Meraiah Martinez

Meraiah Martinez

Position: Assistant Professor

Department: Mathematics and Computer Science

Office: Westerman Hall 122

Phone: 913.360.7531

Contact Meraiah Martinez

Meraiah Martinez grew up moving between California and Colorado and graduated from BC in 2019.  She received her M.S. (2021) and Ph.D. (2023) in mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  Meraiah’s primary research area is coding theory, although she greatly enjoys combinatorics, cryptography, and graph theory, as well.  In her free time, she enjoys reading and making a variety of things from yarn.

EDUCATION 

Ph.D., University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2023

Dissertation: On Dyadic Parity Check Codes and Their Generalizations

M.S., University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2021

B.A., Benedictine College, 2019

Publications

 Martinez and C. A. Kelley, “Minimum distance and other properties of quasi-dyadic parity check codes,” 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Espoo, Finland, 2022, pp. 2118-2123, doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834770.