Krystal Taylor is a shining testament to what talent and determination working together can do. Krystal walked into my office at the University of Missouri in 2006 and made it very clear that she wants to become a successful research mathematician. After ripping through the preliminary exams where she outscored the vast majority of students who often had a much more extensive undergraduate mathematics background, Krystal wrote a very interesting PH.D. dissertation on the applications of Generalized Radon transform methods to problems in geometric measure theory and lattice point counting. She moved with me to the University of Rochester in 2010 and became my first PH.D. student at UR.

My collaboration with Krystal continues to this day. In collaboration with Mihalis Mourgoglou we created a direct and simple approach to the study of distance sets that contain intervals. This line of research continued in collaboration with Allan Greenleaf. It has been very rewarding to observe Krystal develop as a mathematician over the years, from her postdoctoral days at the Technion to the tenured position at Ohio State University where she has excelled in every aspect of academic life.