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from this webpage with garbage. I mean it!
I like to think about topology,
probability, and computing.
I am also invested in quantitative justice, studying
civil and voting rights through mathematical, legal, and
cultural scholarship.
Previously, I worked as data scientist and contributor at the
MGGG Redistricting Lab
(now the Data and Democracy Lab), a nonpartisan research
organization supported by the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts
University (now the Data and Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Chicago).
The Lab does research, writes software,
and works with organizations to explore how math can be used in the
name of civil rights. Over the past half-decade, we have curated a significant
body of work, including academic research, technical reports, court
testimony, and flagship sofware like
GerryChain, Districtr,
and GerryTools.
In Fall 2024, I was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship. In Spring 2026, I was awarded the Clarke Family Award for Research
Excellence in Analysis, Algebra, and Topology.
The dual graph of a Congressional plan, zoomed in on Oklahoma City, OK.
Whether we use exact or approximated local data, we get the same
global outcomes.
A comparison of Glauber (left) and Swendsen-Wang (right) dynamics
for the three-state Potts model on a \(64 \times 64\) sublattice
of \(\mathbb Z^2\). Each Markov chain targets the Potts measure
\( \mu(\sigma) \propto e^{-\beta \mathbf H(\sigma)}\), where \(\sigma\)
is an assignment of colors to vertices and \(\mathbf H(\sigma)\)
counts the number of edges whose colors disagree. In the gifs above,
each frame represents a single \(\sigma\).
Bond percolation on a flat 2-torus \(\mathbb T^2\). In this experiment, we've
"homologically percolated" when we encounter a giant cycle,
a cycle that wraps itself around one of the "holes"
in the torus. We find when these giant cycles are born by computing
the persistent homology of the filtration \(\{T_k\}\) formed
by adding edges in a uniformly random order. Giant cycles are
equivalently essential cycles, basis elements of the first
homology group \(\mathbf{H}_1(\mathbb T^2)\). Reproduced
from here.
A giant cycle of \(\mathbf{H}_2(\mathbb T^4)\), where we percolate on 2-cells
("plaquettes") on the 4-fold torus \(\mathbb T^4\). Reproduced
from here.
Two links (embeddings of \(S^1\) in \(S^3\)) with linking number \(2\).
Basis of loops in the dual of a \(2\)-dimensional relative spanning tree.
Aggregating Community Maps. Chambers et al. Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), November 2022.
