Curriculum Vitae

Last updated: Aug 2024

Academic history

February 2023 - present: M.Sc Mathematics, University of Cape Town. Supervisors: Prof. George Janelidze and Dr. Juana Sanchez-Ortega.

February 2022 - November 2022: B.Sc. Mathematics in the first class (cum laude), University of Cape Town. Project: Free semimodules and their examples. Supervisor: Prof. George Janelidze.

January 2019 - December 2021: B.Sc. Mathematics & Computer Science w/ Distinction (cum laude), University of the Witwatersrand.

January 2014 - November 2018: IEB National Senior Certificate, King David Victory Park High School.

Teaching Assistant

2023: Linear algebra, (compulsory undergraduate course - mathematics) at the University of Cape Town.

2023: Fundamentals of mathematics, (compulsory undergraduate course - mathematics) at the University of Cape Town.

2022: Introduction to discrete mathematics (compulsory undergraduate course - computer science), at the University of Cape Town.

2021: Discrete computational structures, (compulsory undergraduate course - computer science) at Wits university.

Awards

Master’s Fellowship. UCT Building Research Active Academic Staff Grant. 2023. 2024.

Myer Levinson (EMDIN) Scholar. 2022. 2023. 2024.

Nominated by the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at UCT for the Max Price and Deborah Posel Scholarship for aspiring academics. Single honours student nominated by head of department. 2022.

Dean’s List 2020 (Year II). 2021 (Year III).

University Council Merit Scholarship. Wits. 2020. 2021.

Certificate of First Class. Maths. Applied maths. Computer science. Statistics. Psychology. Wits. 2020.

Certificate of Merit. All maths courses. Wits. 2020.

Graduation award for intellectual curiosity. 2018.

Asian World Schools Debating Championship 2016. South African delegation. Quarter finalist. Top 20 speakers.

Summer schools

Harvard’s New horizons in theoretical computer science. June 2021.

IBM Qiskit global summer school. July 2020.

WitsQ-IBM Quantum Computing summer school. December 2019.

Honours UCT 2022

Homological algebra. 80%

General mathematical structures. 85%

Category theory II reading module. 90%

Category theory. 91%

Topology. 100%

Differential geometry. 89%