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Having just arrived at UCSC, I am not working on any projects at the moment. I am currently doing coursework in Abstract Algebra and Algorithms and Complexity, and I look forward to becoming more aqquainted with the amazing research groups we have here at Santa Cruz. I’ll keep you all posted when I start working on something!

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Over the past yea (my senior year at UCSB), I worked closely with Professor Eric Vigoda to complete an undergraduate thesis, titled Quantifying Gerrymandering with Simulated Annealing. I joined Professor Vigoda’s research group with the goal of implementing a redistricting markov chain to test Congressional districting fairness. We focused our efforts on generating a distribution of viable districting plans for the state of Texas, comparing the election results of the enacted plan to the results produced from our distribution for the 2020 US House Congressional vote. The goal was to quantify the fairness of any given districting plan, allowing for a better legal metric necessary to prove that a plan is gerrymandered. We came up with some pretty interesting results! If you want to learn more, check out the poster below!