Education

Carnegie Mellon University 2021-Present.

Ph.D. in Statistics. (Pittsburgh, PA.)  
 

University of Michigan, Dearborn 2017-2021.

B.Sc. in Mathematics and B.A. in Philosophy. (Dearborn, MI.)
Certificates in Mathematics for Finance and Writing.
Cumulative GPA: 4.00.

 

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 Information Session panel 2018-2020.

University of Michigan - Dearborn Honors Program. (Dearborn, MI.)
With five or six other current students in the program, I answered questions of propsective students and shared my personal testimony and experiences as a program participant. I attended and assisted in six panels as a current student, at each of which about 100 hundred students and guests attended.

 

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.

 

Publications

Academic Articles

  1. Braun, T., Carzon, J., Gorham, J., Jabbusch, K., Classifying Toric 3-Fold Codes of Dimensions 4 and 5 (preprint)  

Fiction

  1. “Entering a Transportation Hub,” University of Michigan - Dearborn Writing Awards, Fall 2017.
  2. “Ugbert Ugberto the Utility Monster,” Lyceum Literary & Fine Arts Journal, Fall 2020 (accepted).  
     

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.

 

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.

 

Work

University of Michigan

  • Organizing Committee Member. Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021.  

University of Michigan, Dearborn

  • Math Tutor. Mathematics Learning Center 2019-2021.
  • Honors Student Executive Council Member. Honors Program 2018-2020.
  • Contributor. The Michigan Journal 2018.
  • Writing Tutor. Writing Center 2018-2019.
  • Calculus II Mentor. Department of Mathematics and Statistics 2017-2018.  
     

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.

 

Awards

Academic

  • Chancellor’s Medallion, College of Arts, Sciences and Letters. 2021.
    This award is given to two graduating students each spring and fall term to recognize “outstanding quality of character, vitality, intellect, integrity and academic record.”
  • James B. Angell Scholar, Eight Terms. 2017-2021.
    This award is conferred to students with no grades lower than an A- in a given term.
  • Lear Open Innovation Challenge Peer Award. 2018.
    This freshman GPA award is conferred to students in the top five percent of their class with 14+ credits.
  • William J. Branstrom Freshman Prize. 2017.
    This award was part of the Lear Corporation Open Innovation engineering competiton.
  • Chancellor’s Scholarship Award. 2017.
    This full tuition freshman scholarship is awarded for academic merit.

Mathematics

  • University of Michigan - Dearborn Mathematics Honors Scholar. 2021.
  • Carl Rasmussen Award for Excellence in Mathematics. 2020.
  • Mathematics competitions:
    • 2020 Wiiliam Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, 10 Points.
    • 2020 Michigan Autumn Takehome Challenge, 1st Place.
    • 2020 Lower Michigan Math Competition, 1st Place.
    • 2019 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, 13 Points.
    • 2019 Michigan Autumn Takehome Challenge, 4th Place.
    • 2019 Lower Michigan Math Competition, 3rd Place.
    • 2018 Wiiliam Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, 10 Points.  

Writing

  • University of Michigan - Dearborn Scientific Writing Award, 3rd Place. 2019.
    Title: Using Writing Center Data for Decision Making
  • University of Michigan - Dearborn Creative Nonfiction Writing Award, 3rd Place. 2019.
    Title: Putnam Up: A Small University’s Fight Against a Giant Exam
  • University of Michigan - Dearborn Bill Linn Fiction Prize, 1st Place. 2018.
    Title: Entering a Transportation Hub
  • University of Michigan - Dearborn Honors Writing Award, 2nd Place. 2018.
    Title: Interpretations of Suffering and Fate Through Biblical and Greek Tragedy  
     

Conference Attendance

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