Scientific organizing
Building research spaces across mathematics and biology
A central part of my work is bringing people together around emerging research areas—through semester programs, workshops, minisymposia, graduate research communities, and collaborative working groups.
These activities connect algebraic statistics, applied algebraic geometry, evolutionary biology, ecology, chemical reaction networks, and graduate education.
Upcoming activities
May 17–22, 2026Chemical Reaction Networks in Hawaiʻi 2026
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Conference organized with Daniele Cappelletti, Jinsu Kim, Chuang Xu, and Polly Yu. June 8–12, 2026National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology Focused Research Group
Chicago, Illinois. Title: Identifiability and indistinguishability of nonlinear systems. July 6–10, 2026SIAM Annual Meeting
Minisymposium on Algebraic Biology, Organizer with Cash Bortner. July 2026FOCM 2026
Speaker, Workshop on Computational Algebraic Geometry. July 2026Collaborate@ICERM
ICERM, Brown University. Title: Reconstructing Phylogenetic Networks. Fall 2026Graduate Research Community in Hawaiʻi
UH Mānoa. A semester-long graduate research community. Fall 2026IPAM Workshop I: Numerical Algebraic Geometry
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. May 17–21, 2027AIM SQuaRE
Title: Maximum Likelihood Geometry for Statistical Network Models.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Conference organized with Daniele Cappelletti, Jinsu Kim, Chuang Xu, and Polly Yu. June 8–12, 2026National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology Focused Research Group
Chicago, Illinois. Title: Identifiability and indistinguishability of nonlinear systems. July 6–10, 2026SIAM Annual Meeting
Minisymposium on Algebraic Biology, Organizer with Cash Bortner. July 2026FOCM 2026
Speaker, Workshop on Computational Algebraic Geometry. July 2026Collaborate@ICERM
ICERM, Brown University. Title: Reconstructing Phylogenetic Networks. Fall 2026Graduate Research Community in Hawaiʻi
UH Mānoa. A semester-long graduate research community. Fall 2026IPAM Workshop I: Numerical Algebraic Geometry
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA. May 17–21, 2027AIM SQuaRE
Title: Maximum Likelihood Geometry for Statistical Network Models.
Recent past activities
2025
Local organizer, Short Course & Workshop on Scientific Machine Learning and Applications, UH Mānoa, organized with Long Chen, Wenrui Hao, Guang Lin, and Yahong Yan.
Local organizer, Short Course & Workshop on Scientific Machine Learning and Applications, UH Mānoa, organized with Long Chen, Wenrui Hao, Guang Lin, and Yahong Yan.
2025
Local organizer, Polarized Varieties and their Applications, UH Mānoa, organized with Ivan Cheltsov and Julius Ross.
Local organizer, Polarized Varieties and their Applications, UH Mānoa, organized with Ivan Cheltsov and Julius Ross.
2025
Plenary speaker, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, with a talk on computational algebraic geometry for evolutionary biology.
Plenary speaker, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, with a talk on computational algebraic geometry for evolutionary biology.
2024
Organizer and semester participant for ICERM’s program on Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenomics.
Organizer and semester participant for ICERM’s program on Theory, Methods, and Applications of Quantitative Phylogenomics.
2024
Organized Algebraic Methods in Phylogenetics at UH Mānoa, a research workshop centered on projects for junior participants.
Organized Algebraic Methods in Phylogenetics at UH Mānoa, a research workshop centered on projects for junior participants.
2023
Organizer and visiting research associate for IMSI’s program on Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World.
Organizer and visiting research associate for IMSI’s program on Algebraic Statistics and Our Changing World.
2022
Organized Algebraic Statistics 2022 and the Workshop on Algebra of Phylogenetic Networks at UH Mānoa.
Organized Algebraic Statistics 2022 and the Workshop on Algebra of Phylogenetic Networks at UH Mānoa.
Selected organizing themes
Research communities
Graduate Research Communities in Hawaiʻi bring students together for sustained collaborative work, professional development, and mentoring.
Interdisciplinary mathematics
Workshops and conferences connect algebra, statistics, computation, ecology, evolutionary biology, and systems biology.
Sense of Place
Events at UH Mānoa use Hawaiʻi as a meaningful setting for building community, research networks, and student opportunities.