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!