Outstanding, Spring 2001; Honorable Mention, Spring 2000.
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| 1998 |
Freshman Mathematics Award, Harvey Mudd College.
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Papers and Talks |
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Research Interests |
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Teaching |
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Conferences and Workshops |
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| June 8, 2010 |
Technology in Mathematics Instruction Conference 2010. CUNY Graduate Center, NYC.
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| November 20, 2009 |
Eighth Northeast Probability Seminar. Columbia University, NYC.
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| October 14, 2009 |
CUNY High Performance Computing Parallel Computing Workshop. CUNY Graduate Center, NYC.
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| September 26, 2009 |
Discrete Math Day at Misericordia College. Dallas, PA.
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| July 20–24, 2009 |
Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics. Hagenburg, Austria.
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| May 16, 2009 |
Graph Theory Day Fifty-Seven. Nassau Community College. Garden City, NY.
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| January 6–9, 2008 |
Joint Mathematics Meetings. San Diego, CA.
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| September 15, 2007 |
Discrete Math Day at Middlebury College. Middlebury, VT.
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| February 12–16, 2007 |
Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics. Val-Morin, Québec, Canada.
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| May 6, 2006 |
Discrete Math Day at Binghamton University. Binghamton, NY.
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| June 20–25, 2005 |
Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics. Taormina, Italy.
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| Jan. 31–Feb. 4, 2005 |
MSRI workshop on Markov Chains in Algorithms and Statistical Physics. Berkeley, CA.
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| Jan. 5–8, 2005 |
Joint Mathematics Meetings. Atlanta, GA.
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| June 28–July 2, 2004 |
Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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| March 2004 |
International Biometric Society–ENAR. Pittsburgh, PA.
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| Oct. 28, 2000 |
Mt. Baldy Mathematics Conference. Claremont, CA.
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Related Activites |
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| 2009–present |
Organizer of the Queens College Mathematics Colloquium.
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| 2009–present |
Co-webmaster for the Queens College Mathematics Department
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| 2009–present |
Faculty contact for the Mathematica Lab in Kiely 061
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| September 11, 2009 |
Improving Mathematics Learning proposal design assistance workshop. Macaulay Honors College, NYC.
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| August 26, 2009 |
Volunteer for The Summit residence hall move-in
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| 2006–2007 |
Binghamton University learning community faculty contact.
A supported-learning group for incoming freshman. Discussions on teaching, learning, and mentoring, holding office hours in the dorm, organizing workshops on succeeding in math classes.
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| May 21–22, 2007 |
Institute for Student-Centered Learning Conference, Binghamton University.
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| 2006 |
Co-organizer of Discrete Mathematics Day at Binghamton University, May 6, 2006.
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| 2005–2008 |
Co-organizer of the Binghamton University combinatorics seminar.
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| 2005–2008 |
Faculty co-sponsor of the undergraduate math club.
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| 2004–2005 |
Co-organizer of the University of Washington combinatorics and geometry seminar.
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| 2005 |
Organizer of the combinatorics pre-seminar for undergraduates.
Introduction to ideas present in the combinatorics seminar for research-motivated undergraduates.
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| 2003–2004 |
Math Olympiad Program Co-Leader, TOPS at Seward Public School.
After-school program for fourth and fifth graders. Preparing questions, administering the
Olympiad, preparing directed homework questions.
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Referee for: American Mathematical Monthly, Annals of Combinatorics, Ars Combinatoria, Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly,
Discrete Applied Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics,
Linear Algebra and its Applications, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.
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Reviewer for: 14th International Fibonacci Conference.
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Member of the MAA.
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Advising |
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Masters Exams Supervised: F. Torres, Q. Zhuang, D. Borroni, L. Schultz, T. Hui, A. Mojacco, M. Fried
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Undergraduate Research Supervised: M. Pandazis
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