Teaching

Advising

Postdocs

  1. Eleanor McSpirit (Fall 2024- Spring 2026). Winner of Vanderbilt 2025 Chair's Teaching Award. First position after Vanderbilt: Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
  2. Andreas Mono (Fall 2023- Spring 2026)
  3. Ian Wagner 2019-2021. First position after Vanderbilt: Postdoc at the University of Cologne.
  4. Angelica Babei 2019-2020. Positions first year after Vanderbilt: Postdoctoral Fellow at the CRM thematic semester "Cohomology in Arithmetic" (Fall), Postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College, as part of the Simons Collaboration on Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory, and Computation (Spring).

Graduate Students

  1. Jayashree Kalita (2024-present).
  2. Zachary Tripp (2018-2021), winner of 2022 Bjarni Jónsson graduate student research prize from the Vanderbilt Mathematics department. First position after Vanderbilt: Software Engineer at Digital Insight Games.

Undergraduate Research

    Supervised undergraduate honors theses obtaining highest honors for Kevin Gomez and Madelynn Roche at Vanderbilt University (both finished in 2022) and Joshua Hunt (finished in 2023). Supervised honors theses for Binh Ho and Ethan Sherman (both finished in 2024).

    Since January 2019, I have been running the Nashville Math Circle, for middle and high schoolers (joint with Alice Mark since Fall 2020).

    The following students were advised in the Hamilton Trust Summer Internship Programme 2017 at Trinity College Dublin.

  1. Taillte May
  2. Conall McCabe
  3. Ronan O'Gorman

The following projects were advised in my Cologne Young Researchers in Number Theory Program 2015.

  1. Alexandru Ciolan and Robert Neiss, On the convergence of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction and its generalization, Research in Number Theory, (2015) 1:15.
  2. Minjoo Jang and Steffan Löbrich, Radial Limits of the Universal Mock Theta Function $g_3$, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, accepted for publication.
  3. Joschka Braun, Johannes Buck, and Johannes Girsch, Class invariants for non-holomorphic modular functions arising from modular forms of negative weight, Research in Number Theory, (2015) 1:21.

PhD Thesis Defense Committees
Nathaniel Tenpas, 2024, Vanderbilt University
Hamed Mousavi, 2022, Georgia Tech
Jun Yang, 2021, Vanderbilt University
Joshua Drewitt (external reviewer), 2021, University of Nottingham
Ahram Feigenbaum,2019, Vanderbilt Universiity
René Olivetto, 2014, University of Cologne
Michael Mertens, 2014, University of Cologne
Vanderbilt Undergraduate Thesis Defense Committees
Evelyn Zhang, 2025
Alberto Magaña, 2025
Jiaming Zhang, 2025
Will Fowlkes, 2025
Jeffrey Cheng, 2022
Qianhan Liu, 2019
Co-advised with Professor Bringmann:
Diploma Theses Johanna Dahlem, 2013-2014
Ben Engel, 2013-2014
Master's Theses Miriam Weingarten, graduated Spring 2014
Roland Mainka, graduated Winter 2013
Bachelor's ThesesDennis Khaskin, graduated Summer 2014

REU in Number Theory at Emory University organized by Ken Ono

Taught and advised in the summers of 2013, 2018, and 2019.

Other students advised:

  1. Yeong-Wook Kwon (Ph.D. student at Sungkyunkwan University)
  2. Libby Taylor (undergraduate at Georgia Tech)
  3. Joshua Males (graduate student at University of Cologne)




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