Education

BSc Applied Mathematics - First Class Honours

Institution: University of Calgary
Minor: Pure Mathematics
Year Completed: 2006

MMath in Pure Mathematics

Institution: University of Waterloo
Year Completed: 2008

Advisor: Professor B. Doug Park

Masters Thesis: Branched Covering Constructions and the Symplectic Geography Problem

PhD in Mathematics

Institution: Stony Brook University
Year Completed: 2014

Advisor: Professor Oleg Viro

PhD Thesis: Braiding non-ribbon surfaces and constructing broken fibrations on smooth 4-manifolds