About

I am a Hedrick Assistant Professor and NSERC postdoctoral fellow in Mathematics at UCLA. For the winter 2010 semester, I was at MSRI for the semester program homology theories of knots and links.

I completed my PhD in Mathematics at UQÀM (as part of CIRGET), supervised by Steve Boyer (with additional direction from André Joyal). I received my MSc in Mathematics at UBC under the direction of Dale Rolfsen.

I work in the topology group at UCLA. My area of research is low-dimensional topology. Specifically, I study Khovanov homology and Heegaard Floer homology. My work aims to better understand the relationship between these two theories by studying how each may be applied to problems in geometry and topology. In this, I hope to better understand how these relatively new invariants interact with natural objects in low-dimensional topology; recently this has led me to think about left-orderable groups and bordered Heegaard Floer homology.

Some more information may be found in my Curriculum Vitae.

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