Educational Background

PhD, Mathematics, New York University, 2014

MS, Mathematics, New York University, 2011

BS, Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2009

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, 2024--present

Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, 2017--2024

L. E. Dickson Instructor, University of Chicago, 2014--2017

Current Courses

Fall 2025: Introductory Analysis (MTH 4101), Partial Differential Equations (MTH 5230)

Selected Publications

Classical Solutions of the Boltzmann equation with irregular initial data (with C. Henderson and A. Tarfulea), Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure, 2025.

Global existence for an isotropic modification of the Boltzmann equation, Journal of Functional Analysis, 2024.

Optimal domains for elliptic eigenvalue problems with rough coefficients (with E. Teixeira), SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 2024.

Solutions to the non-cutoff Boltzmann equation uniformly near a Maxwellian (with L. Silvestre), Mathematics in Engineering, 2023.

Non-existence of some approximately self-similar singularities for the Landau, Vlasov-Poisson-Landau, and Boltzmann equations (with J. Bedrossian and M. Gualdani), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2022.

See my website for a complete publication list.

Recognition & Awards

National Science Foundation Grant DMS-2511236, 2025--2028

National Science Foundation Grant DMS-2213407, 2022--2024

Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant, 2021--2026

ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 2019