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.

Prove that for all sufficiently large positive integers $n$, any graph on $n$ vertices with at least $n + n^{0.51}$ edges necessarily contains at least one thousand simple cycles of equal length.

A new problem might be posted here on February 13th, 2023.

Previously posted problems can be found here.