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<h2>About Me </h2>
<p> I am a third year graduate student at the <a href="https://cse.umn.edu/math">University of Minnesota</a>, interested in algebraic combinatorics and commutative algebra. My advisor is <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/pylyavskyy/">Pasha Pylyavskyy</a>.</p>
<p>I graduated from <a href="https://math.sdsu.edu">San Diego State University</a> in 2021, where I worked with <a href="https://cdoneill.sdsu.edu/">Christopher O'Neill</a> on problems relating to numerical semigroups and polyhedral geometry.</p>

<h2>Recent Activities</h2>
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    <li>(Summer 2024) I am a TA for the UMN <a href="https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~reiner/REU/REU.html">Combinatorics REU</a>.</li>
    <li>(Summer 2024) I participated in <a href="https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/mrwac/home">MRWAC</a> at UMN, where I worked on a project investigating coefficients of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.</li>
    <li>(Fall 2023, Spring 2024) I organized <a href="https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/umn-scas-seminar/">Student Combinatorics and Algebra Seminar</a> with fellow graduate students Miranda Moore and Sylvester Zhang.</li>
    <li>(Summer 2023) I participated in the <a href="https://macaulay2.github.io/Workshop-2023-Minneapolis/">Macaulay 2 Workshop</a> at UMN, where I contributed to the Matrix Schubert Varieties package mentored by Ayah Almousa and Patricia Klein <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07393">(preprint now available!)</a>.</li>
    <!-- <li>(Summer 2023) I participated in <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/mrwac2023/">MRWAC</a> at UMN, a research workshop in algebra and combinatorics.</li>
    <li>(Spring 2023) I attended the <a href="https://wlzhang.people.uic.edu/SyzygiesRegularity/">Syzygies and Regularity workshop</a> at UIC.</li> -->
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<h2> Contact</h2>
<p><b>Email:</b> mcdo1248 [at] umn [dot] edu</p>
<p><b>Office:</b> 424 Vincent Hall </br> 206 Church St SE </br> Minneapolis MN 55455</p>