| Nov 2026 | Gave a seminar talk at Virginia Commonwealth University. |
| Oct 2026 | Spoke on Graph-Theoretic Characterizations of Lifted Product Codes at the AMS Fall Central Sectional Meeting at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and gave an hour-long talk on Graphical Properties of Lifted Product Quantum LDPC Codes in the Coding Theory, Cryptography and their Applications session of the LIX Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana in Tlaxcala. |
| Sep 2026 | Participated in the BIRS workshop Bridging Theoretical Discrete Math Advancements with Open Source Resource Development in Banff, Canada. |
| Aug 2026 | Joined the 2026–27 cohort of MAA Project NExT Fellows and served on the MathFest panel Advocacy: A Shared Responsibility for Our Community. I’m also co-PI on the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative project Quantum and Post-Quantum Algorithms for Secure, High-Performance Systems. |
| Jul 2026 | Co-organized the Virginia Tech Collaboration Workshop at the VT Steger Center in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland, with Gretchen Matthews, Hiram López, Jason LeGrow and Rodrigo San-José. |
| Jun 2026 | New preprint with Ragnar Freij-Hollanti and Patricija Šapokaitė: Graphical Analysis of Lifted Product Code Constructions. I also joined the Workshop on Applications of Commutative Algebra and Coding Theory at CIMAT in Guanajuato, Mexico. |
| May 2026 | New preprint with Anthony Gómez-Fonseca, Gretchen Matthews and Tefjol Pllaha: Combinatorial Analysis of Dyadic and Quasi-Dyadic Codes. I also spoke on Graph Properties of Codes from Dyadic and Quasi-Dyadic Matrices at ILAS 2026 at Virginia Tech. |
| Apr 2026 | Participated in the AIM Workshop on Combinatorial Coding Theory in Pasadena, working on constructions of asymptotically good RAA codes and hierarchical LDPC codes. |
| Mar 2026 | Visited Aalto University in Finland as a visiting scientist and spoke in the Algebra, Number Theory, and Applications Seminar on Graphical analysis of dyadic and quasi-dyadic codes. I also co-organized the AMS Southeastern Sectional special session on Coding Theory and its Applications to Quantum Error-Correction and Cryptography with Gretchen Matthews and Rodrigo San-José. |
| Feb 2026 | Spoke on Graphical Analysis of Codes from Quasi-Dyadic Matrices at Special Applied Algebra Days at the University of South Florida, and on Combinatorial properties of quasi-dyadic codes over F2 in the Virginia Tech Applied Algebra Seminar. |
| Jan 2026 | At the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C., I co-organized the AMS Special Session on Coding Theory Trends and Modern Applications and spoke on Exploring Black-Gray-Flip for Quantum Decoding. I also began as a Virginia Tech Research and Innovation Postdoctoral Scholar. |
| Oct 2025 | Spoke on Redundancy Characterizations of QLDPC Codes at the AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting at Tulane University, and co-organized An Introduction to Magma workshop with Giuseppe Cotardo and Julia Shapiro. |
| Aug 2025 | Our paper, Effect of redundancy on syndrome-based decoding for QLDPC codes, is now available, and I presented it at the International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC 2025) at UCLA. |
| Aug 2025 | I’ve started a new position at Virginia Tech! |
| Jul 2025 | PhD Defense |