Hi, I'm Skye, a mathematician from Brooklyn.

I'm on my way to Taiwan!

I received a Huayu Enrichment Scholarship from the Taiwanese government for German students to study Mandarin Chinese for one year in Taipei starting September 2026.

What was my job? 

I played with shapes! I arranged, folded, and colored various geometric shapes to explore the bounds of what can be built. I travelled around the world to tell people stories about exciting new discoveries.

In October 2025, I became a Master's student at TU Dresden in the Computational Life Sciences track of the Computational Modeling and Simulation program with support from the School of Embedded Composite Artificial Intelligence.

In the past...

In September 2024, I began a year-long research and outreach fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, supported by two grants. 

My research involved changing the topology of polyominoids through rigid origami.

My outreach involved developing an educational museum exhibition about quantum computing in the format of an arcade video game with IMAGINARY.

I co-organized two conferences during my fellowship, one called OURFAM which aims to help marginalized math students build their math careers and had 250+ attendees, and a local Queer in Math Day in Leipzig at MPI MiS.

I also supervised two student internships, one about designing a video game to explore new research on sliding puzzle configuration spaces, and the other about quantum computing education.