Hi! I'm Jessica Zhang.

I'm a junior at Harvard, majoring in mathematics. I'm particularly interested in low-dimensional topology. Last summer, I researched arboreal skeleta of Lagrangian handlebodies at the UC Davis Pure and Applied Math REU. Previously, I was named a Regeneron STS Finalist and won the Karl Menger Memorial Award for proving a formula for the number of non-isotopic tight contact structures on the solid torus. Before that, I attended PROMYS for two summers. Check out my full resume here.

In my free time, I like doing the crossword, talking about poems, pretending to read more poems than I do, and drinking smoothies. Please send me smoothie recommendations (anywhere, but especially Boston)! As an entirely unrelated reward for reading this all, here's a useless fact for you: Russet Burbank potatoes are all male and all sterile; in fact, most commercially potatoes do not reproduce at all—they're all just clones of each other!