climbing in the Gunks

I’m a PhD Candidate at Cornell University, advised by Inna Zakharevich. In Fall 2026 I will be a postdoc with the Cornell Active Learning Initiative. Starting January 2027, I will be a postdoc at Western University.

My research is focused in weak higher category theory (e.g. \(\infty\)-categories) and strict higher category theory (e.g. \(\omega\)-categories) and the interplay betwen the two.

CV (updated Jan. 2026)

Email: ks2424@cornell.edu

Research Papers:

Change of Enrichment for Monoidal Model Categories
arxiv.org/abs/2607.09612

An Enriched Approach to the Strictification of \((\infty,1)\)-Categories
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04254

Strictification of \(\infty\)-groupoids is comonadic
Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 44
arxiv.org/abs/2405.04780

NB: there is a mistake in the above paper: the cited Lemma 6.7 is incorrect (confirmed with the authors of that lemma). This affects the second main theorem of the paper. I am currently working on an erratum fixing this issue; for more information feel free to email me.

Structure of Spectra of Precompletions
With Erica Barrett, Emil Graf, S. Loepp, and Sharon Zhang.
Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 50
arxiv.org/abs/1911.01394

Structure of Spectra of Precompletions
With Erica Barrett, Emil Graf, S. Loepp, and Sharon Zhang.
AMS CONM issue 773: “Commutative Algebra: 150 Years with Roger and Sylvia Wiegand”
arxiv.org/abs/1911.01394