Professional Service

  • National Science Foundation. Served on a panel. 01/2024 - 02/2024
  • National Science Foundation. Served on a panel. 11/2022 - 11/2022
  • National Science Foundation. Served on a panel. 12/2021 - 12/2021
  • Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS). Role: Member of the WAGS council. Serve on the WAGS council, for long term planning https://sites.google.com/a/wagsymposium.org/current/home?authuser=0. 06/2021 - present
  • Epijournal de Geometrie Algebrique. Editor. 03/01/2021 - present
  • National Science Foundation. Service on an NSF panel. 12/2020 - 12/2020
  • Fellowship of the Ring. Member of the scientific panel for this virtual seminar. https://sites.google.com/view/fellowship-of-the-ring/home. 03/2020 - present
  • AMS (American Mathematical Society). Role: co-Organizer. co-Organizer of an AMS special session held at the University of Michigan. 10/20/2018 - 10/21/2018
  • AMS (American Mathematical Society). Role: co-Organizer. co-Organizer of an AMS special session held at Portland State University. 04/14/2018 - 04/15/2018
  • AMS (American Mathematical Society). Role: co-Organizer. Organizing a special session at the Joint Mathematical Meetings in San Diego. 01/10/2018 - 01/12/2019
  • CIRM / Luminy. Role: co-organizer. Organizing the conference: Higher dimensional algebraic geometry and characteristic p > 0. 09/2016 - 09/2016
  • University of Utah. Role: co-organizer. Organizing the conference: Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry. 07/2016 - 07/2016
  • University of Utah. Role: co-organizer. Organizing the workshop, Intensive Workshop for Macaulay2 Development. 05/2016 - 05/2016
  • AMS / University of Utah. Role: co-organizer. Co-organizer of the AMS special session: Algebraic Geometry. 04/2016 - 04/2016
  • AMS / AWM. Role: co-organizer. Co-organizer of the AMS-AWM special session Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, held at the Joint Mathematical Meetings, Seattle, WA. 01/2016 - 01/2016
  • Royal Mathematical Society of Spain (RSME) and Springer. Role: Editor. Editor of RSME-SpringerBriefs. 12/2014 - present
  • University of Illinois at Chicago. Role: Organizer and presenter. Co-organizer of the Positive Characteristic Algebraic Geometry Workshop. 03/2014 - 03/2014
  • American Mathematical Society. Role: Organizer. Organizers of the special session "Homological and characteristic p methods in commutative algebra" held at the Joint Mathematical Meetings, January 2014. 01/2014 - 01/2014
  • American Mathematical Society. Role: Organizer. Organizer of a Mathematics Research Community to be held in June 2015. 08/2013 - 06/2015
  • American Mathematical Society. Role: Reviewer. Article review for MatSciNet. This is an ongoing service assigment which I have been doing for many years. 09/01/2006 - present
  • Zentralblatt Math. Role: Reviewer. Reviewing articles for zbMath. 09/01/2006 - present

Internal Service

  • Departmental RPT Chair (Elected DAC Chair). 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024. Department service.
  • Postdoc hiring committee. 07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024. Department service.
  • ad Hoc committee on Career Line Reviews. Chair, 11/2022 - 06/30/2023. Department service.
  • Executive Committee. Member, 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2024. Department service.
  • Senate Committee on IT. 07/01/2021 - 06/30/2024. University service.
  • Thesis formatting committee. Chair, 10/01/2018 - 07/01/2020. Department service.
  • BUS committee (Bachelor of University Studies). member, 08/01/2018 - 07/01/2020. University service.
  • Executive Committee. Member, 07/01/2017 - 06/30/2019. Department service.
  • Director of Graduate Studies. 08/2015 - 12/31/2017. Department service.
  • Outstanding Graduate Student and Instructor Award Committee. Member, 08/2015 - 12/31/2017. Department service.
  • Graduate Committee. Chair (as Director of Graduate Studies), 08/2015 - 12/31/2017. Department service.
  • Member of the Graduate Recruitment Committee. Member, 10/2014 - 12/31/2017. Department service.

Outreach

  • Summer Mathematics Program for High School Students. 06/06/2016 - 06/23/2016

Honors & Awards

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. The American Mathematical Society, 11/2020
  • Presidential Scholar. University of Utah, 09/01/2017
  • NSF CAREER award. National Science Foundation, 09/01/2013
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. Sloan Foundation, 09/01/2012
  • NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship. National Science Foundation, 09/01/2007

Affiliations

  • University of Utah (U of U), Associate Professor, 07/2014 - present
  • Penn State University (PSU), Assistant Professor, 01/01/2011 - 06/30/2014
  • University of Utah (U of U), Visiting Assistant Professor, 08/2010 - 12/2010
  • University of Michigan (U of M), Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, 08/2006 - 07/2010