
I am a first-year mathematics PhD student at MIT passionately working on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry. I completed an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 2024 and wrote my senior thesis with advisor Prof. Barry Mazur. My recent
research was on finding conditions for elliptic curves in a certain family to have algebraic rank 1 over the rational numbers, and I presented my results at the conferences “Mordell’s conjecture 100 Years later” at MIT in July 2024 (
slides) and the AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting at Boston College in March 2026 (
slides).
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