Education

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Mathematics, Duke University, September 2022 – April 2027 (expected)

Currently researching four- and eight-dimensional geometry with Dr. Mark Stern.
Member in the Certificate in College Teaching program, to be awarded on graduation.

M.Math. in Pure Mathematics (research thesis), University of Waterloo, October 2021 – August 2022

B.Math. in Pure Mathematics; Minor in East Asian Studies, University of Waterloo, September 2016 – August 2021

Recipient of 2021 Alumni Gold Medal for the Faculty of Mathematics.
Recipient of 2021 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.

Industry Experience

Software Engineering Intern, Citadel Enterprise, January 2020 – April 2020

Developed C++ data pipelines to parse and archive data streams from Thomson Reuters.
Handled over 300GB per day of market data at the height of the market impact of COVID-19.

Software Engineering Intern, ContextLogic LLC, January 2018 – April 2018

Conducted shipping time estimate experiments providing up to gross +2.5% profits.
Created reports and Grafana dashboards combining data from MongoDB and TreasureData tracking merchant policy effectiveness.

Software Engineering Intern, Citadel LLC, September 2017 – December 2017

Worked on the Accounting Development Team, creating and maintaining software for over 100 clients.
Designed, tested, and implemented new response formats reducing response size by 10x and increasing speed 5x.

Leadership and Professional Service

Steward, Duke Graduate Students Union, Fall 2025 - present

Mediated workplace disputes and represented graduate workers in grievance proceedings.

President, Duke AMS Student Chapter, 2024-25 academic year

Organized and hosted the Triangle Area Graduate Mathematics Seminar with NC State University and UNC Chapel Hill at Duke, February 2025.

Graduate student representative, Duke Mathematics Departmental Teaching Committee, Fall 2023 - present

Performed annual interviews and advocated for graduate interests in departmental teaching decisions.

Academic Activity

Edidin, Dan, Matthew Satriano, and Spencer Whitehead. "On a smoothness characterization for good moduli spaces." Advances in Mathematics 442 (April 2024).
Charbonneau, B. and Whitehead, S. "Studying Wythoff and Zometool Constructions using Maple." Maple in Mathematics Education and Research (pp. 65–76), 2020.

Duke Math+ program (joint with Biji Wong, Gregory Herschlag), Spring 2026

Supervised four undergraduate students in a project on the application of diffusion maps and machine learning to graph partition problems, with a focus on the study of gerrymandering.

MITACS internship program (joint with Benoit Charbonneau), Spring 2022

Supervised two undergraduate students in a computational project on low-dimensional optimal packing problems.

[Invited] An asymptotic Nahm transform for Spin(7) instantons. Mathematical Congress of the Americas, Miami, July 2025.
Symmetric instantons. (Poster). Geometric Models of Matter, Leeds, August 2024.
Generalized Pythagorean lutes. Bridges 2022, Helsinki, August 2022.
Integrality theorems for symmetric instantons. Union College Mathematics Conference, Schenectady, June 2022.

Instructor of record MATH 106L (Lab calculus 2), Fall 2023.

Served as primary instructor and coordinator for a class of 18 students with daily meetings.
Managed a team of 4 undergraduate teaching assistants.

Tutorial lecturer CS 246(E) ([Enriched] Object-Oriented Software Development), Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Winter 2019, University of Waterloo.

Delivered weekly tutorial lectures for classes of 50+ students.
Designed assignments and managed the course platform for running and evaluating student code.

Education

Industry Experience