JAK of All Trades
Greetings! I am Jakini Auset Kauba, a PhD student in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences. This page serves as my personal-professional website, but also a place for scientists (especially mathematicians) to explore the wonderful ways that so many incredible dreams can be achieved. Welcome to a quick, "one-stop shop" introduction of the world that exists beyond mathematical and statistical research. I'm glad you're here!
See below for a few articles that Clemson University and the MAA have written about me!
Publications
2025: Buckmire, R., Eaton, C. D., Hibdon Jr, J. E., Kauba, J. A., Lewis, D., Ortega, O., Pabón, J.L., Roca, R. & Vindas-Meléndez, A. R. (2025). Quantifying and Documenting Gender-Based Inequalities in the Mathematical Sciences in the United States. In Advances in Data Science: Women in Data Science and Mathematics (WiSDM) 2023 (pp. 335-352). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
2024: Jakini Kauba and Thomas Weighill. “Topological analysis of U.S. city demographics”.
2024: Christina Hoffman, Jakini Kauba, Julie Reidy, and Thomas Weighill. "Proportionality in multi-winner RCV elections: A simulation study with ballot truncation”.
Future Non-Profit:
My greatest career aspiration is to open a non profit ​organization that not only provides shelter for the homeless, but also offers a second chance at life. More than food and shelter, my facility will offer free education, health care, child care services, opportunities for professional development, and so much more! My tutoring and consulting services are only the beginning of what's to come.
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Social Justice in Mathematics:
In late 2020, I was informed of a research study conducted at Duke University that considered the possibility of designing voting district lines that more accurately reflected regional populations in an effort to reduce, if not eliminate the impact of gerrymandering. The mere idea that math is being used to create a more just world gives me hope for my future research and the impact I hope to have in our world.
I am more than certain that the research I conduct will influence my work at my future Non-Profit organization and vice versa. While I am thrilled to start this journey, my first step is completing my doctorate degree which is enhancing my understanding of statistics and other stochastic related fields while also exploring various research opportunities related to the many different social justice concerns of America and the rest of our world.
Research Interests and Career Goals
2026: Presented on "A Comprehensive Overview of the Effects of Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, and Trauma on Cognitive Functioning" at HHMI Janelia February Meeting in Ashburn, VA.
2025: Presented on "A Comprehensive Overview of the Effects of Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, and Trauma on Cognitive Functioning" at UNC Greensboro's Research in Mathematics and Statistics in Greensboro, NC.
2025: Presented on "A Comprehensive Overview of the Effects of Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, and Trauma on Cognitive Functioning" at HHMI Gilliam Annual Meeting in Chevy Chase, MD.
2025: Presented on "A Stochastic Approach to Modeling Drug Delivery Using Spatial Poisson Process" at the Math for All Conference, the Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology Final Annual Symposium, the University of Melbourne (Invited Talk), and the AWM Research Symposium (Invited Talk).
2024: Presented on "The Quantification of Endosomal Escape using Spatial Poisson Processes" at HHMI Gilliam Annual Meeting in Chevy Chase, MD.
2024: Presented on "Quantifying Hierarchy and Documenting Inequity in PhD-Granting Mathematical Sciences Departments in the United States​​" at the Math for All Conference by way of Clemson University.
2023: Presented on "A Topological Analysis of US City Demographics" at Carolina Math Seminar in Columbia, South Carolina.
2023: Presented on "Why Grad School?" at Carolina Math Seminar in Columbia, South Carolina.
2023: Presented on "Building Your Village" at National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) MATHFest in Atlanta, Georgia.
2023: Presented on "A Topological Analysis of US City Demographics" at National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) MATHFest in Atlanta, Georgia.
2023: Presented on "A Topological Analysis of US City Demographics" at Math Association of America (MAA) MathFest in Tampa, Florida. (Invited Talk)
2022: Presented on "Structural Racism and Healthcare" at The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) by way of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
2022: Presented on "An Analysis of Racial Segregation Using Topological Data Analysis" at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro in Greensboro, NC. (Invited Talk)
2019: Presented on "The Origins of ANOVA" at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro in Greensboro, NC.
2018: Presented on “The Resiliency of the ‘Strong Black Woman’ " in the Applied Research Course at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in Greensboro, NC.
2016: Presented on "The Association of Discrimination and Lifetime Alcohol Abuse among African American Men” by way of the Diversity Summer Internship Program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD and at the
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Orlando, Florida.
2015: Presented on “Nature’s Pace Maker: Studying the Relationship between Heartrate and Lifespan Across the Vertebrate Family Tree” at NC State's Mid-Atlantic PREP/IMSD Research Symposium in Raleigh, NC, the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Seattle, WA, and the Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium in Raleigh, NC.
2012: Presented on “The Effect of the Chemical Environment on the Function of a Nanobiosensor" by way of the North Carolina ProjectSEED program at the Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium in Raleigh, NC.