Selected Presentations & Appearances
Uncovering the Impact of Policy on Redistricting
- Randomization, Neutrality, and Fairness Workshop
· October 2023
International Meeting or Conference
SL Math (formerly MSRI),
Uncovering the Impact of Policy on Redistricting
- Statistics Seminar
· October 2023
Invited Talk
Stanford University,
The Consequence of Policy on Redistricting
- AMS Fall Sectional
· October 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Univeristy of Utah,
Salt Lake City
Quantifying Gerrymandering
- Horizons Seminar
· September 2022
Invited Talk
Brown University,
Using Policy to Understand Gerrymandering
- Center for Voting Rights Series
· April 22, 2022
Invited Talk
Columbia Law,
Virtual
Monte Carlo Methods for Revealing Gerrymandering
- NYU Center for Data Science
· December 13, 2021
Invited Talk
NYU,
Virtual
Monte Carlo Methods for Revealing Gerrymandering
- Graduate-Faculty Seminar
· October 2021
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Duke University,
Duke Mathematics Department
Monte Carlo Methods for Revealing Gerrymandering
- Mathematics Seminar
· October 2021
Invited Talk
Boston University,
Virtual
Monte Carlo Methods for Revealing Gerrymandering
- Joint Statistics Meetings
· July 2021
International Meeting or Conference
American Statistical Association,
Virtual
Uncovering Gerrymandering: Revealing Geopolitical Structure through Sampling
- Mathematics Seminar
· March 2021
Invited Talk
California State University, San Bernardino ,
Virtual
Understanding Gerrymandering
- Guest Lecture: Math in Our Democracy
· January 25, 2021
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Saint Mary's College of California,
Virtual
Claiming the Power of the Vote
- SLA Annual Conference
· October 2020
International Meeting or Conference
Special Libraries Association,
Virtual
Voting: The Struggle for Voice in American Politics
- Kavli Frontiers of Science
· July 2020
Invited Talk
NSF,
Virtual
Quantifying Gerrymandering: Algorithmic Advances and the Need for Open Source Software
- Triangle PyTorch Meetup Group
· July 2020
Invited Talk
Virtual
Claiming the Power of the Vote
- STEM Empower
· July 2020
Lecture
Redeemed Christian Church of God Victory Temple,
Virtual
A conference on "Doing Good With STEM" focused on engaging and encouraging young minorities in the STEM
County Preservation
- TRIPODS Redistricting Conference 2020
· March 2020
Invited Talk
Duke University,
Gross Hall, Durham, NC
Math and the Law: Quantifying Gerrymandering
- Festival of Legal Learning
· February 8, 2020
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
UNC,
Friday Center
Quantifying Gerrymandering
· November 2019
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Raleigh Charter High School,
Duke Law School Lunch
· October 2019
Invited Talk
Supreme Court Lunch
· July 2019
Invited Talk
Quantifying Gerrymandering in North Carolina
- Durham Rotary Club Lunch
· June 24, 2019
Invited Talk
Durham Rotary Club,
Durham Bull's Stadium
Gerrymandering on trial: The case for fair maps
- NC Policy Watch: Crucial Conversations
· May 2019
Invited Talk
Quantifying Gerrymandering
· February 2019
Invited Talk
Florida State University,
Florida State University Department of Mathematics
Quantifying Gerrymandering: Separating Natural Bias from Political Bias
- Political Science Colloquium
· October 25, 2018
Invited Talk
University of Delaware,
Political Science Department
Quantifying Gerrymandering: Sampling the Space of Redistricting Plans
- Mathematics Colloquium
· October 24, 2018
Invited Talk
University of Delaware,
Mathematics Department
Measures of Gerrymandering
- Conference on Redistricting
· October 5, 2018
Invited Talk
University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ
Quantifying Gerrymandering
- Mathematics Colloquium
· October 3, 2018
Invited Talk
University of Arizona,
Mathematics Department
GPU Data Access on Complex Geometries for D3Q19 Lattice Boltzmann Method
- International Parallel and Distributed Processing
· May 21, 2018
- May 25, 2018
International Meeting or Conference
IEEE,
Vancouver, BC
Quantifying Gerrymandering
- Geometry of Redistricting Workshop
· March 15, 2018
- March 18, 2018
Invited Talk
University of San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA
GPU Data Layouts for D3Q19 Lattice Boltzmann Methods
- SIAM-SEAS
· March 2018
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill,
Computational methods for sampling the space of redistricting plans
- Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group
· November 2017
Invited Talk
Duke University,
Using GIS tools to understand the space of political redistricting plans
- Visualization Friday Forum
· November 2017
Invited Talk
Duke Computer Science Department,
Quantifying Gerrymandering
- Data Dialogue
· October 2017
Invited Talk
Information Initiative at Duke,
Gross Hall
Introduction to Computing with GPUs
- Grad/Fac Seminar
· April 2017
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Mathematics Department at Duke University,
Physics Building
Memory access patterns for Lattice Boltzmann methods on GPUs
- Poster session at the Duke Research Computing Symposium
· January 2017
Other
Duke University,
OIT
Continuum-atomistic computations for dendritic solidification
· August 26, 2013
Lecture
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Continuum approximation of the chemical master equation
· March 1, 2013
Lecture
SIAM CSE, Boston
Simulation of Solidification by Coupling of Phase Field and Microscopic Computations
· December 17, 2011
Lecture
ICIAM Vancouver
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Organizer - Triangle Gerrymandering Research Group
· July 2018
Research
Duke University
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Gerrymandering and the Extent of Democracy in America
· 2018
- 2019
Projects & Field Work
North Carolina
Primary Theme: Information, Society & Culture
Gerrymandering has been increasingly used to undermine the Democratic process. Although there remains no standard to detect partisan gerrymandering, we have begun to develop promising and potentially justiciable techniques. These techniques expose the natural geopolitical structure of a region, and understanding this structure can be used to identify political and racial gerrymandering.
Expert Witness - Common Cause filing against the 2016 NC senate redistricting plan
· September 2, 2017
- September 13, 2017
Consulting
Common Cause
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Data+
· June 2016
- July 2016
Projects & Field Work
United States of America
Service to the Profession
Academic & Administrative Activities
Organizer of Data+ (2020 to present)
Masters in Interdisciplinary Data Science Capstone director (2020-present)