This past summer (2024) I worked as an undergraduate researcher assistant looking into zero-knowledge proofs under Professor Jeremy Clark. Together with Professor Clark and Masters student Youwei Deng, I wrote a handbook for gadgets in the polynomial interactive oracle proof (Poly-IOP) model used by the succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge (SNARK) Plonk. I also looked at the applications of Plonk-style poly-IOPs for auctions structures such as call markets. I gave a presentation based on my work at the Seminars in Undergraduate Mathematics in Montreal conference. You can check out the slides from it here

Currently, (winter 2025) I'm participating in the Directed Reading Program at McGill, focusing on random graphs and temporal networks. This summer (2025) I'll be working with Professor Douglas Stebila at Waterloo on post-quantum cryptography.