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 <!-- - [Here is my CV for linear thinkers: available upon request or see what I'm up to here](https://kammitama5.github.io/Tuesday-October-8th/). -->
 - [Here is my CV for linear thinkers](https://github.com/kammitama5/kammitama5.github.io/blob/master/images1/Reeee_Krystal_Maughan_CV_44.pdf) or [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BV5YgeZkQ_0b33zWgmxhI17vpbe0gByN/view?usp=sharing) and you can see what I'm up to [here i.e. "News"](https://kammitama5.github.io/Tuesday-October-8th/).
 - I am currently working on mathematical cryptography research, often as it relates to quantum computing. I regularly work at the intersection of the Number Theory community and the Quantum Computing (QC) community, which involves anything from working with post-quantum cryptography, quantum computational complexity, or general topics in arithmetic geometry / algebraic graph theory . Currently I am working on [post-quantum supersingular isogeny-based cryptography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersingular_isogeny_graph), advised by two professors; one in Pure Mathematics and the other in Computer Science (while being held hostage by the Pure Maths department at my University, much to my delight!). I am also working on other adjacent topics, too, such as classical error-correcting codes, and more broadly, computational arithmetic geometry / number theory and some graph theory projects relating to quantum.
-- You may have noticed that I have some history in AI. What, you may say? Let me explain! I'd like to say that it would have been very easy (and quite lucrative; I could have had a glossy photo of myself with a link to my Ted Talk instead of that beach photo from Marin County!) for me to continue on a path with Generative AI, GPT, Transformers, etc, but I am more passionate about Pure Mathematics research, and its intersection with QC. I also really love the communities within Pure Mathematics and Quantum Computing and have felt that they invested in my success and in my being a good researcher in a way that I didn't think I was receiving via the AI community, which has issues with "researcher tokenism", as I like to call it (i.e. all researchers are not equal but also hey, we need "someone like you" today for our brochure / panel). All is not lost; my background in AI has served me well in the Pure Maths community, too, but I enjoy problems at the intersection of Pure Maths and QC primarily very much! That being said, I've been *flooded* with kindness by the QC and Pure Maths communities, and so I am *really* very busy working with several groups on several projects (about 8-10 in 2023 alone which are wip)! So much so that I've missed recruitment emails that were sent nine months ago in 2023!
+- You may have noticed that I have some history in AI. What, you may say? Let me explain! I'd like to say that it would have been very easy (and quite lucrative; I could have had a glossy photo of myself with a link to my Ted Talk instead of that beach photo from Marin County!) for me to continue on a path with Generative AI, GPT, Transformers, etc, but I am more passionate about Pure Mathematics research, and its intersection with QC. I also really love the communities within Pure Mathematics and Quantum Computing and have felt that they invested in my success and in my being a good researcher in a way that I didn't think I was receiving via the AI community, which has issues with "researcher tokenism", as I like to call it (i.e. all researchers are not equal but also hey, we need "someone like you" today for our brochure / panel). So I seriously stopped coding any AI models around 2020, and I can hack things together, but I am *really* rusty. All is not lost; my background in AI has served me well in the Pure Maths community, too, but I enjoy problems at the intersection of Pure Maths and QC primarily very much! That being said, I've been *flooded* with kindness by the QC and Pure Maths communities, and so I am *really* very busy working with several groups on several projects (about 8-10 in 2023 alone which are wip)! So much so that I've missed recruitment emails that were sent nine months ago in 2023!
 - You will find me mostly in the Pure Maths lab. I'm working with several mathematicians on projects at the moment (and most recently, some physicists!), as well as learning Lean 3 (Summer 23). I've really enjoyed the jump into Quantum, but I do realize that I also have a lot to learn (and that I have to work my way up, while say, continuing in AI would mean that I would have had my pick in opportunities to some extent). I don't see this as a disadvantage, as if you've been reading this far, you know that by definition one of my *strengths* is working my way up to the top of any discipline / area of interest I set my mind towards, and it is, in fact, expected of many long-term career researchers (the criteria is often "is the question interesting" rather than "this is a thing in my field", and one learns to learn in research). Meanwhile, my appetite for learning more Pure Mathematics and my core community in general is that of the Pure Mathematics community (in particular, the Number Theory community), and I would say at this point I think more like a Mathematician (so if that's what your team might enjoy, with someone who has my background, it's something to consider!). What this means is also that I find the kinds of problems that mathematicians would enjoy to be enjoyable, too (that's generally a good metric to also figure out where one "belongs" in research). I invest a lot of time and share resources within any community that is my core, as I think it's an important part of sustaining its longevity.
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