I can supervise graduate students in Combinatorics & Optimization or in Pure Mathematics. These programs have different requirements. If you are interested in working with me, I am happy to discuss which department makes more sense for you.
I have supervised the following students and postdocs:
- Postdocs
- Stephan Pfannerer (2024–, University of Waterloo), co-supervised with Olya Mandelshtam
- Rotation-invariant web bases from hourglass plabic graphs
Inventiones Mathematicae 243(2), 2026, 703–804.
arXiv:2306.12501
- Promotion permutations and the Robinson--Schensted correspondence
Submitted, 16 pages.
arXiv:2510.07744
- Web bases in degree two from hourglass plabic graphs
International Mathematics Research Notices 2025(13), 2025, 1–23.
arXiv:2402.13978
- Promotion permutations for tableaux
Combinatorial Theory 4(2), Article No. 15, 2024, 56 pages.
arXiv:2306.12506
- PhD
- Timothy Miller (2024–2026, University of Waterloo), co-advised with Kevin Purbhoo
- Vertex models for the product of a permuted-basement Demazure atom and a Schur polynomial
Submitted, 38 pages.
arXiv:2503.09240
- Mike Cummings (2024–, University of Waterloo)
- Santiago Estupiñán-Salamanca (2021–, University of Waterloo), co-advised with David Wagner
- Constructed tableaux and a new shifted Littlewood–Richardson rule
Submitted, 69 pages.
arXiv:2503.14609
- A universal characterization of the shifted plactic monoid
Semigroup Forum 110(3), 2025, 566-587.
arXiv:2411.17619
- Master's
- Laura Pierson (2023–2024, University of Waterloo), co-advised with Logan Crew
University Finalist, Alumni Gold Medal
Awardee, Governor General's Gold Medal
- On the chromatic symmetric homology for star graphs
Submitted, 11 pages.
arXiv:2408.01396
- A power sum expansion for the Kromatic symmetric function
Discrete Mathematics 349(5), 2026, Paper No. 114957, 10 pages.
arXiv:2408.01395
- Proof of a K-theoretic polynomial conjecture of Monical, Pechenik, and Searles
Advances in Applied Mathematics 171, 2025, Paper No. 102959, 16 pages.
arXiv:2408.01390
- Counting induced subgraphs with the Kromatic symmetric function
Submitted, 12 pages.
arXiv:2403.15929
- Matthew St.Denis (2021–2024, University of Waterloo)
- Degrees of P-Grothendieck polynomials and regularity of Pfaffian varieties
Algebraic Combinatorics 8(4), 2025, 897-923.
arXiv:2405.17645
- Undergraduate research students
- Ron Cherny (2025, University of Waterloo)
- Kimia Shaban (2022, University of Waterloo)
Kimia is now an PhD student at the University of Toronto - Yohan Song (2022, University of Waterloo)
Yohan is now a Master's student at the University of Toronto - Miles Simmons (2021, University of Waterloo)
Miles is now an PhD student at the University of Waterloo - Rahul Ilango (2017, Rutgers University)
Rahul went on to a PhD in theoretical computer science at MIT and is now a postdoc at IAS. - Unique rectification in \(d\)-complete posets: Towards the \(K\)-theory of Kac-Moody flag varieties
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 25(4), 2018, 1-35.
arXiv:1805.02287
- Michael (Mik) Zlatin (2017, Rutgers University)
Mik went on to a PhD in algorithms, combinatorics and optimization at Carnegie Mellon and is now Assistant Professor at Pomona. - Unique rectification in \(d\)-complete posets: Towards the \(K\)-theory of Kac-Moody flag varieties
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 25(4), 2018, 1-35.
arXiv:1805.02287