Professional / Research

I recently graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in Mathematics, and this August, I will be joining Columbia University as a Ph.D. student in Operations Research. During my undergraduate studies, I worked with Professor Adolfo Escobedo on Exact Linear Programming, which is the focus of my current research, and also worked with Professor James Murphy studying optimal transport theory.

I was recently awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, for more on that, please click here.

Research Interests

Mathematical optimization/programming, numerical linear algebra, algorithmic game theory (potentially).

Publications

Gao, M., Grassel, J. T., & Escobedo, A. R. (2026, March 20). Efficient Multi-Column LU Factorization Updates for Exact Linear Programming. Refereed Proceedings of the 2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference. doi:10.5281/zenodo.19985115