Education

• Ph.D. Mathematics, 2011, UC Berkeley, (thesis), advisor: Bernd Sturmfels
• B.A. Mathematics and Neuroscience, 2007, Oberlin College, OH

Academic Positions

• 2025 - present, Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• 2023 - 2025, Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• 2021 - 2023, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• 2020 - 2021, von Neumann Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ
• 2015 - 2020, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• Fall 2014, Research Fellow, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, CA
• 2011 - 2014, Hildebrandt Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
• Summer 2011, Visiting Researcher, Universität Konstanz, Germany

Grants

• 2020 - 2025, NSF CAREER: Determinantal, hyperbolic, and log-concave polynomials in theory and applications
• 2018 - 2019, NSF Conference Grant, Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics
• 2016 - 2020, NSF Standard Grant, Comp. Math., Real algebraic and combinatorial structures in matrix spaces
• 2012 - 2015, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Honors and awards

• Michael and Sheila Held Prize, 2025
• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2024
• von Neumann Fellowship, IAS, 2020-21
• Sloan Research Fellowship, 2020
• Best paper award, 51st Annual Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2019
• Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley, 2011
• Rebecca Cary Orr Memorial Prize, Oberlin College, 2007