I am a part-time Senior Analyst and PhD Candidate in Mathematics, with a goal of applying the skills I have learned through study and research in industry. I pride myself on my ability to notice problems that need solving and produce high-quality solutions.
I have worked across several areas of the unit, including Youth Justice, Child Protection and Family Violence. My usual duties include:
I taught mathematics classes at UTAS, including discrete mathematics, linear algebra and first-year calculus. Duties included planning and delivering lessons and marking assignments.
I worked in the mathematical biology/phylogenetics group as a casual researcher at UTAS, writing code to perform simulations.
My PhD project aims to develop efficient algebraic methods for computing evolutionary distance between circular genomes.
I have published papers during my degree and have presented my work at several conferences, including AustMS, ANZIAM and Phylomania, as well as the Student Symposium in Combinatorics where I gave a plenary talk as an invited speaker.
My thesis investigated matrix rank based approaches to inferring phylogenetic trees from DNA sequence data.
I completed a combined degree, allowing me to obtain both qualifications, including 3 majors within 4 years.
I wrote a software package in Python to perform simulations in order to evaluate the performance of a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. The paper also includes analyses of genetic sequence data.
This paper discusses combinatorial aspects of circular genomes and genome rearrangement events under an algebraic framework.
A Python package for estimating evolutionary distances between circular genomes.
A Python package that implements matrix rank based approaches for inferring evolutionary trees from DNA sequence data.
I received a scholarship to complete a summer project on evaluating performance of a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. I continued this work as a research assistant and later as an honours student.
I received a scholarship to complete a summer project on modelling real hospital bed queue data as a Markov birth-death process.