About

Thank you for visiting my website! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Simon Levin, Naomi Leonard, and Corina Tarnita. Born in Japan, I grew up in Tokyo, went to high school just outside of NYC and in northeast Italy, and completed my undergraduate degree at Yale University.

As a mathematical biologist and an applied mathematician, I use tools from evolutionary game theory, dynamical systems, and network science to explore mathematical and computational models of collective and emergent behavior in social systems. I am especially interested in understanding how inter-individual differences and population structures influence and are influenced by collective dynamics. My recent and current projects have focused on self-organized division of labor in ant colonies, hierarchies in adaptive networks, and cooperation and polarization in group-structured populations, among others.

As a teacher, I strive to practice inclusive teaching in undergraduate classrooms. I am a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, and I also serve as a Resident Graduate Student in First College, one of the undergraduate residential colleges at Princeton. As a member of the Princeton Women in STEM Leadership Council (WSTEM), I work with campus partners to foster conversations about diversity and inclusion in STEM at Princeton.

Please feel free to contact me at [first name] dot [last name] at [princeton] dot [edu].

Recent News

• March 2022: I gave a talk at AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting.
• January 2022: “Tuning cooperative behavior in games with nonlinear opinion dynamics” led by Shinkyu Park and co-authored with Anastasia Bizyaeva, Alessio Franci, Naomi Leonard is now published in IEEE Control Systems Letters!
• December 2021: “Interindividual cooperation mediated by partisanship complicates Madison’s cure for ‘mischiefs of faction’” with Yphtach Lelkes, Simon Levin, and Corina Tarnita is now published in PNAS!
• December 2021: I gave a talk at Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Winter Meeting.
• August 2021: Phil Chodrow, Nicole Eikmeier, Dan Larremore and I published an article in SIAM News. Check it out!
• July 2021: I gave a talk at Networks 2021. Recording available here for registered attendees.
• June 2021: “Response thresholds alone cannot explain empirical patterns of division of labor in social insects” with co-first author Yuko Ulrich, Chris Tokita, Jonathan Saragosti, Vikram Chandra, Corina Tarnita, and Daniel Kronauer is now published in PLoS Biology!
• June 2021: WiNS is organizing a satellite workshop at Networks 2021. Follow us on Twitter for updates.
• May 2021: I gave a talk at SIAM Conf. on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS21).
• May 2021: Honored to have our paper on emergent hierarchies in endorsement networks featured in a PNAS commentary!
• May 2021: I gave a Theoretical Ecology Lab Tea talk with Sebastián Michel-Mata.
• April 2021: “Emergence of hierarchy in networked endorsement dynamics” with Phil Chodrow, Nicole Eikmeier, and Dan Larremore is now published in in PNAS!
• March 2021: I am serving as the Communications Secretary for the Women in Network Science (WiNS) Society for 2021–2022. Follow us on Twitter, and please feel free to reach out to me with any questions about WiNS!