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 2026: Real Analysis 2 (MTH 5111), Partial Differential Equations (MTH 5230)

Selected Publications

A continuation criterion for the Landau equation with very soft and Coulomb potentials (with C. Solomon), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 2026. 

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

Regularity and nondegeneracy for nonlocal Bernoulli problems with variable kernels (with E. Teixeira), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2025.

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

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

See my website for a complete publication list.

Recognition & Awards

Faculty Excellence Award for Research, MSE Department, 2025

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