Who I am: I am a new postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kentucky, working with Alberto Corso. I graduated from the University of Michigan under the supervision of Karen Smith. My PhD thesis was on jet schemes and truncated wedge schemes of monomial and determinantal varieties. Before that, I transferred from Pasadena City College to UC Berkeley and finished my undergraduate studies there. I did all my earlier education in Hong Kong, where I was born. In 1997, my family moved to the United States, of which I am now a citizen. I enjoy hiking, biking, badminton, origami, juggling, and community volunteering services.

Research Interests: Jet schemes, wedge schemes, computational algebra, motivic integrals.

Teaching: Math 261

Job Application Materials:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Research Statement
• Teaching Statement

Publications:

• One higher dimensional analog of jet schemes, arXiv: math.AG/0608633.
• Jet schemes of determinantal varieties, arXiv: math.AG/0608632.
• Multiplicity of jet schemes of monomial schemes, arXiv: math.AG/0607638.
• On Igusa zeta functions of monomial ideals, arXiv: math.AG/0509243.
• Polynomial Knots of Degree Five (with P. Kim and L. Stemkoski), MIT Undergraduate Journal of Mathematics, Volume 3 (2001), pg. 125 - 135.

Some Talks:

• Jet Schemes of Monomial Schemes and Determinantal Varieties, Workshop on Computational and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Fields Institute, Toronto, ON, August, 2006.
• Jet Schemes, AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Mathematicians (Poster) -- Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, TX, January, 2006.
• Codes on The Klein Quartic, Student Seminar, University of Michigan, February, 2005.
• Rational Singularities and F-rational Type, Student Seminar, University of Michigan, November, 2004.
• Vanishing Theorems and Seshadri Constants, Student Seminar, University of Michigan, October, 2003.
• Polynomial Knots of Fifth Degree, Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Math, Lincoln, NE, February, 2001.