I am a Professor in the Department of
Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
at
University of Illinois Chicago.
See also the
Mathematical Computer Science group which comprises faculty in combinatorics and computer science.
CV (pdf file)
Research
Combinatorics, especially extremal and probabilistic questions
on graphs and hypergraphs with applications to theoretical computer science.
My research is currently supported by National Science Foundation grant
DMS-2153576.
My Book,
Extremal Graph and Hypergraph Theory (with Ramsey Theory), co-authored with Jacques Verstraete, is available to purchase here
Publications
Fall 2026 Teaching
MCS 423 (undergraduate Graph Theory)
MCS 582 (Probabilistic method)
Current Journal Editing