Fun Facts

I wrote a textbook covering material germane to a first-semester organic chemistry course. My bachelor's thesis in math was on a very niche topic called Hopf-Galois theory and was over one hundred pages long. I have a fish tank: many shrimp, many guppies, and many snails. It will one day grow into a freshwater crustacean tank.

About Me

I am a mathematics PhD candidate with an interest in number theory, specifically in applications of the Taniyama-Weil conjecture, j-invariants, and automorphic forms. I recently completed both my bachelor's and master's degrees in pure and applied mathematics at Boston University.

Experience

As an undergraduate at Boston University, I discovered a lack of social spaces for my fellow math students to congregate, make friends, and engage with problems. As such, I created the Boston University Math Club, which is still going strong three years in the running.

In high school, I created an organization dedicated to peer tutoring, whereby upperclassmen could volunteer to tutor underclassmen in topics or subjects they felt comfortable with. In this way, younger students who felt intimida

Approach

In my initial brush with pedagogy, while in high school as a peer tutor, and while writing my organic chemistry textbook, I thought deeply about learning how people learn, and how best to tutor. In my view, there is no one way to tutor. The specific approach and methodology must be tailored to each individual; as such, effective tutoring begins with a concrete, comprehensive understanding of the tutee.