I study Schubert calculus and combinatorial K-theory, especially
Grothendieck and Lascoux polynomials, bumpless pipedreams, and crystals.
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Research & background
Combinatorics through geometry and K-theory
My research is in algebraic combinatorics, especially Schubert calculus and combinatorial K-theory. I study combinatorial models for Schubert, Grothendieck, and Lascoux polynomials, including bumpless pipedreams, tableaux, insertion algorithms, and crystal structures.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2024, advised by Brendon Rhoades. I am currently a CRM–ISM postdoctoral fellow at UQAM and will be a J. L. Doob Postdoctoral Fellow at UIUC beginning in January 2027.
Research
16. A positive combinatorial formula for the double Edelman--Greene coefficients[PDF]
with Chen-An Chou
15. Grothendieck positivity for normal square root crystals[PDF]
with Eric Marberg and Kam Hung Tong
(Advances in Mathematics, 2026)
14. Tableau formula for vexillary double Edelman--Greene coefficients[PDF]
with Adam Gregory and Zachary Hamaker
(Selecta Mathematica, accepted)
13. Marked Bumpless Pipedreams and Compatible Pairs[PDF]
with Daoji Huang and Mark Shimozono
(Combinatorial Theory, accepted)
12. Embedding bumpless pipedreams as Bruhat chains[PDF]
(International Mathematics Research Notices, 2025)
11. Grothendieck polynomials of inverse fireworks permutations[PDF]
with Chen-An Chou
(European Journal of Combinatorics, 2025)
10. Lascoux expansion of the product of a Lascoux and a stable Grothendieck[PDF]
with Gidon Orelowitz
(Combinatorial Theory, accepted)
9. Constructing maximal pipedreams of double Grothendieck polynomials[PDF]
with Chen-An Chou
(Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2024)
8. Constructing a Gröbner basis of Griffin's ideal[PDF]
(Mathematische Zeitschrift, 2024)
7. Connection between Schubert polynomials and top Lascoux polynomials[PDF]
(Algebraic Combinatorics, 2025)
6. Top-degree components of Grothendieck and Lascoux polynomials[PDF]
We show that the generating functions of normal square root crystals are positive sums of symmetric Grothendieck polynomials, providing a tool for establishing Grothendieck positivity.
We reinterpret bumpless pipedreams as Bruhat chains, paralleling Lenart and Sottile’s work on classical pipedreams. This yields a bumpless analogue of Fomin and Stanley’s algebraic construction.
We investigate Grothendieck polynomials labeled by inverse fireworks permutations. We introduce a combinatorial model for their top degree components
and proved a conjecture on their support.
We solve a problem of Pechenik, Speyer, and Weigandt on constructing the maximal pipedream that captures the leading monomial of the top-degree part of double Grothendieck polynomials.
We construct an explicit Gröbner basis, with integer coefficients, for a family of ideals introduced by Sean Griffin that generalize the Delta Conjecture coinvariant rings and Springer fiber cohomology rings.
We relate Schubert polynomials and top Lascoux polynomials via a simple operator, showing they share structure constants. This connection uncovers several combinatorial properties of top Lascoux polynomials.
We define a statistic on diagrams. It recovers the rajcode of Pechenik, Speyer, and Weigandt on Rothe diagrams and gives the leading monomial of top Lascoux polynomials on left-justified diagrams.
We introduce a row insertion algorithm on decreasing tableaux that generalizes Edelman–Greene row insertion, serving as a row analogue of Hecke column insertion.
We prove a conjectural formula for Lascoux polynomials by Ross and Yong via a weight-preserving bijection between reverse set-valued tableaux and K-Kohnert diagrams.
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 2023
We prove a conjecture of Reiner and Yong: giving a tableau formula for expanding a Grothendieck polynomial into Lascoux polynomials—analogous to the Schubert-to-key expansion.
We describe the harmonic space and construct a harmonic basis for a family of ideals introduced by Sean Griffin that generalizes the Delta Conjecture coinvariant rings and Springer fiber cohomology rings.
Talks
2026
Sep. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ.
Sep. University at Albany. Albany, NY.
Jul. University of Washington. Seattle, WA.[FPSAC]
Apr. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.
Feb. University of California, San Diego. San Diego, CA.
Feb. University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA.
Jan. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY.
Jan. Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University. Tianjin, China.