EMPLOYMENT
2018–
Associate Professor, Auburn University
2019–2020
Associate Chair and Undergraduate Program Officer, Auburn University
2013–2018
Assistant Professor, Auburn University
2011–2013
2009–2011
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
Summer 2023
CNRS, ICB Laboratory "Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne," University of Burgundy
Spring 2021
Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Fall 2018
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN), Warsaw, Poland
Summer 2018
University of Belfort-Montbelliard, France
Fall 2014
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, CA
Summer 2014
National Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (NIMS), Daejeon, S. Korea
April 2011
Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
EDUCATION
2009
Ph.D. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Advisor:
Dr. Joseph M. Landsberg
Dissertation: G-varieties and the principal minors of symmetric matrices
2003
B.A. Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Advisor:
Dr. Calvin Stubbins
Honors Thesis: Phase space quantum mechanics
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Tensors and applications of Algebraic Geometry and
Representation Theory to Quantum Information Theory,
Signal Processing, Algebraic Statistics, Computer Vision, and Foundations of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence.
GRANTS | AWARDS
2020-2022
Thomas Jefferson Fund FACE Foundation Award
2018
NSF CBMS Grant
2009-2011
NSF IRFP Grant
2006-2009
GAANN Fellowship
2004-2005
NSF VIGRE Fellowship