Professional Experience
REU Site in Mathematical Analysis and Applications Summer 2020.
University of Michigan, Dearborn. (Dearborn, MI.)
A Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
Project: Classifying Toric 3-Fold Codes of Dimensions 4 and 5.
Big Data Summer Institute Summer 2019.
University of Michigan. (Ann Arbor, MI.)
A Summer in Biostatistics program.
Project: Clasification of Drug Effectiveness using Bimodal Normal Mixture Models.
Lear Open Innovation Competition Winter 2018.
Lear Corporation. (Southfield, MI.)
An engineering research project competition.
Project: Superhuman Safety Seat quick repositioning system.
Research Talks
Young Mathematicians Conference August 2020.
The Ohio State University. ([Virtual] Columbus, OH.)
Thirty-minute research talk.
Summer Undergraduate Michigan Mathematics Research (SUMMR) Conference July 2020.
Michigan State University. ([Virtual] East Lansing, MI.)
Thirty-minute research talk.
Symposium on Big Data, Human Health and Statistics July 2019.
University of Michigan. (Ann Arbor, MI.)
Poster presentation.
Presentations
SURE Kickoff 18 May 2021.
University of Michigan - Dearborn Summer Undergraduate Research Experience. ([Virtual] Dearborn, MI.)
I shared advice and information with a virtual crowd of around 60 student researchers and their faculty mentors.
CASL Undergraduate Research panel 8 April 2021.
College of Arts, Sciences and Letters. ([Virtual] Dearborn, MI.)
With five other current students and recent alumni, I answered questions and shared advice with an audience of around 100 current students interested in pursuing research in college.
Honors Orientation presentation 2018-2020.
University of Michigan - Dearborn Honors Program. (Dearborn, MI.)
I answered questions and described different aspects of the program to cohorts of about 80 new students in the form of a brief presentation. I attended three orientations as a current student.
Writing Center class visit 28 February 2019.
University of Michigan - Dearborn Writing Center (Dearborn, MI.)
With another Writing Center consultant, I gave a presentation to students in a business writing course on the services made available through the Writing Center.
Projects
The Borsuk-Ulam Theorem and its Implications
A senior capstone project for MATH 492: Introduction to Topology.
Paper, 11 pages; course lecture.
In Defense of Frege’s Account of Numbers
A senior capstone project for PHIL 340: Analytic Philosophy.
Paper, 9 pages.
MOOC Success Trends on edX
A senior capstone project for STAT 440: Design and Analysis of Experiments.
Paper, 21 pages; presentation.
Dada, According to the Laws of Arp: An Analysis of a Chance Collage
An Honors capstone project for HONS 304: Western Culture IV: Modern Era.
Paper, 17 pages; course lecture.
Codeswitching as a Racist Phenomenon in BlacKkKlansman
A research project for LING 383: American English.
Paper, 20 pages; presentation.
Using Writing Center Data for Decision Making
A research project for COMP 475: Supporting Literacies.
Paper, 14 pages; presentation.
Service
Math Club junior colloquium 2020-2021.
I organized a guest speaker series with the intention of helping to expose organization members to possible research topics and careers and programs in the mathematical sciences and allied fields such as geographical information systems and biostatistics.
Math Club student video presentations 2020-2021.
During my role as President of the Math Club, a peer and I started a series of video presentations on recreational topics to share with the wider community of math students which became a popular way to keep students engaged in department activities while studying remotely.
Math Club problem solving workshop 2019-2021.
As a supplement to coursework for students participating in regional and national mathematics competitions in our department, I designed a problem solving workshop as part of the math club’s programming. This involved writing session notes and presenting solutions to challenging problems to fit recurring competition themes during the workshop sessions.
Honors Program mentoring 2018-2021.
In my capacity as a leader outside of the classroom for the Honors Program, I organized a student mentoring program for incoming freshmen and recruited upperclassmen to serve. I’ve spoken at orientation and informational events in front of audiences of over one hundred people on numerous occasions.
Writing Center data analytics 2018-2019.
To serve as a practical component to the certificate in writing, I used classification and multiple regression techniques to optimize tutor schedules to match expertise to patterns in students’ needs. This project involved data collected for each appointment at the U of M - Dearborn Writing Center from the last ten years.
Data Science Association founding 2018-2019.
I was a founding member of the Data Science Association student organization, through which I helped to facilitate competitions and give presentations on new topics in the field such as biostatistics and machine learning algorithms.