Guest Editing: Kristopher Tapp and I will be guest editing the Mathematical and Computational Democracy special collection of La Matematica. Here is the call for papers.
News Articles:
The (very) tricky math of detecting gerrymandering in election districts (Guest post on Devlin's Angle)
Newly gerrymandered districts might hurt Democrats less than you think (Published in the Washington Post)
The Silver Lining in the Supreme Court Gerrymandering Decision (Published in The Hill)
News Citations:
Gerrymandering Explained: How math is Used for Political Gain to Win Elections (Published in IFLScience)
Speaker Johnson’s Partisan Spin on Gerrymandering in the 2024 Election (Published in FactCheck.org)
Research Programs:
In Spring 2026, I'll be participating in the Mathematics of Elections, Fairness, and Representation Workshop at the Banff International Research Station
In Summer 2024, I participated in the Mathematics of Voting and Representation Workshop at the Edinburgh Futures Institute through the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Fall of 2023, I was a Research Member at the MSRI/SLMath Algorithms, Fairness, and Equity Program
Research Articles:
Don't Trust A Single Gerrymandering Metric with T. Ratliff and S. Somersille, La Matematica (2025).
Bounds and Bugs: The Limits of Symmetry Metrics to Detect Partisan Gerrymandering with D. DeFord Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2025)
Perfect Hierarchical Matchings in Graphs with S. Jacobson and I. Ludden (in review)
The Geography and Election Outcome (GEO) Metric: An Introduction with M. Campisi, T. Ratliff, and S. Somersille Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2022)
Declination as a Metric to Detect Partisan Gerrymandering with M. Campisi, A. Padilla, and T. Ratliff Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2019)
The Efficiency Gap, Voter Turnout, and The Efficiency Principle Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy (2018)
Data Cleaning:
USF graduate students Ananya Agarwal, Alusi, Arbie Hsu, Arif Syraj, and I have cleaned and coalesced data for post-2020-Census maps. See our paper for details (published in The Mathematics Enthusiast); the maps can be found at https://github.com/eveomett-states
Teaching:
Spring 2024, 2025, and 2026 I taught AI for Redistricting.
I taught Math in our Democracy: Detecting and Preventing Gerrymandering three times during "Jan term" (Januaries of 2020, 2021, and 2022)