Undergraduate research assistant

Adiba is an undergraduate at Columbia College from Dubai, U.A.E. majoring in Math and Computer Science. She joined the Billinge Group as a research assistant in May 2020. She has experience with proof-based analysis and algebra; introductory statistics; and data structures in Java and Python, and has previously done research in enumerative discrete geometry on the optimal partitioning of n-dimensional spheres by hyperplanes. She is interested in the application of distance geometry to the nanostructure problem.


Education & Employment


Columbia University

B.A. Mathematics and Computer Science

New York, NY, 2019 - 2023

Columbia University

Undergraduate Research Assistant

New York, NY, 2020 - 2021

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