{"id":26,"date":"2017-08-07T16:39:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:51:21","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Whitewater (Whitewater, WI). \u00a0My primary research interests are in topological combinatorics, a sub-field of mathematics devoted to using creative counting techniques to study the properties of abstract space. My primary university service involves curriculum development\/management and transfer credit evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>I graduated with my Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY) in May 2017. \u00a0My research advisor was Dr. Benjamin Braun, and my dissertation was titled &#8220;On Independence, Matching, and Homomorphism Complexes.&#8221; \u00a0I also earned my M.A. in mathematics from U. Kentucky in August 2014 under the guidance of Dr. Bertrand Guillou. \u00a0I earned my B.A. with a double major in mathematics and economics from Hanover College (Hanover, IN) in May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In my spare time, I like playing board games and binge-watching Hulu and Netflix with my wife and cat. I also collect LEGO sets and display them in my office on campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Whitewater (Whitewater, WI). \u00a0My primary research interests are in topological combinatorics, a sub-field of mathematics devoted to using creative counting techniques to study the properties of abstract &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/about-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7331,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/wkhough\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}