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I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of Bucknell University. My passions are STEM education, the mathematical foundations of programming, and youth outreach in math/computer science. I used to be an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of St. Mary's College of California.

I completed my PhD in 2023 as a part of the PPLV group in the Computer Science Department of University College London. I had the privilege of being supervised by Alexandra Silva and Jurriaan Rot. The subject of my thesis, Coalgebraic Completeness Theorems for Effectful Process Algebras, was a generalization of the completeness theorem for Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests (GKAT), presented by Smolka et al. in 2019, to any process algebra consisting of action sequencing, an algebraic effect, and basic recursion.

I am generally intereted in the algebraic, coalgebraic, and logical foundations of program semantics. My research aims to apply the theory of iteration, monad presentations, and logics for coinductive relations to process algebra. Nonstandard approaches to program semantics are also highly entertaining to me (I think a lot about fractals and making music with transition systems).

If we happen share interests, please write! I'm always happy to make a new pen pal.

Below is a picture of a very much passed out Mabel.

A cute dog passed out.

Outside of theoretical computer science, I make electronic music, think about rescue dogs, and do a bit of climbing.

News

10/2024 In September of last year, Tobias Kappé found a hole in the completeness proof for skip-free GKAT that we published at ESOP 2023 along with Alexandra Silva. Thankfully, we had another completeness proof (using a different technique) in our pocket, so we knew that the result was still correct, at least. But, we wanted to fix the proof technique we used in that paper, so we went to work. Soon after, we produced the completeness proof that appeared in my thesis. We just put a new and improved, polished and presentable version of the paper on arXiv. The proof ended up being much harder (and even more interesting) than we thought.
07/2024 Along with Corina Cirstea, Larry Moss, Tori Noquez, Alexandra Silva, and Ana Sokolova, I took part in the Summer Research in Mathematics program at SLMath (formerly MSRI) in Berkeley. We are very happy that we did, in fact, prove our theorem (more news to come, hopefully).
07/2024 As of today, I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Bucknell University!
05/2024 I had a lovely and productive time thinking about various program logics with Jurrian Rot and Tokias Kappe in the Netherlands, and I gave a talk about star fragments in theLLAMA Seminar at the ILLC.
01/2024 My thesis corrections were finally approved and my thesis is now somewhere in the UCL database! If you find it, please let me know, because I haven't been able to. I put a copy of it here instead.
10/2023 I was invited to give a talk at the Boston Computation Club! It was a tutorial on coequations based on my paper with Fred Dahlqvist.
09/2023 I gave a talk on transition systems, generative music, and fractals at the Saint Mary's College of California Math Colloquium.
07/2023 As of today, I am an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at St Mary's College!
06/2023 At CALCO, Victoria Noquez presented our framework for interpreting certain process terms as recipes for fractal sets. Based on the paper Fractals from Regular Behaviours, authored by myself, Victoria Noquez, and Larry Moss. Actually, we won Best Paper at CALCO!
06/2023 My PhD viva took place. I passed!
04/2023 I presented a completeness theorem for Skip-free Guarded Kleene Algebra with Tests at ESOP, based on the paper by Tobias Kappé, myself, and Alexandra Silva.
04/2023 Taught a class on Sonic Pi as part of the youth outreach event Expanding Your Horizons.
02/2023 I was an invited speaker in the Cornell University Programming Languages Discussion Group (PLDG).
11/2022 I was an invited speaker in the Boston University POPV seminar. While I was there, I got to talk shop with Cheng Zhang and Arthur Azevedo de Amorim about commutative Kleene algebra (wow that stuff is hard).
11/2022 I visited Larry Moss and Victoria Noquez at Indiana University Bloomington. I was also an invited speaker in the IU Bloomington Logic Seminar, where I talked about my recipes for process calculi.
08/2022 Research visit from Tobias Kappé. Took an honest crack at proving completeness of GKAT, and we got as far as completeness for skip-free GKAT!
08/2022 Had a blast presenting some monads on Pos at BLAST 2022.
07/2022 Presented the processes parametrised by framework at ICALP 2022.
05/2022 Research visit from Wojtek Rozowski.
04/2022 Research visit from Jana Wagemaker. Started thinking about how to add hypotheses to GKAT.
04/2022 Internship at Cornell University begins.
02/2022 Day trip to Rice University, in Houston, Texas, to visit Konstaninos Mamouras. Ate authentic Texas BBQ and gave a lecture on the free algebra construction.
02/2022 Appointment at Radboud University ended. Unofficially borrowed an office at LSU, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
09/2021 Became a guest researcher in the Software Sciences group at Radboud University, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
08/2021 Presented at MFPS 2021 and then promptly slept in for Fred Dahlqvist's presentation of our Pearl submission at CALCO 2021 (In my defense, it was very early in the morning because I was on the other side of the world!).
07/2021 Presented at ICALP 2021.
09/2019 Started my PhD studies with the PPLV group at UCL, in London, UK.