Recent Ph.D.s

Summer 2025

Mohammed Ahmed AbuShoshah

  • Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
  • Thesis Title: Rectangular Jets with Large Aspect Ratios: Shock Cell Dynamics and Screech Tone Amplitude Modulation
  • First Job Placement: Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dharan, Saudi Arabia

Athar Bsharat

  • Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Aseel Farhat
  • Thesis Title: Impact of Rotation on Global Attractor Dimension for 3D Primitive Equations

Milind Gunjal

  • Major: Pure Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Ettore Aldrovandi
  • Thesis Title: Monoidal 2-Categories and K-theory of Waldhausen Categories

Siming Liang

  • Major: Financial Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Feng Bao
  • Thesis Title: Tracking and Controlling High-Dimensional Nonlinear Complex Systems using Generative AI and Data-Driven Feedback Control
  • First Job Placement: Postdoc, Oak Ridge National Lab

Meghan Peltier

  • Major: Biomathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Kathryn Jones and Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: A Mathematical Model Analysis of Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis
  • First Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University

Yue Shen

  • Major: Applied Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: K. Gallivan/W. Huang
  • Thesis Title: Role Extraction in Networks by Scaled Neighborhood Pattern Similarity for Scaled Stochastic Block Models
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Buffalo Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Buffalo, NY

Wonjin Song

  • Major: Financial Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Feng Bao
  • Thesis Title: Enhancing Reinforcement Learning and Neuroevolution in Noisy Environments via Advanced Data Assimilation

Justin Valletta

  • Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Martin Bauer
  • Thesis Title: Breakdown of higher-order Euler-Arnold equations
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Matthew Winters

  • Major: Pure Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Amod Agashe
  • Thesis Title: Rational Torsion and Reducibility for Abelian Varieties Associated to Newforms

Spring 2025

Francis Baffour-Awuah Jr

  • Major: Biomathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Debbie Streigel and Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Identifying Distinct Patient Subgroups in Sepsis

Franquiz Caraballo Alba

  • Major: Pure Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
  • Thesis Title: Topics in Intersection Theory: Algebraic and Tropical Perspectives
  • First Job Placement: Postdoc, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelos

Md Arafatur Rahman

  • Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Arash Fahim
  • Thesis Title: Deep Policy Gradient Methods in Optimal Control Problems
  • First Job Placement: AVP, Model Risk Citibank, Manhattan, NY

Savvas Sardelis

  • Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Ziad Musslimani
  • Thesis Title: Riemannian Broyden Family of Limited-memory Quasi-Newton Method
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL

Jonathan Schillinger

  • Major: Pure Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Aleksandr Reznikov
  • Thesis Title: Asymptotics & Equilibria of Gaussian Kernels: An Expansion of Energy Theory

Fall 2024

Zhifeng Deng

  • Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan and Wen Huang
  • Thesis Title: Smoothly Evolving Geodesics in the Special Orthogonal Group: Definitions, Computations and Applications
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Xiamen University

Hoang Nguyen

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Lingjiong Zhu
  • Thesis Title: Langevin Dynamics and Diffusion Models: Sampling in Machine Learning and Generative AI
  • First Job Placement: Data Scientist, Meta Platforms

Summer 2024

Nicole Bruce

  • Major: Biomathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Modeling Synchronization in Pancreatic Islets and Biomarker Discovery in Sepsis
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Yunzheng Lyu

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Feng Bao
  • Thesis Title: Convergence analysis of kernel learning FBSDE filter

Shirin Provat

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
  • Thesis Title: Developing Numerical Methods and Optimal Boundary Conditions for Enhances Electroconvection Under AC Voltage
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Susan Rogowski

  • Major: Biomathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Nicholas Cogan and Aseel Farhat
  • Thesis Title: Parameter Estimation Techniques for Nonlinear Biological Models
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, North Carolina State University

Ethan Semrad

  • Major: Biomathematics
  • PhD Advisor: Thomas Needham
  • Thesis Title: Metric and Categorical Properties of Hypergraphs with Applications to Ecological Data
  • First Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Wabash College

Spring 2024

Cody Estebe

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
  • Thesis Title: A hybrid particle and coupled moment-of-fluid level set method for multiphase flows

Emmanuel Hartman

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Martin Bauer and Eric Klassen
  • Thesis Title: Methods of Shape Analysis: Optimal Transport, Geometric Measure Theory, and Deep Learning

Abdullah Malik

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Tyler Foster and Mark van Hoeij
  • Thesis Title: Simplicial Methods in Graph Machine Learning
  • First Job Placement: Adjunct Professor, Tallahassee State College and FSU

Jared Miller

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Sam Ballas
  • Thesis Title: Conjugating Representations into Lie Subgroups
  • First Job Placement: Senior Data Scientist, Expansia

Braulio Molina Gonzalez

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Sergio Fenley
  • Thesis Title: Partially Hyperbolic Systems: Closed Periodic Curves and Closed Orbits

Nicholas Ossi

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Ziad Musslimani
  • Thesis Title: Nonlocal integrable models and constant-intensity waves in non-Hermitian media
  • First Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Azaryah Wilson

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Feng Bao
  • Thesis Title: Bayesian Smoother Tuning: Data Assimilation in the Geosciences with Super-parameter Optimization
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL

Ruilong Yue

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
  • Thesis Title: The Global Active Subspace Method
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo

Shuguang Zhang

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan and Wen Huang
  • Thesis Title: Riemannian Broyden Of Limited-memory Quasi-Newton Methods
  • First Job Placement: Model Analyst, Citibank, Dallas, TX

Fall 2023

Yijia Zhou

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Adrian Barbu and Kyle Gallivan
  • Thesis Title: Scalable Clustering: Large Scale Unsupervised Learning of Gaussian Mixture Models with Outliers
  • First Job Placement: AI Researcher, Huawei, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Summer 2023

Abdullah Aurko

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Justin Cole and Ziad Musslimani
  • Thesis Title: Instabilities in Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations: Classical and Neural Network Approaches
  • First Job Placement: Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida

Fan Bai

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram and Bhargav Karamched
  • Thesis Title: Neuronal Development: From Polarization to Axonal Growth
  • First Job Placement: Principal Product Development Engineer, The Timken Company

Anindya Chanda

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Sergio Fenley
  • Thesis Title: Quasigeodesic Behavior of Anosov Flows: A Bridge Between Dynamics and Large Scale Geometry
  • First Job Placement: Visiting Fellow, TIFR, Mumbai, India

Hui (Alyssa) Duan

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
  • Thesis Title: Computational Methods for Estimating Global Sensitivity Indices and Shapley Values
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo

Hung Duong

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Arash Fahim and Michael Mascagni
  • Thesis Title: Solving High-Dimensional Fully Nonlinear Convex Partial Differential Equations Using Deep Learning

Yuxiu Lu

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Martin Bauer
  • Thesis Title: The Lp-Fisher-Rao metric and information geometry

Julia Ream

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Marc Henry de Frahan and Mark Sussman
  • Thesis Title: Large Eddy Simulations to Investigate the Fundamental Flow Physics of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Turbulent Jets
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Hui Sun

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Feng Bao
  • Thesis Title: Stochastic Optimal Control Through Gradient Projection Method and Backward Action Learning
  • First Job Placement: Citi Delaware

Meng Wei

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan and Wen Huang
  • Thesis Title: Solving Clustering Problems Using Riemannian Optimization
  • First Job Placement: Senior Analyst, Citibank, Tampa, FL

Zezhong Zhang

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Feng Bao
  • Thesis Title: Mathematical Study on the Expressive Power of Machine Learning and Applications in Optimal Filtering Problems
  • First Job Placement: Oak Ridge National Lab

Spring 2023

Austin Anderson

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alexander Reznikov
  • Thesis Title: Asymptotics of Certain Short-Range Interactions on Rectifiable Sets and Beyond
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Florida Polytechnic University

Shreya Bose

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Ibrahim Ekren
  • Thesis Title: Risk aversion in Kyle-Back models
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo

Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Ziad Musslimani
  • Thesis Title: Nonlinear wave propagation in non-Hermitian media: theory and computation
  • First Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Angelica Davenport

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nicholas Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Mathematical Models of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and HIV: Methods to Inform Treatment Regimens in Preclinical and Clinical Settings

Samuel Dent

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Aseel Farhat
  • Thesis Title: Analytical Study of Feedback Control Data Assimilation Algorithms for Ocean Models
  • First Job Placement: Research Mathematician Engineer, Engineering Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS

Brad Mostowski

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Ibrahim Ekren
  • Thesis Title: Stochastic Liquidity in the Kyle-Back Model

Virginia Parkman

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nicholas Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Optimal Control Applied to a Canine Distemper Outbreak Modeled in an Animal Shelter

Edward (Alex) White

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alexander Reznikov
  • Thesis Title: Polarization and Covering on Sets of Low Smoothness: Studying Short Range Repulsive Points by Asymptotic Behavior

Fall 2022

Mehran Fazli

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Modeling and Multi-Time Scale Analysis of Endocrine Cells: From Single Cell Excitability to Network Synchronization
  • First Job Placement: Biomathematician, Austere Environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis (ACESO)

Summer 2022

Mehdi (Soheil) Abdi Anbouhi

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
  • Thesis Title: Universal Mappings and the Metric Geometry of Functional Data
  • First Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Haverford College

Jinglun Cai

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval and Xiuwen Liu
  • Thesis Title: Two Topics in Deep Learning Based Dialogue Systems

Spring 2022

Yiran Chen

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
  • Thesis Title: Simulation and Goodness-of-Fit Tests of Copulas
  • First Job Placement: Senior Analyst, Citibank, Twitter

Zishi Feng

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Brian Ewald and Ziad Musslimani
  • Thesis Title: A dynamic renormalization approach for solving stochastic differential equations
  • First Job Placement: Risk Analyst, Citibank, Tampa

Haixu Wang

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Ling Zhu
  • Thesis Title: A Discrete-Time Self- and Mutual-exciting Models
  • First Job Placement: AVP, Citibank

Yi Zhou

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
  • Thesis Title: Algorithms for Factoring Linear Recurrence Operators

Fall 2021

Hubeyb Gurdogan

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
  • Thesis Title: Eigenvector Shrinkage for Estimating Covariance Matrices

Benjamin Prather

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
  • Thesis Title: Octonions - Hilbert Spaces, Fibrations and Analysis
  • First Job Placement: Adjunct Professor, Tallahassee Community College

Summer 2021

Joshua Kimrey

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Geometric Singular Perturbation Analysis of Early Afterdepolarizations in Cardiac Myocytes: Canard Analysis of Cardiac Action Potential Models
  • First Job Placement: Senior Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

Tarak Shisode

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Washington Mio and Jinfeng Zhang
  • Thesis Title: Improving the accuracy of 3D chromosome structure inference and analyzing the organization of genome in early embryogenesis using single cell Hi-C data

Xiaoyu Wang

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Ling Zhu
  • Thesis Title: Langevin Algorithms in Data Science
  • First Job Placement: Postdoc, Washington University in St. Louis

Spring 2021

Huang Hua

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Adrian Barbu and Kyle Gallivan
  • Thesis Title: Robust machine learning and the application to lane change decision making prediction
  • First Job Placement: Postdoc, FSU Department of Biology

Fall 2020

Shayea Waqaian Aldossari

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
  • Thesis Title: Algorithms for Simplifying Differential Equations
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Peng Diao

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: M. Yousuff Hussaini and Mark Sussman
  • Thesis Title: Parareal Algorithm Applied to the Stefan Problem

Yeuran Oh

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Islet Synchronization in a Hybrid Experimental and Mathematical System
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health

Summer 2020

Orhan Akal

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Adrian Barbu
  • Thesis Title: Learning Chan-Vese
  • First Job Placement: Machine Learning Scientist, Overjet.AI, Boston, MA

John Henry Bergschneider

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Wolfgang Heil
  • Thesis Title: 2-Stratifolds with Finite Fundamental Group
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of North Georgia

Patrick Eastham

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Moore, Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: A Novel Model for Precipitation Reactions in Microfluidic Devices
  • First Job Placement: Pharmacometrician, Certara, Inc.

Lydia Parker Marie Eldredge

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Kathleen Petersen
  • Thesis Title: Minimal Mahler Measure in Cubic Fields
  • First Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology

Jamie Fox

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
  • Thesis Title: Applications of Polynomial Chaos to Monte Carlo Simulation
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo, Charlotte

Yangzi Guo

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Adrian Barbu
  • Thesis Title: A Study of Feature Interactions and Pruning on Neural Networks
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Risk Analyst, Citibank, Tampa, FL

Opal Jane Graham

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Philip Bowers
  • Thesis Title: Rigidity of Point and Sphere Configurations
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of North Georgia

Haibin Hang

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
  • Thesis Title: A New Formulation of 1-D Persistent Homology Via Correspondence Modules
  • First Job Placement: Postdoc, University of Delaware

Yang Liu

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman, M. Yousuff Hussaini
  • Thesis Title: A Novel Numerical Method for Resolving Micro-Structure Based on Supermesh for Multi-Material Systems

Zhiqiu Li

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Lingjiong Zhu
  • Thesis Title: Option Pricing for An Affine Jump-Diffusion Model
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo

Matthew McCurdy

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Moore, Xiaoming Wang
  • Thesis Title: Convection in Coupled Fluid-Porous Media Systems: A Tale of Two Fluids

Michael Niemeier

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Ettore Aldrovandi
  • Thesis Title: Central Extensions of Simplicial Groups and Presheaves of Simplicial Groups
  • First Job Placement: Instructor, The Indiana Academy (Ball State University)

Deniz Ozturk

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Dynamics of Reversible and Irreversible Fouling and Optimal Control Analysis of Backwashing Timing for Hollow Fiber Microfiltration

Arun Kumar Polala

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
  • Thesis Title: Multilevel Monte Carlo and Debiased Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo, NYC

Zhe Su

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Eric Klassen, Martin Bauer
  • Thesis Title: Elastic Shape Analysis of Curves and Surfaces
  • First Job Placement: Postdoc, UCLA

Kangwei Xing

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Arash Fahim
  • Thesis Title: Model-Independent Superhedging with Portfolio Constraints in Continuous Time under Weak S topology

Canlin Zhang

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Xiuwen Liu, Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Natural Language Processing by Deep Neural Networks
  • First Job Placement: Machine Learning Engineer, Circulo Health

Spring 2020

Grayson Jorgenson

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
  • Thesis Title: Secant Indices, Duality Defect, and Generalizations of the Segre Zeta Function
  • First Job Placement: Data Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Heting Yan

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
  • Thesis Title: Deep Learning for Limit Order Book Trading and Mid-Price Movement
  • First Job Placement: Data Scientist, Microsoft

Thanittha Kowan

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Philip Bowers
  • Thesis Title: Conformal Tilings and Expansion Complexes

Fall 2019

Antigoni Georgiadou

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman, Tomas Plewa
  • Thesis Title: Global Optimization in Stellar Evolution Applications

Feifan Liu

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
  • Thesis Title: Novel Numerical Analysis Methods, Using the WENO and WENO-Z Algorithms, for Combining Observational Data with Model Predictions for Improving Forecasts
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Risk and Stress Test Senior Analyst, Citibank

Summer 2019

Johnna Pauline Barnaby

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Harsh Jain
  • Thesis Title: Mathematical Models of Prostate Cancer Progression and Response to Treatment
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Shippensburg University

Carolyn Marie Eady

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: On the Use of Conformal Mappings, Invariants and Warpings in Investigations of the Cortical Surface
  • First Job Placement: Staff Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

Inmaculada Concepcion Sorribes Rodriguez

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Harsh Jain
  • Thesis Title: Gliomas Diagnosis, Progression and Treatment: A Mathematical Approach
  • First Job Placement: Pharmacometrician, Certara, Inc.

Matthew Crawford Villemarette

  • Major: Applied and Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
  • Thesis Title: Second Order Discrete Maximum Preserving Finite Difference and Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations
  • First Job Placement: Senior Professional Staff Applied Mathematician

Spring 2019

Manu Aggarwal

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Mathematical Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis for Biological Systems
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health

Andrey Igorevich Manakov

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Jerry Magnan
  • Thesis Title: Construction of a General Trading Approach for Financial Markets with Artificial Neural Networks

Mohammad Aamir Rasheed

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Wolfgang Heil
  • Thesis Title: Surface Subgroups of 3-Manifold Groups
  • First Job Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Seyyed Navid Salehy

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
  • Thesis Title: Random Walks Over Point Processes and their Application in Finance
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, University of New Orleans

Seyyed Nima Salehy

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
  • Thesis Title: Belief Function Theory: Monte Carlo Methods and Applications to Stock Markets
  • First Job Placement: Adjunct Faculty, Louisiana Tech University

Ryan Michael Vinson

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Modelling the Synchronous Behavior of Pancreatic Islets
  • First Job Placement: Data Analyst, Naval Information Warfare Center

Fall 2018

Zailei Cheng

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Lingjiong Zhu
  • Thesis Title: Diffusion Approximation of a Risk Model
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Risk Analyst, Citibank, Tampa, FL

Summer 2018

Nihan Acar

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Exploration of the Role of Disinfection Timing, Duration, and Other Control Parameters on Bacterial Populations Using a Mathematical Model
  • First Job Placement: Teaching Faculty, Florida State University

Gitesh Dawer

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Adrian Barbu
  • Thesis Title: Neural Rule Ensembles: Encoding Feature Interactions into Neural Networks
  • First Job Placement: Machine Learning Engineer, Apple

Yaqing You

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan
  • Thesis Title: A Riemannian approach for computing geodesics in elastic shape space and its applications
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA

Xinru Yuan

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan, Pierre-Antoine Absil
  • Thesis Title: Riemannian Optimization Methods for Averaging Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices
  • First Job Placement: Machine Learning Engineer, Ant Group, Beijing

Spring 2018

Serdar Cellat

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Washington Mio, Giray Okten
  • Thesis Title: Metric Learning for Shape Classification: A Fast and Efficient Approach with Monte Carlo Methods
  • First Job Placement: Data Scientist, Liberty Mutual

Atanaska Zapryanova Dobreva

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Using Mathematical Tools to Investigate the Autoimmune Hair Loss Disease Alopecia Areata
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Augusta University

Sepideh Ebadi

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Evolutionary Dynamics of Bacterial Persistence Under Nutrient/ Antibiotic Actions
  • First Job Placement: Product Manager, University of Utah

Daniel Eduardo Galvis

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Distributed Neural Network Models for Birdsong Production
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Birmingham, England

Matthew Charles Hancock

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Jerry Magnan
  • Thesis Title: Algorithmic Lung Nodule Analysis in Chest Tomography Images: Lung Nodule Malignancy Likelihood Prediction and A Statistical Extension of the Level Set Image Segmentation Method
  • First Job Placement: Scientific Software Developer, Enthought, Austin, TX

Jay Leach

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Peterson
  • Thesis Title: Symmetric surfaces and the character variety
  • First Job Placement: Lecturer at Bowling Green State University

Hua-Yi Lin

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Arash Fahim
  • Thesis Title: Optimal Portfolio Execution Under Time-Varying Liquidity Constraints
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo, Charlotte

Yaineli Valdes

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Ettore Aldrovandi
  • Thesis Title: The 1-Type of K-Theory for a Waldhausen Category as a Multifunctor
  • First Job Placement: Teaching Faculty, Department of Mathematics, FSU

Ethan Randy Williams

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Oberlin
  • Thesis Title: Affine Dimension of Smooth Curves and Surfaces
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Tallahassee Community College

Xiping Zhang

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
  • Thesis Title: Characteristic Classes and Local Invariants on Determinantal Varieties (Temperate)
  • First Job Placement: Postdoc, Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences

Fall 2017

Jian Li

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Modeling of Biofilms with Implementations

Wan-Yu Tsai

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Arash Fahim
  • Thesis Title: Monte Carlo Scheme For A Singular Control Problem: Investment-Consumption Under Proportional Transaction Costs
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Finance Analyst, Bank of America, Charlotte

Sergiusz Jan Wesolowski

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram, Wei Wu
  • Thesis Title: Developing SRSF Shape Analysis Techniques for Applications in Neuroscience and Genomics
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah

Wen Xu

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
  • Thesis Title: Third Order A-Hypergeometric Functions

Melissa Sue Marchand

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan, Paul Van Dooren
  • Thesis Title: Low-rank Riemannian Optimization Approach to the Role Extraction Problem
  • First Job Placement: Scientist, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City, FL

Summer 2017

Chaoxu Pei

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman, M. Yousuff Hussaini
  • Thesis Title: Space-Time Spectral Element Methods in Fluid Dynamics and Materials Science
  • First Job Placement: Equity Model Validator, Citibank, Tampa, FL

Erdal Imamoglu

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
  • Thesis Title: Algorithms for Solving Linear Differential Equations with Rational Function Coefficients
  • First Job Placement: Postdoc, North Carolina State University

Chenchen Zhou

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
  • Thesis Title: On the Multidimensional Default Threshold Model for Credit Risk Model
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo, Charlotte

Diana Lissett Flores-Diaz

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: An Electrophysiological and Mathematical Modeling Study of Developmental and Sex Effects on Neurons of the Zebra Finch Song System
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University

Omid Khanmohamadi

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
  • Thesis Title: High-Order, Efficient, Numerical Algorithms For Integration In Manifolds Implicitly Defined By Level Sets

Yahya Ahmed Almalki

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
  • Thesis Title: Sorvali Dilatation and Spin Divisors on Riemann and Klein Surfaces

Jian Wang

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Jinfeng Zhang, Giray Okten
  • Thesis Title: Ensemble Methods for Capturing Dynamics of Limit Order Books
  • First Job Placement: Senior AI Research Scientist, Byton, Santa Clara

Yunyi Shen

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Matilde Marcolli, Paolo Aluffi
  • Thesis Title: Arithmetic Aspects of Noncommutative Geometry: Motives of Noncommutative Tori and Phase Transitions on GL(n) and Shimura Varieties Systems

Yu-Ying Tzeng

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Giray Okten, Paul Beaumont
  • Thesis Title: Quasi-Monte Carlo and Markov Chain Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Estimation and Prediction of Time Series Models
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Risk Management and Insurance, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan

Leona H. Sparaco

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Kathleen Petersen
  • Thesis Title: Character Varieties of Knots and Links with Symmetries
  • First Job Placement: University of Scranton

Spring 2017

Vehpi Yildirim

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Gene Knockout Compensation in Pancreatic Beta-Cells
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands

Corey Harris

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
  • Thesis Title: Effective Methods in Intersection Theory and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry
  • First Job Placement: Postdoc, Max Planck Institut for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig

Yao Dai

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
  • Thesis Title: Game-Theoretic Models of Animal Behavior Observed in Some Recent Experiments
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Jian Li

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Mathematical Modeling of Biofilms and Implementations
  • First Job Placement: Senior Analyst in Data Science, Liberty Mutual

Liang-Hsuan Tai

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan, Anuj Srivastava
  • Thesis Title: Trend and Variable-Phase Seasonality Estimation from Functional Data
  • First Job Placement: Research Engineer, United Microelectronics, Hsinchu, Taiwan

David Mandel

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
  • Thesis Title: Random Sobol - Sensitivity Analysis and Model Robustness
  • First Job Placement: Associate, JP Morgan, NYC

Mehmet Emin Aktas

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Eriko Hironaka
  • Thesis Title: Topology of N-gonal Curves
  • First Job Placement: John T Beresford Endowed Chair Position in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Central Oklahoma

Daniel Weingard

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Scroll Waves: And How They Interact with Non-Reactive Knots, Tori, And Spheres
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo

Yuanda Chen

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
  • Thesis Title: Modeling Limit Order Book Dynamics using Hawkes Processes
  • First Job Placement: Associate, Goldman Sachs, NYC

John Max Wyse

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
  • Thesis Title: The Impact of Competition on Temporal Musth Strategies: A Game-Theoretic Approach
  • First Job Placement: Software Engineer, MathWorks

Joseph Patrick McKenna

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
  • Thesis Title: Insulin Secretion Rhythms: Calcium Regulation of Beta-Cell Metabolism and Rescue of Islet Oscillations
  • First Job Placement: Research Scientist, Amazon

Fall 2016

Kouadio David Yao

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Victor Patrangenaru, Alec Kercheval
  • Thesis Title: Statistical Analysis on Object Spaces with Applications to 3D Face Analysis and Exchange Rates Data
  • First Job Placement: Modeling Analyst, The Cincinnati Insurance Companies

Chun-Yuan Chiu

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
  • Thesis Title: Modeling Credit Risk in the Default Threshold Framework
  • First Job Placement: Quantitative Analyst, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, NYC

Robert Brantley Billet

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Eriko Hironaka
  • Thesis Title: Flow Equivalence Classes of Pseudo-Anosov Surface Homeomorphisms
  • First Job Placement: Assistant Professor, Tallahassee Community College

Summer 2016

Justin Eilertsen

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Jerry Magnan
  • Thesis Title: Local and Global Bifurcations in Finite-Dimensional Center Manifold Equations of Double-Diffusive Convection
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Dane Mayhook

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Philip Bowers
  • Thesis Title: Conformal Tilings and Type
  • First Job Placement: Lecturer, Iowa State University

Spring 2016

Mao Li

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
  • Thesis Title: Quantifying Phenotypic Variation through Local Persistent Homology and Imaging
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

David Allen Ekrut

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nicholas Cogan
  • Thesis Title: Symmetry Solutions of the Multiphase Model with Biological Applications
  • First Job Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas, Austin

Angela Michelle Jarrett

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan, M. Yousuff Hussaini
  • Thesis Title: Investigating Persistent Infections Using Mathematical Modeling and Analyses
  • First Job Placement: Staff Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

Diego Hernan Diaz Martinez

  • Major: Biomath
  • PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
  • Thesis Title: Multiscale Summaries of Probability Measures with Applications to Plant and Microbiome Data
  • First Job Placement: Battery Tool Design and Analysis Engineer, Clarios

Brendon Kerr Ballenger-Fazzone

  • Major: Pure Math
  • PhD Advisor: Craig A. Nolder
  • Thesis Title: An Analysis of Conjugate Harmonic Components of Monogenic Functions and Lambda Harmonic Functions
  • First Job Placement: Florida Education Association

Justin Thomas Cole

  • Major: Applied & Computational Math
  • PhD Advisor: Ziad Musslimani
  • Thesis Title: Nonlinear Schrodinger-type Systems: Complex Lattices and Non-paraxiality

Yuanda Chen

  • Major: Financial Math
  • PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
  • Thesis Title: Modeling Limit Order Book Dynamics using Hawkes Processes