Student Thesis Adviser List

The table below lists current students who have advanced to candidacy in either M.S. or Ph.D. degree programs, their official thesis adviser, and their research focus.

Faculty Adviser	Grad Student	Degree Sought	Student Research Focus
Bai, Zhaojun - Math
	Li, Yung-Ta	Applied, Ph.D.	Parametric model order reduction
Benham, Craig - Math
	Strawbridge, Eva	Applied, Ph.D.	Mathematical biology focusing on dynamically modeling DNA structure
	Sershen, Cheryl	Applied, Ph.D.	Computational Genomics/Bioinformatics
Cheer, Angela - Math
	Wiegers, Brandy	Applied, Ph.D.	Computational Mathematical Biology, with a focus on plant physiology
De Loera, Jesus - Math
	Haws, David	Math, Ph.D.	Computational, discrete, and algebraic geometry, optimization, polyhedra and matroids.
Fannjiang, Albert - Math
	Yan, Pengchong (Mike)	Applied, Ph.D.	PDEs and Probability, applications in turbulent media
Fuchs, Dmitry - Math
	Rutherford, Daniel	Math, Ph.D.	Legendrian knots
	Wilmarth, Constance	Math, Ph.D.
Hass, Joel - Math
	Nakamura, Kei	Math, Ph.D.	Geometry and topology of low dimensional manifolds
Hastings, Alan - None listed
	Wright, Roy	Applied, Ph.D.	Mathematical modeling in ecology; application of singular perturbation theory to ecological models.
	Goldwyn, Eli	Applied, Ph.D.	Population Dynamics
Kapovich, Michael - Math
	Lee, Jaejeong	Math, Ph.D.	Metric spaces of non-positive curvature. Geometric group theory.
	Gouvea, Ezra	Math, Ph.D.
	Lai, Yvonne	Math, Ph.D.	Representation varieties of hyperbolic manifolds
	Baba, Shinpei	Math, Ph.D.	Complex Projective Structures
Kuperberg, Greg - Math
	Thomas, Rohit	Math, Ph.D.	Categorification and quantum topology
Lewis, Timothy - Math
	Schwemmer, Michael	Applied, Ph.D.	mathematical neuroscience with an emphasis on coupled oscillators
	Zhang, Vivian (Jie)	Applied, Ph.D.	Mathematical biology with an emphasis on physiology and neuroscience
Mogilner, Alex - Math
	Miller, Adam	Applied, Ph.D.	Theoretical ecology. Mechanisms of species coexistence. Competitive coexistence under spatio-temporal disturbance regimes
Mulase, Motohico - Math
	Hodge, Andrew	Math, Ph.D.	Intersection Theory on the Moduli Space of Curves
Nachtergaele, Bruno - Math
	Michalakis, Spyridon	Applied, Ph.D.	Modeling wires for quantum computers: Quantum entanglement on 1-D spin chains.
	Puri, Ram	Math, Ph.D.	Quantum Markov chains
Rocke, David - Div of Biostat
	Li, Dan	Applied, Ph.D.	Analysis for two-dimensional gel electrophoresis images
Saito, Naoki - Math
	Marchand, Bradley	Applied, Ph.D.	Blaschke products and Local Discriminant Basis with applications to signal analysis and classification
Schultens, Jennifer - Math
	Stevens, Alice	Math, Ph.D.	3-manifolds and knot theory
Strohmer, Thomas - Math
	Farrell, Brendan	Applied, Ph.D.	Pseudodifferential operators and wireless communication
	Hunter, Blake	Applied, Ph.D.	Harmonic Analysis
Thompson, Abigail - Math
	Williams, Michael	Math, Ph.D.	3-dimensional topology and knot theory
	Moore, Marion	Math, Ph.D.	Low dimensional topology
	Manjarrez-Gutierrez, Fabiola	Math, Ph.D.	Low dimensional topology
Vazirani, Monica - Math
	Berg, Chris	Math, Ph.D.	Representation Theory of the Symmetric Groups and Hecke Algebras
Vershynin, Roman - Math
	Needell, Deanna	Math, Ph.D.	Probability and Functional Analysis with applications to Sparse Reconstruction
Waldron, Andrew - Math
	Hallowell, Karl	Math, Ph.D.	Algebraic methods in Constricting Quantum Field Actions in Constant Curvature Spaces
Wets, Roger - Math
	Tian, Shaowu	Applied, Ph.D.	Stochastic Optimization and Programming, with application to economic models
	Shao, Chengwu	Applied, M.S.