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I am a former doctoral student of Clemens Heuberger and Andrei Asinowski, currently employed as a Research Fellow in Dmitry Chistikov's EPSRC grant Two-way automata: limitations and frontiers in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.

My research interests are:

  • Enumerative Combinatorics, in particular finding bijections and using computers to guess counting formulas;
  • Analytic Combinatorics, in particular using generating functions to study lattice paths and sometimes trees;
  • Formal Language Theory and Automata Theory, which I am currently learning more about. I am very interested in gaining better understanding of the nature of generating functions (rational, algebraic, differentiably finite, etc) via language theoretic methods.
My professional interests not directly related to research are:
  • Reducing and removing barriers to participation of women in mathematics and computer science;
  • Increasing participation of researchers from the global South (particularly Africa, since I am South African) in the international research community.
Feel free to contact me at: sarah.selkirk@warwick.ac.uk.