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C&O PhD student has won first place in the inaugural Mathematics Doctoral Prize competition at

the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. This new prize will be awarded annually to recognize the achievement of graduating doctoral students in the Faculty of Mathematics. Harmony will receive a $1500 award and a medal at the June 2019 convocation. Harmony was also named University Finalist for the Governor General's Gold Medal at the doctoral level.

Harmony's PhD thesis, entitled , was completed under the supervision of Professor . A major contribution of Harmony's thesis was the introduction of a new model of quantum walk, called a , based on orientable embeddings of graphs, and the development of tools from different areas of mathematics to study the properties of the model. "I view Harmony's thesis as a major and creative piece of work, which will need to be cited in any future publications in the area", said Professor Godsil.

Harmony is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre de Recherches Mathématique at the Université de Montréal.