Recent Ph.D.s

Summer 2025

  • Student: 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
  • Student: Athar Bsharat
    Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
    PhD Advisor: Aseel Farhat
    Thesis Title: Impact of Rotation on Global Attractor Dimension for 3D Primitive Equations
  • Student: Milind Gunjal
    Major: Pure Mathematics
    PhD Advisor: Ettore Aldrovandi
    Thesis Title: Monoidal 2-Categories and K-theory of Waldhausen Categories
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Meghan Peltier
    Major: Biomathematics
    PhD Advisor: Kathryn Jones and Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: A Mathematical Model Analysis of Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis
  • Student: Wonjin Song
    Major: Financial Mathematics
    PhD Advisor: Feng Bao
    Thesis Title: Enhancing Reinforcement Learning and Neuroevolution in Noisy Environments via Advanced Data Assimilation
  • Student: Justin Valletta
    Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
    PhD Advisor: Martin Bauer
    Thesis Title: Breakdown of higher-order Euler-Arnold equations
  • Student: Matthew Winters
    Major: Pure Mathematics
    PhD Advisor: Amod Agashe
    Thesis Title: Rational Torsion and Reducibility for Abelian Varieties Associated to Newforms

Spring 2025

  • Student: Francis Baffour-Awuah Jr
    Major: Biomathematics
    PhD Advisor: Debbie Streigel and Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: Identifying Distinct Patient Subgroups in Sepsis
  • Student: Franquiz Caraballo Alba
    Major: Pure Mathematics
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Topics in Intersection Theory: Algebraic and Tropical Perspectives
  • Student: Md Arafatur Rahman
    Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
    PhD Advisor: Arash Fahim
    Thesis Title: Deep Policy Gradient Methods in Optimal Control Problems
  • Student: Savvas Sardelis
    Major: Applied and Computational Mathematics
    PhD Advisor: Ziad Musslimani
    Thesis Title: Riemannian Broyden Family of Limited-memory Quasi-Newton Method
  • Student: Jonathan Schillinger
    Major: Pure Mathematics
    PhD Advisor: Aleksandr Reznikov
    Thesis Title: Asymptotics & Equilibria of Gaussian Kernels: An Expansion of Energy Theory

Fall 2024

  • Student: 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
  • Student: Hoang Nguyen
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Lingjiong Zhu
    Thesis Title: Langevin Dynamics and Diffusion Models: Sampling in Machine Learning and Generative AI

Summer 2024

  • Student: Nicole Bruce
    Major: Biomathematics
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Modeling Synchronization in Pancreatic Islets and Biomarker Discovery in Sepsis
  • Student: Yunzheng Lyu
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Feng Bao
    Thesis Title: Convergence analysis of kernel learning FBSDE filter
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Susan Rogowski
    Major: Biomathematics
    PhD Advisor: Nicholas Cogan and Aseel Farhat
    Thesis Title: Parameter Estimation Techniques for Nonlinear Biological Models
  • Student: Ethan Semrad
    Major: Biomathematics
    PhD Advisor: Thomas Needham
    Thesis Title: Metric and Categorical Properties of Hypergraphs with Applications to Ecological Data

Spring 2024

  • Student: 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
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Abdullah Malik
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Tyler Foster and Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Simplicial Methods in Graph Machine Learning
  • Student: Jared Miller
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Sam Ballas
    Thesis Title: Conjugating Representations into Lie Subgroups
  • Student: Braulio Molina Gonzalez
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Sergio Fenley
    Thesis Title: Partially Hyperbolic Systems: Closed Periodic Curves and Closed Orbits
  • Student: Nicholas Ossi
    Major: Applied and Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Ziad Musslimani
    Thesis Title: Nonlocal integrable models and constant-intensity waves in non-Hermitian media
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Ruilong Yue
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: The Global Active Subspace Method
  • Student: Shuguang Zhang
    Major: Applied and Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan and Wen Huang
    Thesis Title: Riemannian Broyden Of Limited-memory Quasi-Newton Methods

Fall 2023

  • Student: 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
  • Student: 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

Summer 2023

  • Student: 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
  • Student: Fan Bai
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram and Bhargav Karamched
    Thesis Title: Neuronal Development: From Polarization to Axonal Growth
  • Student: Anindya Chanda
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Sergio Fenley
    Thesis Title: Quasigeodesic Behavior of Anosov Flows: A Bridge Between Dynamics and Large Scale Geometry
  • Student: Hui (Alyssa) Duan
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Computational Methods for Estimating Global Sensitivity Indices and Shapley Values
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Yuxiu Lu
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Martin Bauer
    Thesis Title: The Lp-Fisher-Rao metric and information geometry
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Hui Sun
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Feng Bao
    Thesis Title: Stochastic Optimal Control Through Gradient Projection Method and Backward Action Learning
  • Student: Meng Wei
    Major: Applied and Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan and Wen Huang
    Thesis Title: Solving Clustering Problems Using Riemannian Optimization
  • Student: 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

Spring 2023

  • Student: Austin Anderson
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Alexander Reznikov
    Thesis Title: Asymptotics of Certain Short-Range Interactions on Rectifiable Sets and Beyond
  • Student: Shreya Bose
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Ibrahim Ekren
    Thesis Title: Risk aversion in Kyle-Back models
  • Student: Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli
    Major: Applied and Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Ziad Musslimani
    Thesis Title: Nonlinear wave propagation in non-Hermitian media: theory and computation
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Samuel Dent
    Major: Applied and Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Aseel Farhat
    Thesis Title: Analytical Study of Feedback Control Data Assimilation Algorithms for Ocean Models
  • Student: Brad Mostowski
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Ibrahim Ekren
    Thesis Title: Stochastic Liquidity in the Kyle-Back Model
  • Student: Virginia Parkman
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nicholas Cogan
    Thesis Title: Optimal Control Applied to a Canine Distemper Outbreak Modeled in an Animal Shelter
  • Student: 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

  • Student: 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

Summer 2022

  • Student: Mehdi (Soheil) Abdi Anbouhi
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
    Thesis Title: Universal Mappings and the Metric Geometry of Functional Data
  • Student: Jinglun Cai
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval and Xiuwen Liu
    Thesis Title: Two Topics in Deep Learning Based Dialogue Systems

Spring 2022

  • Student: Yiran Chen
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Simulation and Goodness-of-Fit Tests of Copulas
  • Student: Zishi Feng
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Brian Ewald and Ziad Musslimani
    Thesis Title: A dynamic renormalization approach for solving stochastic differential equations
  • Student: Haixu Wang
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Ling Zhu
    Thesis Title: A Discrete-Time Self- and Mutual-exciting Models
  • Student: Yi Zhou
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Algorithms for Factoring Linear Recurrence Operators

Fall 2021

  • Student: Hubeyb Gurdogan
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Eigenvector Shrinkage for Estimating Covariance Matrices
  • Student: Benjamin Prather
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Octonions - Hilbert Spaces, Fibrations and Analysis

Summer 2021

  • Student: 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
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Xiaoyu Wang
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Ling Zhu
    Thesis Title: Langevin Algorithms in Data Science

Spring 2021

  • Student: Hua Huang
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Adrian Barbu and Kyle Gallivan
    Thesis Title: Robust machine learning and the application to lane change decision making prediction

Fall 2020

  • Student: Shayea Waqaian Aldossari
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Algorithms for Simplifying Differential Equations
  • Student: Peng Diao
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: M. Yousuff Hussaini and Mark Sussman
    Thesis Title: Parareal Algorithm Applied to the Stefan Problem
  • Student: Yeuran Oh
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Islet Synchronization in a Hybrid Experimental and Mathematical System

Summer 2020

  • Student: Orhan Akal
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Adrian Barbu
    Thesis Title: Learning Chan-Vese
  • Student: John Henry Bergschneider
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Wolfgang Heil
    Thesis Title: 2-Stratifolds with Finite Fundamental Group
  • Student: Patrick Eastham
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nick Moore, Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: A Novel Model for Precipitation Reactions in Microfluidic Devices
  • Student: Lydia Parker Marie Eldredge
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Kathleen Petersen
    Thesis Title: Minimal Mahler Measure in Cubic Fields
  • Student: Jamie Fox
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Applications of Polynomial Chaos to Monte Carlo Simulation
  • Student: Yangzi Guo
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Adrian Barbu
    Thesis Title: A Study of Feature Interactions and Pruning on Neural Networks
  • Student: Opal Jane Graham
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Philip Bowers
    Thesis Title: Rigidity of Point and Sphere Configurations
  • Student: Haibin Hang
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
    Thesis Title: A New Formulation of 1-D Persistent Homology Via Correspondence Modules
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Zhiqiu Li
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Lingjiong Zhu
    Thesis Title: Option Pricing for An Affine Jump-Diffusion Model
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Michael Niemeier
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Ettore Aldrovandi
    Thesis Title: Central Extensions of Simplicial Groups and Presheaves of Simplicial Groups
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Arun Kumar Polala
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Multilevel Monte Carlo and Debiased Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering
  • Student: Zhe Su
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Eric Klassen, Martin Bauer
    Thesis Title: Elastic Shape Analysis of Curves and Surfaces
  • Student: Kangwei Xing
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Arash Fahim
    Thesis Title: Model-Independent Superhedging with Portfolio Constraints in Continuous Time under Weak S topology
  • Student: Canlin Zhang
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Xiuwen Liu, Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Natural Language Processing by Deep Neural Networks

Spring 2020

  • Student: Grayson Jorgenson
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Secant Indices, Duality Defect, and Generalizations of the Segre Zeta Function
  • Student: Heting Yan
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Deep Learning for Limit Order Book Trading and Mid-Price Movement
  • Student: Thanittha Kowan
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Philip Bowers
    Thesis Title: Conformal Tilings and Expansion Complexes

Fall 2019

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

Summer 2019

  • Student: Johnna Pauline Barnaby
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Harsh Jain
    Thesis Title: Mathematical Models of Prostate Cancer Progression and Response to Treatment
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Inmaculada Concepcion Sorribes Rodriguez
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Harsh Jain
    Thesis Title: Gliomas Diagnosis, Progression and Treatment: A Mathematical Approach
  • Student: Matthew Crawford Villemarette
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
    Thesis Title: Second Order Discrete Maximum Preserving Finite Difference and Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations

Spring 2019

  • Student: Manu Aggarwal
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: Mathematical Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis for Biological Systems
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Mohammad Aamir Rasheed
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Wolfgang Heil
    Thesis Title: Surface Subgroups of 3-Manifold Groups
  • Student: Seyyed Navid Salehy
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Random Walks Over Point Processes and their Application in Finance
  • Student: Seyyed Nima Salehy
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Belief Function Theory: Monte Carlo Methods and Applications to Stock Markets
  • Student: Ryan Michael Vinson
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Modelling the Synchronous Behavior of Pancreatic Islets

Fall 2018

  • Student: Zailei Cheng
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Lingjiong Zhu
    Thesis Title: Diffusion Approximation of a Risk Model

Summer 2018

  • Student: 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
  • Student: Gitesh Dawer
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Adrian Barbu
    Thesis Title: Neural Rule Ensembles: Encoding Feature Interactions into Neural Networks
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Xinru Yuan
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan, Pierre-Antoine Absil
    Thesis Title: Riemannian Optimization Methods for Averaging Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices

Spring 2018

  • Student: 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
  • Student: Atanaska Zapryanova Dobreva
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: Using Mathematical Tools to Investigate the Autoimmune Hair Loss Disease Alopecia Areata
  • Student: Sepideh Ebadi
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: Evolutionary Dynamics of Bacterial Persistence Under Nutrient/ Antibiotic Actions
  • Student: Daniel Eduardo Galvis
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Distributed Neural Network Models for Birdsong Production
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Hua-Yi Lin
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Arash Fahim
    Thesis Title: Optimal Portfolio Execution Under Time-Varying Liquidity Constraints
  • Student: Yaineli Valdes
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Ettore Aldrovandi
    Thesis Title: The 1-Type of K-Theory for a Waldhausen Category as a Multifunctor
  • Student: Ethan Randy Williams
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Richard Oberlin
    Thesis Title: Affine Dimension of Smooth Curves and Surfaces
  • Student: Xiping Zhang
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Characteristic Classes and Local Invariants on Determinantal Varieties (Temperate)

Fall 2017

  • Student: Jian Li
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: Modeling of Biofilms with Implementations
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Sergiusz Jan Wesolowski
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram, Wei Wu
    Thesis Title: Developing SRSF Shape Analysis Techniques for Applications in Neuroscience and Genomics
  • Student: Wen Xu
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Third Order A-Hypergeometric Functions
  • Student: 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

Summer 2017

  • Student: 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
  • Student: Erdal Imamoglu
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Algorithms for Solving Linear Differential Equations with Rational Function Coefficients
  • Student: Chenchen Zhou
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: On the Multidimensional Default Threshold Model for Credit Risk Model
  • Student: 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
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Yahya Ahmed Almalki
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
    Thesis Title: Sorvali Dilatation and Spin Divisors on Riemann and Klein Surfaces
  • Student: Jian Wang
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Jinfeng Zhang, Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Ensemble Methods for Capturing Dynamics of Limit Order Books
  • Student: 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
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Leona H. Sparaco
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Kathleen Petersen
    Thesis Title: Character Varieties of Knots and Links with Symmetries

Spring 2017

  • Student: Vehpi Yildirim
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Gene Knockout Compensation in Pancreatic Beta-Cells
  • Student: Corey Harris
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Effective Methods in Intersection Theory and Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry
  • Student: Yao Dai
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
    Thesis Title: Game-Theoretic Models of Animal Behavior Observed in Some Recent Experiments
  • Student: Jian Li
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: Mathematical Modeling of Biofilms and Implementations
  • Student: Liang-Hsuan Tai
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan, Anuj Srivastava
    Thesis Title: Trend and Variable-Phase Seasonality Estimation from Functional Data
  • Student: David Mandel
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Random Sobol - Sensitivity Analysis and Model Robustness
  • Student: Mehmet Emin Aktas
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Eriko Hironaka
    Thesis Title: Topology of N-gonal Curves
  • Student: Daniel Weingard
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Scroll Waves: And How They Interact with Non-Reactive Knots, Tori, And Spheres
  • Student: Yuanda Chen
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Modeling Limit Order Book Dynamics using Hawkes Processes
  • Student: John Max Wyse
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
    Thesis Title: The Impact of Competition on Temporal Musth Strategies: A Game-Theoretic Approach
  • Student: 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

Fall 2016

  • Student: 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
  • Student: Chun-Yuan Chiu
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Modeling Credit Risk in the Default Threshold Framework
  • Student: Robert Brantley Billet
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Eriko Hironaka
    Thesis Title: Flow Equivalence Classes of Pseudo-Anosov Surface Homeomorphisms

Summer 2016

  • Student: 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
  • Student: Dane Mayhook
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Philip Bowers
    Thesis Title: Conformal Tilings and Type

Spring 2016

  • Student: Mao Li
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
    Thesis Title: Quantifying Phenotypic Variation through Local Persistent Homology and Imaging
  • Student: David Allen Ekrut
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nicholas Cogan
    Thesis Title: Symmetry Solutions of the Multiphase Model with Biological Applications
  • Student: Angela Michelle Jarrett
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan, M. Yousuff Hussaini
    Thesis Title: Investigating Persistent Infections Using Mathematical Modeling and Analyses
  • Student: Diego Hernan Diaz Martinez
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
    Thesis Title: Multiscale Summaries of Probability Measures with Applications to Plant and Microbiome Data
  • Student: 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
  • Student: Justin Thomas Cole
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Ziad Musslimani
    Thesis Title: Nonlinear Schrodinger-type Systems: Complex Lattices and Non-paraxiality
  • Student: Yuanda Chen
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Modeling Limit Order Book Dynamics using Hawkes Processes

Fall 2015

  • Student: Sarah Kim
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Monica Hurdal
    Thesis Title: A Mathematical Model of Cerebral Cortical Folding Development Based on a Biomechanical Hypothesis
  • Student: Celestine Woodruff
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Xiaoming Wang
    Thesis Title: Efficient and Accurate Numerical Schemes for Long Time Statistical Properties of the Infinite Prandtl Number Model for Convection

Summer 2015

  • Student: Guifang Zhou
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan, Paul van Dooren
    Thesis Title: Rank-Constrained Optimization: A Riemannian Manifold Approach
  • Student: Dong Sun
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Xiaoming Wang, Max Gunzberger
    Thesis Title: High Order Long-Time Accurate Methods for Stokes-Darcy System and Uncertainty Quantification of Contaminant Transport
  • Student: Dawna Jones
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval, Paul Beaumont
    Thesis Title: Asset Pricing Equilibria for Heterogeneous, Limited-Information Agents
  • Student: Patrick Fletcher
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram, Joel Tabak-Sznajder
    Thesis Title: Theoretical, Computational, and Experimental Topics in Anterior Pituitary Cell Signaling
  • Student: Wei Yuan
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten, Kyounghee Kim
    Thesis Title: Estimating Sensitivities of Exotic Options Using Monte Carlo Methods
  • Student: William Adams
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Lagrangian Specialization Via Log Resolution and Schwartz MacPherson Chern Classes
  • Student: Daozhi Han
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Xiaoming Wang
    Thesis Title: Diffuse Interface Method for Two-Phase Incompressible Flows
  • Student: Linlin Xu
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: GPU Computing in Financial Engineering

Spring 2015

  • Student: Russell Waller
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Sergio Fenley
    Thesis Title: Periodic Pieces of Pseudo-Anosov Flows in Graph Manifolds
  • Student: Qiuping Xu
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
    Thesis Title: Keeping Pace with the Times: Quantifying Variation of Newly Emerging Biological Shape Data
  • Student: John Emanuello
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
    Thesis Title: Analysis of Functions of Split-Complex, Multicomplex and Split-Quaternionic Variables and Their Associated Conformal Geometry
  • Student: Tugba Karabiyik
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
    Thesis Title: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Competition Over Indivisible Resources
  • Student: Anthony Wills
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Brian Ewald, Xiaoming Wang
    Thesis Title: Analysis of Regularity and Convergence of Discretization Methods for the Stochastic Heat Equation Forced by Space-Time White Noise
  • Student: Xin Li
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mika Seppala, Mark Van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Myrbergs Numerical Uniformization

Fall 2014

  • Student: Sevgi Sengul
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram, Tabak-Sznajder
    Thesis Title: Unveiling Mechanisms for Electrical Activity Patterns in Neurons and Pituitary Cells Using Mathematical Modeling and Analysis

Summer 2014

  • Student: Ming Zhu
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Warren Nichols
    Thesis Title: Radically Elementary Stochastic Summation with Applications to Finance
  • Student: Matthew Donahue
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: Modeling the Effect of Biofilm
  • Student: Vijay Kunwar
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Hypergeometric Solutions of Linear Differential Equations with Rational Function Coefficients
  • Student: Matt Jemison
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
    Thesis Title: An asymptotically preserving method for multiphase flow
  • Student: Yingyuen Shen
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
    Thesis Title: Mathematical Models of Dengue Fever and Measures to Control It
  • Student: Nguyet Nguyen
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Probabilistic methods in estimation and prediction of financial models
  • Student: Ivan Dungan
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Ettore Aldrovandi
    Thesis Title: n-butterflies: modeling weak morphisms of strict n-groups

Spring 2014

  • Student: Ahmed Derar Islim
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: David Kopriva
    Thesis Title: Pricing and Hedging Derivatives with Sharp Profiles using tuned High Resolution Finite Difference Schemes
  • Student: Andrew Winters
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: David Kopriva
    Thesis Title: Discontinuous Galerkin spectral element approximations for the reflection and transmission of waves from moving material interfaces
  • Student: Wen Huang
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan, P.A. Absii
    Thesis Title: Optimization Algorithms on Riemannian Manifolds with Applications

Fall 2013

  • Student: Pierre Garreau
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Jump Dependence and Default Risk: a new class of structural models of default risk
  • Student: Yanyan He
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Yousuff Hussaini
    Thesis Title: Uncertainty quantification and data fusion based on Dempster-Shafer theory
  • Student: Yaning Liu
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten, Yousuff Hussaini
    Thesis Title: Non-intrusive methods for probabilistic uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis in nonlinear stochastic phenomena
  • Student: Candace Ohm
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mike Mesterton-Gibbons
    Thesis Title: The Evolution of Deception in Signaling Systems
  • Student: Mark Whidden
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Nick Cogan
    Thesis Title: Numerical Methods for Multiphase Systems and Applications to Biology
  • Student: Yuan Zhang
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Modeling high-frequency order book dynamics with support vector machines

Summer 2013

  • Student: Ibukun Amusan
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten, Brian Ewald
    Thesis Title: Parameter estimation for a stochastic volatility model with coupled additive and multiplicative noise
  • Student: Arij Daou
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: From Songs to Ion Channels and Mathematical Modeling
  • Student: Jian Geng
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Michael Navon, Bettye Anne Case
    Thesis Title: Calibration of local volatility models and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) reduced order modeling for stochastic volatility models
  • Student: Yuanting Lu
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Jack Quine
    Thesis Title: Discrete Frenet frame with application to structural biology and kinematics
  • Student: Wanwan Huang
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten, Brian Ewald
    Thesis Title: Stochastic Modeling of Financial Derivatives
  • Student: Xia Liao
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Chern classes of sheaves of logarithmic vector fields for free divisors
  • Student: Dongxu Wang
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Wolfgang Heil
    Thesis Title: 3-manifolds of S1-category 3

Spring 2013

  • Student: Jonathan Bates
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
    Thesis Title: Spectral methods for morphometry
  • Student: Motoi Namihira
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: David Kopriva
    Thesis Title: Probabilistic uncertainty analysis and its applications in option models
  • Student: Gregory Toole
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Monica Hurdal
    Thesis Title: Modeling cortical folding patterns of the brain using a growth domain
  • Student: Linda (Crystal) Wells
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Eric Klassen
    Thesis Title: Shape analysis of curves in higher dimensions

Fall 2012

  • Student: Tingting Fang
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Solving linear differential equations in terms of hypergeometric functions by 2-descent
  • Student: Dan Li
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Matilde Marcolli, Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Periods and motives: applications in mathematical physics
  • Student: Daniel Robinson
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Eric Klassen
    Thesis Title: Functional analysis and partial matching in the square root velocity framework
  • Student: Jinhua Yan
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: David Kopriva
    Thesis Title: Partial differential equation methods to price options in the energy market

Summer 2012

  • Student: Joseph A. Boor
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Patricia Born, Bettye Anne Case, Qihe Tang
    Thesis Title: An analytic approach to estimating the required surplus, benchmark profit, and optimum reinsurance retention for an insurance enterprise
  • Student: James A. Fullwood
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: On elliptic fibrations and F-theory compactifications of string vacua
  • Student: Randall J. Heaton
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Amod Agashe, Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Algorithms for computing congruences between modular forms
  • Student: Wondimu W. Teka
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Nonlinear dynamics underlying fast bursting in pituitary cells
  • Student: Guanghong Wang
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
    Thesis Title: Dirac operators, multipliers, and Hp spaces of monogenic functions

Spring 2012

  • Student: Johnathon K. Armstrong
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Eriko Hironaka, Kathleen Petersen
    Thesis Title: Principal elements of mixed-sign Coxeter systems
  • Student: Yu Fan
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
    Thesis Title: Learning shape metrics for inferring the nature of allometry and shape classification
  • Student: He Huang
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Modeling order book dynamics using queues and point processes
  • Student: Tianyu Liang
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Xiaoming Wang, Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Alternative models for stochastic volatility corrections for equity and interest rate derivatives
  • Student: Yang Liu
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Risk forecasting and portfolio optimization with GARCH, skewed-t distribution, and multiple timescales
  • Student: Quan Yuan
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Finding all Bessel-type solutions for linear differential equations with rational function coefficients

Fall 2011

  • Student: Judson P. Stryker
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes of graph hypersurfaces and Schubert varieties
  • Student: Aaron D. Valdivia
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Eriko Hironaka
    Thesis Title: Pseudo-Anosov sequences with asymptotically small dilatation
  • Student: Margaret A. Watts
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Slow variable dominance in pancreatic beta-cell models

Summer 2011

  • Student: Saikat Biswas
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Amod Agashe
    Thesis Title: Constructing non-trivial elements of the Shafarevich-Tate group of an abelian variety
  • Student: Yuanying Guan
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval, Paul Beaumont
    Thesis Title: Asset market dynamics of heterogeneous agents models with learning
  • Student: Qin Li
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Gordon Erlebacher (DSC, FSU), Xiaoming Wang
    Thesis Title: Sparse approximation and its applications

Spring 2011

  • Student: Cesar Acosta-Minoli
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: David Kopriva
    Dissertation Title: Discontinuous Galerkin spectral element approximations on moving meshes for wave scattering from reflective moving boundaries
  • Student: Young J. Cha
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Dissertation Title: Closed form solutions of linear difference equations
  • Student: Xiao Chen
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: I. Michael Navon (DSC, FSU), Mark Sussman
    Dissertation Title: 4-D var data assimilation and POD model reduction methodologies applied to geophysical fluid dynamics models
  • Student: Austen C. Duffy
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman, Yousuff Hussaini
    Dissertation Title: Massively parallel algorithms for CFD simulation and optimization on heterogeneous many-core architectures
  • Student: Philip Paul Lepoudre
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Christopher K.W. Tam
    Dissertation Title: Computational aeroacoustics cascade model of fan noise
  • Student: Jamil W. Mortada
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Sergio Fenley, Eriko Hironaka
    Dissertation Title: Arim and Dehn twist subgroups of the mapping class group
  • Student: Chunhong Qi
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Kyle Gallivan, Pierre-Antoine Absil
    Dissertation Title: Numerical optimization methods on Riemannian manifolds
  • Student: Matthew C. Willyard
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: David Kopriva
    Dissertation Title: Adaptive spectral element methods to price American options

Fall 2010

  • Student: Yaohong Wang
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
    Dissertation Title: Numerical methods for two-phase jet flow

Summer 2010

  • Student: Dervis Bayazit
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
    Thesis Title: Sensitivity analysis of options under Levy processes via Malliavin calculus
  • Student: Xinyang Liu
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Washington Mio
    Thesis Title: Shape spaces, metrics, and their applications to brain anatomy
  • Student: Ji Shen
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Gordon Erlebacher (DSC, FSU), Xiaoming Wang
    Thesis Title: No-reference natural image/video quality assessment of noisy, blurry, or compressed images/videos based on hybrid curvelet, wavelet, and cosine transforms
  • Student: Svetlana V. Simakhina
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
    Thesis Title: Level set and conservative level set methods on dynamic quadrilateral grids
  • Student: Ahmet E. Tatar
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Ettore Aldrovandi
    Thesis Title: Picard 2-stacks and length 3 complexes of abelian sheaves

Spring 2010

  • Student: Yong Jung
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Michael Mascagni (CS, FSU), Philip Bowers
    Thesis Title: A computational study of ion conductance in the KscA K+ channel using a Nerst-Planck model with explicit resident ions
  • Student: Giles S. Levy
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Solutions of second order recurrence relations

Fall 2009

  • Student: Juan B Gutierrez
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Monica Hurdal
    Thesis Title: Mathematical analysis of the use of Trojan sex chromosomes as means of eradication of invasive species
  • Student: Edwin N. Jimenez
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Yousuff Hussaini
    Thesis Title: Uncertainty quantification of nonlinear stochastic phenomena
  • Student: Deborah Striegel
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Monica Hurdal
    Thesis Title: Modeling the folding pattern of the cerebral cortex

Summer 2009

  • Student: Ahmet Goncu
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods in pricing financial derivatives
  • Student: Fei Hua
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Xiaoming Wang, Max Gunsburger (DSC, FSU)
    Thesis Title: Modeling, analysis and simulation of the Stokes-Darcy system with Beavers-Joseph interface condition
  • Student: Rana Parshad
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Xiaoming Wang
    Thesis Title: Asymptotic behavior of convection in porous media

Fall 2008

  • Student: Yuri Alex Lebedev
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mika Seppala
    Thesis Title: Open math library for computing on Riemann surfaces
  • Student: Haomin Lin
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Janet Peterson (DSC, FSU), Max Gunzburger (DSC, FSU)
    Thesis Title: An optimal control problem for a time dependent Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity
  • Student: Konstantinos Mavroudis
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
    Thesis Title: Constant proportions portfolio strategies in an evolutionary context under a dividend factor model
  • Student: Emmanuel R. Salta
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten
    Thesis Title: Variance reduction techniques in pricing financial derivatives
  • Student: Milena Tzigantcheva
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
    Thesis Title: Stochastic volatility extensions of the swap market model

Summer 2008

  • Student: Manan Y Shah
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Giray Okten, Yevgeny Goncharov
    Thesis Title: Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo methods and the computation of endogenous mortgage rates
  • Student: Eunjoo Yoo
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
    Thesis Title: Variance gamma pricing of American futures options

Spring 2008

  • Student: Hoa V. Nguyen
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Max Gunzburger (DSC, FSU)
    Thesis Title: Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations for mesh generation: from uniform to anisotropic adaptive triangulations
  • Student: Andrew P. Novocin
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark van Hoeij
    Thesis Title: Factoring univariate polynomials over the rationals
  • Student: Wuming Zhu
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: David Kopriva
    Thesis Title: A spectral element method to price European options

Fall 2007

  • Student: Wan-Kan Chan
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Max Gunzburger (DSC, FSU)
    Thesis Title: Analysis and approximation of a two-banded Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity
  • Student: Juan F Moreno
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Impulse control problems under non-constant volatility
  • Student: Yuki Saka
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Max Gunzburger (DSC, FSU)
    Thesis Title: Analysis of two PDE models in fluid mechanics: nonlinear spectral eddy-viscosity model of turbulence and infinite Prandtl-number model of mantle convection

Summer 2007

  • Student: Zheng Chen
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Max Gunzburger (DSC, FSU)
    Thesis Title: Anova for parameter dependent nonlinear PDEs and numerical methods for the stochastic Stokes equations
  • Student: Andrew Culham
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval, Paul Beaumont (Economics, FSU)
    Thesis Title: Asset pricing in a Lucas framework with boundary rational, heterogeneous agents
  • Student: Lee W. Singleton
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Monica Hurdal
    Thesis Title: Geometric and computational generation, correction, and simplification of cortical surfaces of the human brain

Spring 2007

  • Student: Christian Laing
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: De Witt Sumners
    Thesis Title: Biomedical applications of shape descriptors
  • Student: Jennifer K Mann
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: De Witt Sumners, E. Lynn Zechiedrich
    Thesis Title: DNA knotting: Occurrences, consequences, and resolution
  • Student: Natalia Toporikova
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: Richard Bertram
    Thesis Title: Regulation of rhythmic prolactin secretion: combined mathematical and experimental study
  • Student: Clayton Webster
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Max Gunzburger (DSC, FSU)
    Thesis Title: Sparse collocation techniques for the numerical solution of stochastic partial differential equations
  • Student: Jianke Zhang
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Numerical methods for portfolio risk estimation

Fall 2006

  • Student: Srisairam Achuthan
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: J.R. Quine
    Thesis Title: Analysis of orientational restraints in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance with applications to protein structure determination
  • Student: Mack L Galloway
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
    Thesis Title: Option pricing with selfsimilar additive processes
  • Student: Dimitre G. Tzigantchev
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Predegree polynomials of plane configurations in projective space

Summer 2006

  • Student: William E. Wood
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Philip Bowers
    Thesis Title: Combinatorial type problems for triangulation graphs

Spring 2006

  • Student: Santha Ram Akella
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: I. Michael Navon (DSC, FSU)
    Thesis Title: Deterministic and stochastic aspects of data assimilation

Fall 2005

  • Student: Ana M. Croicu
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Yousuff Hussaini
    Thesis Title: Single and multiple-objective stochastic programming with applications to aerodynamics
  • Student: Wenbo Hu
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Alec Kercheval
    Thesis Title: Calibration of multivariate generalized hyperbolic distributions using the EM algorithm, with applications in risk management, portfolio optimization, and portfolio credit risk

Summer 2005

  • Student: Zhenlu Cui
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Qi Wang
    Thesis Title: Rheology and mesoscale morphology of flows of cholesteric and nematic liquid crystal polymers
  • Student: Anand Ganesan
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Christopher K.W. Tam
    Thesis Title: TWO PART THESIS: 1. A modified K-undefined control sequence E turbulence model of high speed jets at elevated temperatures 2. Modeling and a computational study of spliced acoustic liners
  • Student: Samet Y Kadioglu
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: Mark Sussman
    Thesis Title: All speed multi-phase flow solvers
  • Student: Parthasar Srinivasan
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: J.R. Quine
    Thesis Title: Applications of representation theory and higher-order perturbation theory in NMR

Spring 2005

  • Student: Jacqueline R. Goforth
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Sam Huckaba
    Thesis Title: Description and analysis of a two-variable version of the NTRU crypto system
  • Student: Marc R. Lengfield
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Dan Oberlin
    Thesis Title: Envelopes, duality, and multipliers for certain non-locally convex Hardy-Lorentz spaces

Summer 2004

  • Student: Caroline M. Boulis
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Wolfgang Heil
    Thesis Title: Finite Abelian group actions on orientable circle bundles over surfaces

Spring 2004

  • Student: Marc R. Lengfield
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Dan Oberlin
    Thesis Title: Envelopes, duality, and multipliers for certain non-locally convex Hardy-Lorentz spaces
  • Student: Benoit Montin
    Major: Financial Math
    PhD Advisor: Craig Nolder
    Thesis Title: A stock market agent-based model using evolutionary game theory and quantum mechanical formalism

Fall 2003

  • Student: Deborah Jones
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Paolo Aluffi
    Thesis Title: Intersection numbers of divisors in graph varieties

Summer 2003

  • Student: Roger V Vogeler
    Major: Pure Math
    PhD Advisor: Philip Bowers
    Thesis Title: On the geometry of Hurwitz surfaces

Spring 2003

  • Student: Irma Cruz-White
    Major: Biomath
    PhD Advisor: De Witt Sumners
    Thesis Title: Topology of spiral waves in excitable media

Summer 2002

  • Student: Cristian Homescu
    Major: Applied & Computational Math
    PhD Advisor: I. Michael Navon (DSC, FSU)
    Thesis Title: Optimal control of continuous and discontinuous flow