Short Bio

Education:

The University of British Columbia, Ph.D in Mathematics (2008)

Dissertation: Thue Equations and Related Topics
Advisor: Professor Michael Bennett

Simon Fraser University, M.Sc. in Mathematics (2004)

Dissertation: Characterizing Cyclotomic Littlewood Polynomials
Advisor: Professor Stephen Choi

Sharif University of Technology, B.Sc in Mathematics (2002)

Postdoctoral Positions:

Centre de recherches mathematiques, Montreal (2011-2012), Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn(2009-2011), and briefly at Queen’s University, Kingston (2008).

Partly supported by an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Tenured Positions:

Full Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 2022-

Associate Professor, University of Oregon, 2018-

Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, 2012-2018.

Research Grants and Awards:

Michler Fellowship at Cornell, Fall semester 2021.

Problems in the Geometry of Numbers and Diophantine Analysis, NSF award number DMS-2001281 (2020-2023) and DMS-2327098 (2023-2024)

Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians (2019-2024)

Modern Approaches for Classical Diophantine Problems, NSF award number DMS-1601837 (2016-2019)

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2010-2012)

Leibniz Fellowship,  Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (2010)