I am a fifth-year PhD student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where I work in computer graphics and geometry processing. I am a member of the Geometry Collective and advised by Keenan Crane.

If you're interested in learning about my research, I'd recommend starting with the "project pages", which contain blog-style explanations of my published works. In these explanations, I also aim to describe all the approaches that didn't work (see, for example, our supplementary document Perspectives on Winding Numbers about winding numbers and solid angle.)

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Miscellaneous

In 2024, I was honored to be named a WiGRAPH Rising Star! You can read about the work of more graphics researchers here.

I used to be rather serious about distance running, but had 8+ injuries between 2015 – 2020. I still enjoy the sport as a whole and especially enjoy the running community in Pittsburgh. I'm a proud organizer of the Random Distance Run at CMU. On Tuesdays, you can usually find me with the Pittsburgh Pharaoh Hounds. (I recommend the Hounds to runners of any level looking to improve, but there is no shortage of other running clubs around Pittsburgh!) I also am the women's captain for the Carnegie Mellon Club XC team, which competes in cross country and track & field at the NIRCA level.

I like to write crossword puzzles, especially Schrödinger (quantum) puzzles. I occasionally post smaller puzzles on my Crosshare blog.

I occasionally make art for the department; past designs here.

Previously, I graduated from Caltech with a B.S. in Applied & Computational Mathematics. The background to my website is taken from a photograph I took from the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains in Pasadena, California.