I received my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota — Twin Cities on August 2025. My dissertation was titled "Differential Primary Decomposition for Graded Rings". My advisor was Dr. Christine Berkesch. My main area of focus is in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. My research interests include toric varieties, modules of differential operators, numerical semigroups, and free resolutions.
As a graduate teaching assistant, I taught Precalculus and both Calculus I and II. I mentored Joseph DeLuca through a Directed Reading Program at the University of Minnesota. I also mentored early-career mathematicians Sogol Cyrusian, Nzingha Joseph, Zach Medlin, Saskia Solotko, and Philip Yang during the 2024 UMN Combinatorics & Algebra REU.
Below you will find my three most recent publications. You can find a full list of publications here.
Each numerical semigroup $S$ with smallest positive element $m$ corresponds to an integer point in a polyhedral cone $C_m$, known as the Kunz cone. The faces of $C_m$ form a stratification of numerical semigroups that has been shown to respect a number of algebraic properties of $S$, including the combinatorial structure of the minimal free resolution of the defining toric ideal $I_S$. In this work, we prove that the structure of the infinite free resolution of the ground field $\Bbbk$ over the semigroup algebra $\mathbb k[S]$ also respects this stratification, yielding a new combinatorial approach to classifying homological properties like Golodness and rationality of the poincare series in this setting. Additionally, we give a complete classification of such resolutions in the special case $m = 4$, and demonstrate that the associated graded algebras do not generally respect the same stratification.
We give an overview of a Macaulay2 package for computing with the multigraded BGG correspondence. This software builds on the package BGG due to Abo-Decker-Eisenbud-Schreyer-Smith-Stillman, which concerns the standard graded BGG correspondence. In addition to implementing the multigraded BGG functors, this package includes an implementation of differential modules and their minimal free resolutions, and it contains a method for computing strongly linear strands of multigraded free resolutions.
This paper is the third in a series of manuscripts that examine the combinatorics of the Kunz polyhedron $P_m$, whose positive integer points are in bijection with numerical semigroups (cofinite subsemigroups of $\mathbb Z \geq 0$) whose smallest positive element is $m$. The faces of $P_m$ are indexed by a family of finite posets (called Kunz posets) obtained from the divisibility posets of the numerical semigroups lying on a given face. In this paper, we characterize to what extent the minimal presentation of a numerical semigroup can be recovered from its Kunz poset. In doing so, we prove that all numerical semigroups lying on the interior of a given face of $P_m$ have identical minimal presentation cardinality, and we provide a combinatorial method of obtaining the dimension of a face from its corresponding Kunz poset.