Recent PhD Graduates
Ritika Nair
Graduation date: Summer 2024
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: On Properties of Algebraic Structures Related to Simplicial Complexes
Thesis advisor: Hai Long Dao
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, Oklahoma State University
Website: Link
Trevor Arrigoni
Graduation date: Summer 2024
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: F-invariants of Certain Power Series
Thesis advisor: Daniel Hernández
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
Website: Link
John Portin
Graduation date: Spring 2024
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Homological and Combinatorial Properties of m-Primary Monomial Ideals
Thesis advisor: Hai Long Dao
First job:
Website: Link
Dania Morales
Graduation date: Spring 2024
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Matroid Base Polytopes of Lattice Path Matroids & Ehrhart Theory
Thesis advisor: Jeremy Martin
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor at Willamette University
Abraham Pascoe
Graduation date: Spring 2024
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Local Cohomology of Subspace Arrangements and Simplicial Homology
Thesis advisor: Emily Witt
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, William Jewell College
Website: Link
Ruixuan "Ray" Zhang
Graduation date: Spring 2024
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Conditional Limit Theorems for the KPZ Fixed Point with a Large Height
Thesis advisor: Zhipeng Liu
First job: Postdoctoral Research Associate, C.R. Wiley Instructorship, University of Utah
Website: Link
Majed Eida M Sofiani
Graduation date: Spring 2024
Research area: Partial Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
Thesis title: On the Full Ericksen-Leslie Model of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Thesis advisor: Geng Chen, Weishi Liu
First job: Postdoctoral Research Associate, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Website: Link
Souvik Dey
Graduation date: Summer 2023
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Some Categorical Aspects of Commutative Algebra
Thesis advisor: Hailong Dao
First job: Research Scientist, Charles University
Website: Link
Jinjin Zhang
Graduation date: Spring 2023
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: BDDC Algorithms for the PDEs with HDG Discretizations
Thesis advisor: Xuemin Tu
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Website: Link
Ryan Frier
Graduation date: Spring 2023
Research area: Harmonic/Fourier Analysis
Thesis title: Extremizers to the Strichartz Inequality in Dimension 1
Thesis advisor: Shuanglin Shao
First job: Assistant Teaching Professor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Website: Link
Mehmet Yenisey
Graduation date: Summer 2022
Research area: Probability Theory
Thesis title: The Metric Geometry Nature of Wasserstein Spaces of Probability Measures: On the Point of View of Submetry Projections
Thesis advisor: Jin Feng
First job: Visiting Lecturer, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Yanru Su
Graduation date: Summer 2022
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Domain Decomposition Methods for Convection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations with Finite Volume Discretizations
Thesis advisor: Xuemin Tu
First job: Data Scientist, CDW Corporation
Website: Link
Bhargobjyoti "Bhargob" Saikia
Graduation date: Summer 2022
Research area: Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: Euler Approximation for Stochastic Volterra Equations and a CentralLimit Theorem to a System of Heat Equations
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Data Scientist, John Hancock Financial, Boston, MA
Website: Link
Abba Ramadan
Graduation date: Spring 2022
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Existence and Stability of Solitary Waves for NLS with Defects
Thesis advisor: Atanas Stefanov and Dionyssios Mantzavinos
First job: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Website: Link
Sefika Kuzgun
Graduation date: Spring 2022
Research area: Probability and Analysis
Thesis title: Applications of Malliavin-Stein Method: Spatial Averages of Solution to Stochastic Heat Equation and Breuer-Major Theorem
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Website: Link
Dylan C. Beck
Graduation date: Spring 2022
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Combinatorial and Homological Aspects of Monomial Algebras and Numerical Semigroups
Thesis advisor: Hailong Dao
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Baker University
Website: Link
Kevin Marshall
Graduation date: Spring 2022
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: A Hopf Monoid On Set Species
Thesis advisor: Jeremy Martin
First job: Software Developer, Epic, Madison, WI
Website: Link
Cassidy Krause
Graduation date: Spring 2022
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: A Metric Tensor Approach to Data Assimilation on Adaptive Moving Meshes
Thesis advisor: Erik Van Vleck
First job: Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science, Millikin University
Website:Link
Yi Yan
Graduation date: Fall 2021
Research area: Functional Analysis, Operator Algebra
Thesis title: Operator Theory on Univariate Analytic Function Spaces
Thesis advisor: Tyrone Duncan and Albert Sheu
First job:
Bibekananda Mishra
Graduation date: Fall 2021
Research area: Algebraic Obstruction Theory
Thesis title: Obstruction Theory in Algebra and Topology: A Homotopy Perspective
Thesis advisor: Satya Mandal
First job: Data Scientist, Credit Risk Management Strategy, T-Mobile, Overland Park, KS
Website:Link
Harrison Gaebler
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Functional Analysis
Thesis title: Optimal L2 Bounds for Certain Hamiltonian Linearizations and New Generalizations of Asymptotic Structures in Certain Banach Spaces
Thesis advisor: Milena Stanislavova
First job: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Oklahoma
Website: Link
Debaditya Raychaudhury
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Algebraic Geometry
Thesis title: Projective Normality and Normal Presentation for Adjoint Linear Series on Minimal Varieties
Thesis advisor: Purnaprajna Bangere
First job: Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto
Website: Link
Jayan Mukherjee
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Algebraic Geometry
Thesis title: Deformations of Finite Morphisms and Applications to Moduli of Irregular Surfaces of General Type with K2 = 4pg - 8
Thesis advisor: Purnaprajna Bangere
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, ICERM/Brown University
Prashanth Sridhar
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Finding Maximal Cohen-Macaulay and Reflexive Modules
Thesis advisor: Daniel Katz
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, Charles University at Prague
Promit Kundu
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Algebraic Geometry
Thesis title: Topics on Coherent Sheaves on DM Stacks
Thesis advisor: Yunfeng Jiang
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences-Shanghai
Website: Link
Amanda Wilkens
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Ergodic Theory and Probability
Thesis title: Monotone Factor Maps and Finitary Isomorphisms
Thesis advisor: David Nualart and Terry Soo
First job: Postdoctoral Instructor, University of Texas, Austin
Website: Link
Wesley Perkins
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Modulation and Subharmonic Dynamics of Periodic Waves
Thesis advisor: Mat Johnson
First job: C.C. Hsiung Visiting Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
Website: Link
Raul Esteban Bolanos Guerrero
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Probability and Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: Limit Distributions for Skorohod Integrals and Spatial Averages of the Stochastic Wave and Heat Equation
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica
Website:Link
Bradley Isom
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Growth Bounds and Nonlinear Smoothing for the Periodic Benjamin-Ono and Derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Thesis advisor: Atanas Stefanov and Dionyssios Mantzavinos
First job: Credit Risk Analyst, T-Mobile, Overland Park, Kansas
Website:Link
Yiying Cheng
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Mathematical Modeling, Estimation, and Application in Finance
Thesis advisor: Xuemin Tu and Yaozhong Hu
First job: Quantitative Analyst, FHLBank Topeka, Kansas
Website: Link
Panqiu Xia
Graduation date: Summer 2020
Research area: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Branching Particle Systems, Stochastic Partial Differentiable Equations and Nonlinear Rough Path Analysis
Thesis advisor: David Nualart and Yaozhong Hu
First job: Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Website: Link
Seyed Hamidreza Mofidi
Graduation date: Summer 2020
Research area: Nonlinear Dynamical Systems/Mathematical Biology
Thesis title: Electrodiffusion in Ionic Channels via PNP Models
Thesis advisor: Weishi Liu
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Website: Link
Justin Lyle
Graduation date: Spring 2020
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Homological Properties of Structures in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Combinatorics
Thesis advisor: Hailong Dao
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Website: Link
Yanhao Cui
Graduation date: Fall 2019
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: A General Stochastic Volatility Model on VIX Options
Thesis advisor: Terry Soo / Yaozhong Hu
First job: Financial Analyst, Security Benefit, Topeka, KS
Nicholas Ma
Graduation date: Fall 2019
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Hermite Variations of the Fractional Brownian Motion and the Stochstic Heat Equation Driven by a Rough Time Fractional Gaussian Noise
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Data Scientist, Cerner Corporation
Website: Link
Satbir Malhi
Graduation date: Summer 2019
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Optimal Energy Decay for the Damped Klein-Gordon Equation
Thesis advisor: Milena Stanislavova
First job: Applied Scientist, Applied Materials, San Francisco
Website: Link
Fazel Hadadifard
Graduation date: Summer 2019
Research area: Partial Differential Equations/Long-time Behavior
Thesis title: Sharp time Asymptotics for the Quasi-Geostrophic Equation, the Boussinesq System and Near Plane Waves of Reaction-Diffusion Models
Thesis advisor: Atanas Stefanov
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Drexel University
Website:Link
Ken Duna
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Matroid Independence Polytopes and Their Ehrhart Theory
Thesis advisor: Jeremy Martin
First job: Lecturer, University of Kansas
Website: Link
Connor Smith
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Partial Differential Equations/Dynamical Systems
Thesis title: Dynamics of Essentially Unstable Nonlinear Waves
Thesis advisor: Mat Johnson
First job: Data Scientist, Lowe's
Website: Link
Yufei Yu
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: An Adaptive Moving Mesh Finite Element Method and Its Applications to Mathematical Models from Physical Sciences and Image Processing
Thesis advisor: Weizhang Huang
First job: Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo
Website:Link
Iurii "Yura" Posukhovskyi
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: On the Existence and Stability of Normalized Ground States of the Kawahara, Fourth Order NLS and the Ostrovsky Equations
Thesis advisor: Atanas Stefanov
First job: Senior Data Analyst, Home Depot
Website: Link
Avary Kolasinski
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing
Thesis title: Surface and Bulk Moving Mesh Methods Based on Equidistribution and Alignment
Thesis advisor: Weizhang Huang
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Website: Link
Joseph Doolittle
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology of Polytopal Complexes
Thesis advisor: Margaret Bayer
First job: Research Assistant, Freie Universität Berlin
Website:Link
Brent Holmes
Graduation date: Fall 2018
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Serre's Condition and Depth of Stanley-Reisner Rings
Thesis advisor: Hailong Dao
First job: Data Scientist, YRC Freight
Website: Link
Hee Sun Kim
Graduation date: Fall 2018
Research area: Statistics
Thesis title: Statistical Estimation and University Codes for Context Set Models
Thesis advisor: Zsolt Talata
First job: Data Scientist, SelectQuote Insurance Services
Website:Link
Wen Feng
Graduation date: Summer 2018
Research area: Dynamical Systems
Thesis title: Analytical Studies of Standing Waves in Three NLS Models
Thesis advisor: Milena Stanislavova
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Website: Link
Bennet Goeckner
Graduation date: Summer 2018
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Decompositions of Simplicial Complexes
Thesis advisor: Jeremy Martin
First job: Postdoctoral Scholar/Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Website: Link
Wenjun Ma
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Particle Filter for Hidden Non-Markovian Models and Block Sampling
Thesis advisor: Xuemin Tu
First job: Data Science Teaching Assistant/Associate Instructor, NYC Data Science Academy
Website: Link
Kyle Claassen
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
Thesis title: Stability of Periodic Waves in Nonlocal Dispersive Equations
Thesis advisor: Mathew Johnson
First job: Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Website: Link
Arturo Jaramillo Gil
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Probability and Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: Limit Distributions for Functionals of Gaussian Processes
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Postdoctorate, University of Luxembourg/University of Singapore
Website: Link
Peter Lewis
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Probability and Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: Regularity of Stochastic Burgers'-Type Equations
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Data Scientist, Commerce Bank, Kansas City, MO
Website:Link
Hongjuan Zhou
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Parameter Estimation for Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion
Thesis advisor: David Nualart / Yaozhong Hu
First job: Professor of Practice, Arizona State University
Website: Link
Bin Wang
Graduation date: Fall 2017
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints Algorithms for Incompressible Stokes Equations with Nonconforming Finite Element Discretizations
Thesis advisor: Xuemin Tu
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Hood College
Website: None
Wei-Da Chen
Graduation date: Fall 2017
Research area: Noncommutative Geometry
Thesis title: Riemannian Geometry on Some Noncommutative Spaces
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: ACT/SAT & CBSE XII/X-Mathematics Test-Question Creator, Aha Learn-to-Earn, EdTech Arm of WIP Venture DAO
Website: Link
Cuong Ngo
Graduation date: Spring 2017
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Moving Mesh Methods for Numerical Solution of Porous Medium Equations
Thesis advisor: Weizhang Huang
First job: Assistant Professor, Bethany College
Website: Link
Biswajit Rajaguru
Graduation date: Spring 2017
Research area: Algebraic Geometry
Thesis title: Projective Normality for Some Families of Surfaces of General Type
Thesis advisor: Bangere Purnaprajna
First job:
Su Chen Kang
Graduation date: Spring 2017
Research area: Operator Algebras
Thesis title: Quantum Families of Maps
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: Lead Project Coordinator, Kumon UK
Website: Link
Andrew Steyer
Graduation date: Summer 2016
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: A Lyapunov Exponent Based Stability Theory for Ordinary Differential Equation Initial Value Problem Solvers
Thesis advisor: Erik Van Vleck
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, Sandia National Lab
Website: Link
Grant Serio
Graduation date: Summer 2016
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Multiplicities in Commutative Algebra
Thesis advisor: Dan Katz
First job: Lecturer, University of Kansas
Leonard Huang
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Generalized Fixed-Point Algebras for Twisted C*-Dynamical Systems
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: Burnett C. Meyer Postdoctoral Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder
Website: Link
Chen Su
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Probability and Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Some Studies on Parameter Estimations
Thesis advisors: Yaozhong Hu and Xuemin Tu
First job: Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities, Charlotte, NC
Website: Link
Yanghui Liu
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Numerical Solutions of Rough Differential Equations and Stochastic Differential Equations
Thesis advisor: David Nualart and Yaozhong Hu
First job: Golomb Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Purdue University
Website: Link
John Reynolds
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: Convergence Properties of Hausdorff Closed Spaces
Thesis advisor: Jack Porter
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Hendrix College, Conway, AR
Website: Link
Tony Se
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Depth and Associated Primes of Modules Over a Ring
Thesis advisor: Hailong Dao
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Website: Link
Shalan Alkarni
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Three Dimensional Jacobian Derivations and Divisor Class Groups
Thesis advisor: Jeff Lang
First job: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Website: Link