Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Arizona, 2011.
B.Sc., Honors Mathematics, University of Tennessee, 2006.
Academic Employment:
Associate Professor, Iowa State University, 2020-Present.
Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, 2015-2020.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, Spring 2017 (on LWOP from ISU).
Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, October 2015.
Assistant Professor, Drake University, 2014-2015.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University, 2011-2014.
Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, GK-12 Fellow, VIGRE Fellow, University of Arizona, 2006-2011.
Honors and Funding:
NSF Grant DMS-2246491, 2023-Present ($245,420.00).
Simons MP-TSM-00002755, 2023-Present ($42,000.00).
NSF Grant DMS-1855504, 2019-2023 ($175,397.00).
NSF Grant DMS-1612898, 2016-2020 ($96,055.00).
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, Member 2016-Present, Executive Committee Member 2020-2023.
Students:
Zachary Brennan, Ph.D., current.
Shimaa Elesaely, Ph.D, current.
Jessica Swenson, Ph.D., current.
Dante Sorrentino, Ph.D., current.
Bailey Hall, Jacskon Hebner, Denis Selyuzhitsky, Kevin Wong, John Wright, Summer 2023 ISU REU. Co-advised by Thomas Griffin.
Evan Camrud, Ph.D. 2022, now Lecturer and Visiting Research Scholar at Middlebury College.
Jina Kim, Ph.D. 2022, now tenure-track assistant professor at Trinity University.
Peter Clark, Matthew Rayman, Dante Sorrentino, ISMART Research Program for Undergraduates, Iowa State University, Spring 2019.
Daniel Deeter, Ann Samuelson, Conor Wells, Undergraduate Stochastic Dynamics Research Group, Drake University, Spring 2015.
Timothy Chang, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Duke University, 2012-2013.
Andrew Gao, Math-Bio REU Student, Duke University, Summer 2013.
Postdocs:
Hung Nguyen, 2018-2019, now tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Tennessee--Knoxville.
Teaching at Iowa State:
Math 104, Introduction to Probability, Fall 2016, Fall 2017.
Math 165, Calculus I, Spring 2024.
Math 201, Introduction to Proofs, Spring 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2021.
Math 207, Introduction to Linear Algebra, Spring 2020.
Math 266, Elementary Differential Equations, Spring 2016.
Math 365, Complex Variables, Spring 2024.
Math 414, Real Analysis I, Fall 2020.
Math 415, Real Analysis II, Spring 2020.
Math 501, Introduction to Real Analysis, Fall 2020.
Math 515, Real Analysis I, Fall 2017.
Math 516, Real Analysis II, Spring 2018.
Math 519, Methods of Applied Math I, Fall 2024
Math 554, Introduction to Stochastic Processes, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Fall 2023.
Math 557, ODEs and Dynamics, Fall 2019.
Math 610, Early Graduate Research: Mixing Times of Markov Chains, Spring 2021.
Math 645, Advanced Stochastic Processes, Spring 2019.
Math 655, Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, Fall 2021.