Welcome! Below you'll find pictures of some of the graduate students, postdocs, and other researchers that I have worked with in my research. I enjoy working in collaboration and mentoring students. If you are an undergraduate or graduate student interested in working on a project with me, please email me or stop by my office to chat. You can find some career advice (including advice on choosing an advisor) at the Mathematics Students Resource.

Graduate students

Rebecca Winarski
Ph.D. 2014
Asst. Prof. Holy Cross

Hyunshik Shin
Ph.D. 2014
Lecturer Georgia State

Shane Scott
Ph.D. 2018
Braid

Justin Lanier
Ph.D. 2020
NSF Postdoc Chicago
Postdoc U Sydney

Dan Minahan
NSF Postdoc Chicago

Roberta Shapiro
Ph.D. 2024
Postdoc Michigan

Katherine Booth
Ph.D. 2025 (expected)
NSF Postdoc Chicago

Shuxian Song
2023-present

Postdocs & Visitors

Öykü Yurttaş
2014-2015
& 2022

Balázs Strenner
2016-2019

Kevin Kordek
2017-2020

Yvon Verberne
2020-2023

Abdoul Karim Sane
2022-

Ryan Dickmann
2022-

Sahana Balasubramanya
(2023)

Collaborators

Ian Agol
Berkeley

Inanc Baykur
UMass

Bob Bell
Michigan State

Jim Belk
Glasgow

Mladen Bestvina
Utah

Joan Birman
Columbia

Tara Brendle
Glasgow

Jeff Brock
Yale

Noah Caplinger
Chicago

Lei Chen
Maryland

Leah Childers
Pittsburg

Matt Clay
Arkansas

Benson Farb
Chicago

Allen Hatcher
Cornell

Djun Kim
ImageX Media

Chris Leininger
Rice

Jon McCammond
Santa Barbara

Johanna Mangahas
Buffalo

Bill Menasco
Buffalo

Andrew Putman
Notre Dame

Saul Schleimer
Warwick

Steven Spallone
Pune

Group Photo at Tech Topology Conference 2017