Below is the list of students who have advanced to candidacy. For the full list of potential advisors, please visit Math Department Faculty or GGAM Faculty.
| Faculty Adviser | Grad Student | Degree Sought | Student Research Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Babson - Math | |||
| Jake Garcia | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Elysee Wilson-Egolf | Math, Ph.D. | Vassiliev knot invariants from exceptional Lie algebras | |
| Timothy Paczynski | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Erik Carlsson - Math | |||
| Jonathan Erickson | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Roger Casals - Math | |||
| Allison Wong | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Kaveh Sayeh | Math, Ph.D. | Sheaf-theoretic invariants in contact topology | |
| Kenton Ke | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Alexander Simons | Math, Ph.D. | Algebraic invariants in contact geometry | |
| Bryce Thomson | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Rishidev Chaudhuri - Math | |||
| Valerie Fong | Applied, Ph.D. | Temporal computation through dynamically critical neural networks | |
| Yubei Chen - Electrical and Computer Engineering | |||
| Alexander Richardson | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Jesus De Loera - Math | |||
| Yu (Anna) Luo | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Jillian Eddy | Math, Ph.D. | Combinatorial geometry | |
| Anouk Brose | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Xiucai Ding - Statistics | |||
| Chen Qian | Applied, Ph.D. | Time series analysis | |
| Martin Fraas - Math | |||
| Ana Sammel | Applied, Ph.D. | Quantum adiabatic theory using a feedback loop | |
| Connor FitzGerald | Math, Ph.D. | Quantum Trajectories on infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces | |
| Elena Fuchs - Math | |||
| Thomas Allen | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Eugene Gorskiy - Math | |||
| Soyeon Kim | Math, Ph.D. | Braid variety cluster structures | |
| Janko Gravner - Math | |||
| Travis Kulhanek | Math, Ph.D. | Random Cellular Automata | |
| Robert Guy - Math | |||
| Alana Bailey | Applied, Ph.D. | Reinforcement learning for effective swimming gaits at the microscale | |
| Kenneth Brown | Math, Ph.D. | Numerical methods for fluid dynamics; analysis and extensions of the constraint immersed boundary method | |
| Joel Hass - Math | |||
| Yuan Luo | Applied, Ph.D. | Computational topology and geometry, and their application in machine learning. | |
| Alan Hastings - Environmental Science and Policy | |||
| Jennifer Paige | Applied, Ph.D. | Dynamical modeling of ecological systems; Machine learning for Earth systems modeling | |
| Sameer Iyer - Math | |||
| Noah Wiesner | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Adam Jacob - Math | |||
| Evan Ortiz | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Mina Karzand - Statistics | |||
| Matthew Stone | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Matthias Koeppe - Math | |||
| Acadia Larsen | Applied, Ph.D. | Parametric models of cut generating functions and their application to the cut and branch algorithm | |
| Greg Kuperberg - Math | |||
| Daniel Qin | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Sanchayan Dutta | Math, Ph.D. | Theoretical quantum computing | |
| Timothy Lewis - Math | |||
| Duc Hoang | Applied, Ph.D. | Mathematical and Computational Frameworks for Modeling Dopamine Dynamics and Efficient Nonlinear Optimization | |
| Bruno Nachtergaele - Math | |||
| Robert Ferydouni | Math, Ph.D. | Quantum spin systems, topological phases, phase transitions | |
| Anne Schilling - Math | |||
| Regina Zhou | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Lisa Johnston | Math, Ph.D. | Algebraic combinatorics and representation theory related to symmetric functions, crystal bases, and other combinatorial models | |
| Evuilynn Nguyen | Math, Ph.D. | Symmetric functions using Crystals and Lattice Models | |
| Sebastian Schreiber - Evolution and Ecology | |||
| Xuan (Kelsy) Fei | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Jennifer Schultens - Math | |||
| Alexis (Ally) Nagasawa-Hinck | Math, Ph.D. | Low-dimensional topology, knot theory, mosaics | |
| Hannah Moon | Math, Ph.D. | Kakimizu complex of Seifert surfaces | |
| Josiah Cowin | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Maike Sonnewald - Computer Science | |||
| Makayla McDevitt | Applied, Ph.D. | Using unsupervised and supervised learning to identify and predict ocean regions | |
| Laura Starkston - Math | |||
| Suixin (Cindy) Zhang | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Daniela Cortes Rodriguez | Math, Ph.D. | Low dimensional topology, particularly contact and symplectic structures on 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds, as well as the knots and surfaces they contain. | |
| Thomas Strohmer - Math | |||
| Jonathan Forstater | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Joseph Teran - Math | |||
| Zhenhan Zhao | Applied, Ph.D. | Computer graphics, rigid body dynamics, collision handling | |
| Alexander Richardson | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Junhui Shen | Applied, Ph.D. | Simulation of deformable and rigid dynamics | |
| Ruicong (Claire) Zheng | Applied, Ph.D. | Simulation of articulated rigid bodies with the application of constraints | |
| Abigail Thompson - Math | |||
| Trevor Oliveira-Smith | Math, Ph.D. | Surgery on knots in 3-manifolds and their relation to the smooth structure of certain 4-manifolds. More specifically, singular fibrations of knot complements and their relation to the smooth homology cobordism group. | |
| Fernanda Valdovinos - Ecology | |||
| Lauren Mossman | Applied, Ph.D. | Population Dynamical Modeling in Complex Ecosystems | |
| Casey Duckwall | Applied, Ph.D. | Mathematical modeling of complex ecological systems | |
| Alaina Stockdill | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Monica Vazirani - Math | |||
| Jake Quinn | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Andrew Waldron - Math | |||
| Ilana Udler | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Can Gormez | Math, Ph.D. | Parabolic and contact geometries and their applications, with a particular focus on contact projective structures, quantization, and convex hypersurfaces | |