Current and Former PhD Students

• Ray Shang (PhD Expected 2029)

• Sae Koyama (PhD Expected 2028)

• Emily Dodwell(PhD Expected 2028)

• Siao Chi Mok (PhD Expected 2026)

• Terry Dekun Song (2026)

• Ajith Urundolil Kumaran (2024)

• Patrick Kennedy-Hunt (2024)

• Siddarth Kannan (2023, co-advised with Melody Chan)

• Wanlong Zheng (2023)

• Qaasim Shafi (2022, co-advised with Tom Coates)

Current and Former Postdoctoral Fellows

• Alessio Cela (2024-)

• Veronica Arena (2024-)

• Yannik Schuler (2024)

• Thibault Poiret (2021-23)

• Navid Nabijou (2020-22)

Papers by Members of the Group

The following is a list of papers written by students and postdoctoral fellows while they were part of our group here in Cambridge. The list is just meant to give a flavour of what people here like to think about. There is no implied claim of contribution on my part!

• Virtual Hodge numbers of Mg,n(Pr,d): stability and calculations, by Terry Dekun Song, coauthored with Siddarth Kannan. 

• Tropical geometry in torus bundles, by Emily Dodwell, MPhil thesis 2024.

• Logarithmic Quot schemes, boundedness, and K-tropicalizations, by Patrick Kennedy-Hunt, coauthored with Dhruv Ranganathan. 

• Refined curve counting with descendants and quantum mirrors, by Patrick Kennedy-Hunt, coauthored with Ajith Urundolil Kumaran and Qaasim Shafi.

• Logarithmic Fulton-Macpherson configuration spaces, by Siao Chi Mok.

• The Sn-equivariant Euler characteristic of M₁,ₙ(Pʳ,d), by Terry Dekun Song, coauthored with Siddarth Kannan. 

• The dual complex of M₁,ₙ(Pʳ,d) via the geometry of the Vakil-Zinger moduli space, by Terry Dekun Song, coauthored with Siddarth Kannan. 

• Combinatorics of Hurwitz degenerations and tropical realizability, by Mia Lam and Chi Kin Ng, coauthored with Dhruv Ranganathan. 

• Chow ring of the stack of plane nodal curves, by Ajith Urundolil Kumaran, coauthored with Alessio Cela and Xiaohan Yan.

• Constructions of superabundant tropical curves in higher genus, by Sae Koyama. 

• The logarithmic Quot scheme: foundations and tropicalisation, by Patrick Kennedy-Hunt.

• Tropical refined curve counting with descendants, by Patrick-Kennedy Hunt and Ajith Urundolil Kumaran, coauthored with Qaasim Shafi. 

• Logarithmic quasimaps, by Qaasim Shafi. 

• Logarithmic Gromov-Witten theory and double ramification cycles, by Ajith Urundolil Kumaran, coauthored with Dhruv Ranganathan.

• Divisors and curves on logarithmic mapping spaces, by Patrick Kennedy-Hunt, Navid Nabijou, Qaasim Shafi, and Wanlong Zheng. 

• Gromov-Witten theory via roots and logarithms, by Navid Nabijou, coauthored with Luca Battistella and Dhruv Ranganathan.

• Moduli of relative stable maps to P1: cut-and-paste invariants, by Siddarth Kannan. 

• A new approach to the operator formalism for Gromov-Witten invariants of the cap and tube, by Ajith Urundolil Kumaran, coauthored with Longting Wu. 

• Moduli of elliptic curves in products of projective spaces, by Wanlong Zheng.

• Logarithmic Pandharipande-Thomas spaces and the secondary polytope, by Patrick Kennedy-Hunt. 

• Rubber tori in the boundary of expanded stable maps, by Navid Nabijou, coauthored with Francesca Carocci. 

• The local-orbifold correspondence for simple normal crossings pairs, by Navid Nabijou, coauthored with Luca Battistella, Hsian-Hua Tseng, and Fenglong You.