I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Alabama A&M University. I’ve taught mathematics courses for several years at many institutions, including the University of Mississippi, the Mississippi University for Women, the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, and Louisiana State University of Alexandria. I’m blessed with the privilege to both teach and research in mathematics.
On the research end, I am primarily interested in topics related to Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory. In particular, I have current interests in domination number, bondage number and its variations, and the discharging method.
I am committed to introducing mathematics research to my undergraduate students, especially those who with backgrounds underrepresented in STEM fields. I’ve worked with several students in research, typically culminating in an undergraduate poster presentation.
Outside of academia and education, I seek to serve the community whenever possible. From 2013 to 2023, I’ve actively worked with several organizations dedicated to promoting Asian-youth leadership in the community, addressing issues facing Asian/Asian-American communities on a local and international scale, and developing professionalism skills for college-aged students. From 2020 to 2023, I served on the Board of Directors for the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of the Gulf Coast.
Dissertation Title: On Domination and Bondage Numbers of Some Classes of Graphs, supervised by Dr. Bing Wei
Minor in Chemistry, cum laude
High Honors
Project: Resilience of Fixed Dominating Sets Under Linkage Failure
Project: Brownian Motion and the Stock Market
Project: Solutions to Electrical Circuit Problems Via Graph Theory
Project: Investigation of the Discharging Method for Toroidal Graphs
Project: Distance k-Bondage Number of Simple Classes of Graphs
Project: Visualizing Student Connections on the LSUA Campus
Project: Survey of Domination and Bondage Number
Project: An Investigation of Regular Convex Polytopes in Higher Dimensions