# Welcome!

I am a fourth-year PhD candidate studying Theoretical Computer Science at MIT, grateful to be advised by both Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Ryan Williams.

I am broadly interested in fine-grained complexity and algorithm design, and especially enjoy thinking about problems concerning graph algorithms, string algorithms, and applications of algebraic methods in computer science.

Previously, I received a B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, where I was fortunate to have several excellent mentors. In particular, I am indebted to Mohamed Omar for helping foster my interest in combinatorics, Jim Boerkoel for showing me how fascinating computer science research could be, and Ran Libeskind-Hadas for sparking my interest in complexity theory.

You can contact me using the email listed here .

# Publications

ITCS 2022

## Near-Optimal Quantum Algorithms for String Problems

###### with Ryan Williams

FOCS 2021

If you enjoyed this paper, you may also enjoy this beautiful sequel work by Till Tantau.

## Improved Approximation for Longest Common Subsequence over Small Alphabets

###### with Virginia Vassilevska Williams

ICALP 2021

The main open problem raised by this work was resolved in this paper by Xiaoyu He and Ray Li.

ICALP 2021

## Quantifying controllability in temporal networks with uncertainty

###### with Savana Ammons, Maggie Li, Michael Gao, Lindsay Popowski, and Jim Boerkoel

Artificial Intelligence 2020 (Volume 289)

## Quantifying Degrees of Controllability in Temporal Networks with Uncertainty

###### with Savana Ammons, Maggie Li, and Jim Boerkoel

ICAPS 2019 · Runner-Up for Best Student Paper

## On a Convex Set with Nondifferentiable Metric Projection

###### with Nguyen Mau Nam and J. J. P. Veerman

Optimization Letters 2015 (Volume 9)

# Problem of the Fortnight

During high school I participated in a few math contests, and in undergrad I wrote several problems for the Caltech Harvey Mudd Math Competition and USA Math Talent Search. Every two weeks I will post a recreational (non-research) math problem which I encountered during this time (and particularly enjoyed) below.

Convergence Only on Primes

Does there exist an infinite sequence of complex numbers $a_1, a_2, \dots$ such that for any positive integer $p$, the sum

$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} a_n^p$$

converges if and only if $p$ is prime?

A new problem will be posted here on December 17th, 2022.

Previously posted problems can be found here.