Papers in Press:

17) Statistical Learning with Phylogenetic Network Invariants (with Travis Barton, Elizabeth Gross, and Joseph Rusinko). To appear in the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists. link

Papers in Print:

16) Phylogenomic Models from Tree Symmetries (with Elizabeth S. Allman and John A. Rhodes). SIAM J. Appl. Algebra Geometry. 8 (2024), no. 1, 114--137 link

15) A New Approach to Agent-based Models of Community Resource Management Based on the Analysis of Cheating, Monitoring, and Sanctioning (with Maya Lapp). Ecol. Modell. 468 (2022). link

14) Hypothesis Testing with Rank Conditions in Phylogenetics (with Laura Kubatko). Front. Genet. 12 (2021), 1062 link

13) Distinguishing Level-1 Networks on the Basis of Data Generated by Markov Processes (with Elizabeth Gross, Remie Janssen, Mark Jones, Yuki Murakami, and Leo Van Iersel). J. Math. Biol. 83 (2021), 32 link

12) PhylogeneticTrees: A Macaulay2 package for phylogenetic algebraic geometry (with Hector Baños, Nathaniel Bushek, Ruth Davidson, Elizabeth Gross, Pamela Harris, Robert Krone, AJ Stewart, Robert Walker). J. Softw. Algebra Geom. 11 (2021), no. 1, 1-7 link

11) Initial Ideals of Pfaffian Ideals. J. Comm. Algebra, 12 (2020), no. 1, 91–105 link Supplementary Materials

10) Phylogenetic Networks (with Elizabeth Gross and Joseph Rusinko) chapter in A Project-Based Guide to Undergraduate Research in Mathematics, Birkauser Basel, edited by Pamela Harris, Erik Insko, and Aaron Wooton.

9) Species Tree Inference From Genomic Sequences Using the Log-det Distance (with Elizabeth S. Allman and John A. Rhodes). SIAM J. Appl. Algebra Geometry. 3 (2019), no. 1, 107-127 link

8) Dimensions of Group-based Phylogenetic Mixture Varieties (with Hector Baños, Nathaniel Bushek, Ruth Davidson, Elizabeth Gross, Pamela Harris, Robert Krone, AJ Stewart, Robert Walker). Bull. Math. Biol. 81 (2019), no. 2, 316--336 link

7) Identifiability and Reconstructibility of Species Phylogenies under a Modified Coalescent (with Laura Kubatko). Bull. Math. Biol. 81 (2019), no. 2, 408–430 link

6) The Effect of Gene Flow on Coalescent-based Species Tree Inference (with Laura Kubatko). Syst. Biol. 67 (2018), no. 5, 770–785 link

5) Distinguishing Phylogenetic Networks (with Elizabeth Gross). SIAM J. Appl. Algebra Geometry. 2 (2018), no. 1, 72–93 link Supplementary Materials

4) L-Infinity Optimization to Linear Spaces and Phylogenetic trees (with Daniel Bernstein). SIAM J. Discrete Math. 31 (2017), no. 2, 875-889 link Supplementary Materials

3) Bounds on the Expected Size of the Maximum Agreement Subtree (with Daniel Irving Bernstein, Lam Si Tung Ho, Mike Steel, Katherine St. John, Seth Sullivant). SIAM J. Discrete Math. 29 (2015), no. 4, 2065-2074 link

2) Tying up Loose Strands: the defining equations of the strand symmetric model (with Seth Sullivant). J. Algeb. Stats. 6 (1), (2015), no. 1, 17-23. link   Supplementary Materials

1) Identifiability of 3-class Jukes Cantor Mixtures (with Seth Sullivant). Adv. in Appl. Math. 64 (2015) 89–110. link   Supplementary Materials

Ph.D. Thesis:

Algebraic Geometry of Phylogenetic Models. Ph.D. thesis, North Carolina State University, 2016. PDF Supplementary Materials