I am an assistant professor in mathematics at Penn State Univeristy. I am interested in understanding the emergence of large-scale physics (which is diffusive, dissipative, and classical) from microscopic physics (which is time-reversible and classical). I am also interested in computational aspects of quantum mechanics—when is it easy to simulate physics, and when is it hard?
I completed my PhD in 2023 at Stanford University, advised by Lenya Ryzhik. In 2023-2024 I was a CLE Moore Instructor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.
In June 2025 I presented lectures on quantum diffusion at the summer school "PDE and Probability" hosted by Sorbonne Université. Here are the lecture notes.
Teaching
Current
- MATH 513, Introduction to PDE (Fall 2025)
Past
- 18.152, Introduction to PDE (Fall 2024, MIT)