Advanced Graduate Research

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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
Timothy PaczynskiMath, Ph.D.
Jake GarciaMath, Ph.D.
Elysee Wilson-EgolfMath, Ph.D.
Erik Carlsson - Math
Jonathan EricksonMath, Ph.D.
Roger Casals - Math
Allison WongMath, Ph.D.
Kaveh SayehMath, Ph.D.
Kenton KeMath, Ph.D.
Bryce ThomsonMath, Ph.D.
Alexander SimonsMath, Ph.D.Algebraic invariants in contact geometry
Rishidev Chaudhuri - Math
Valerie FongApplied, Ph.D.
Yubei Chen - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alexander RichardsonApplied, Ph.D.
Jesus De Loera - Math
Jillian EddyMath, Ph.D.
Anouk BroseMath, Ph.D.
Yu (Anna) LuoApplied, Ph.D.
Xiucai Ding - Statistics
Chen QianApplied, Ph.D.Time series analysis
Martin Fraas - Math
Ana SammelApplied, Ph.D.
Connor FitzGeraldMath, Ph.D.Quantum Trajectories on infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces
Elena Fuchs - Math
Thomas AllenMath, Ph.D.
Eugene Gorskiy - Math
Soyeon KimMath, Ph.D.Braid variety cluster structures
Janko Gravner - Math
Travis KulhanekMath, Ph.D.
Robert Guy - Math
Kenneth BrownMath, Ph.D.
Alana BaileyApplied, Ph.D.
Joel Hass - Math
Yuan LuoApplied, Ph.D.Computational topology and geometry, and their application in machine learning. 
Alan Hastings - Environmental Science and Policy
Jennifer PaigeApplied, Ph.D.
Sameer Iyer - Math
Noah WiesnerApplied, Ph.D.
Adam Jacob - Math
Evan OrtizMath, Ph.D.
Mina Karzand - Statistics
Matthew StoneApplied, Ph.D.
Matthias Koeppe - Math
Acadia LarsenApplied, Ph.D.Parametric models of cut generating functions and their application to the cut and branch algorithm
Greg Kuperberg - Math
Daniel QinMath, Ph.D.
Sanchayan DuttaMath, Ph.D.QC-universality and anyonic fault-tolerance methods from 3-manifold invariants and quantum algebra
Timothy Lewis - Math
Duc HoangApplied, Ph.D.
Bruno Nachtergaele - Math
Robert FerydouniMath, Ph.D.
Anne Schilling - Math
Regina ZhouMath, Ph.D.
Lisa JohnstonMath, Ph.D.Crystal bases and symmetric functions
Evuilynn NguyenMath, Ph.D.
Sebastian Schreiber - Evolution and Ecology
Xuan (Kelsy) FeiApplied, Ph.D.
Jennifer Schultens - Math
Hannah MoonMath, Ph.D.The Kakimizu complex of knots and low-dimensional topology
Josiah CowinMath, Ph.D.
Alexis (Ally) Nagasawa-HinckMath, Ph.D.
Maike Sonnewald - Computer Science
Makayla McDevittApplied, Ph.D.Using unsupervised and supervised learning to identify and predict ocean regions
Laura Starkston - Math
Suixin (Cindy) ZhangMath, Ph.D.
Daniela Cortes RodriguezMath, 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 ForstaterApplied, Ph.D.
Joseph Teran - Math
Zhenhan ZhaoApplied, Ph.D.
Alexander RichardsonApplied, Ph.D.
Junhui ShenApplied, Ph.D.
Ruicong (Claire) ZhengApplied, Ph.D.Simulation of articulated rigid bodies with the application of constraints
Abigail Thompson - Math
Trevor Oliveira-SmithMath, 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 MossmanApplied, Ph.D.
Casey DuckwallApplied, Ph.D.Population Dynamical Modeling in Complex Ecosystems
Alaina StockdillApplied, Ph.D.
Monica Vazirani - Math
Jake QuinnMath, Ph.D.
Andrew Waldron - Math
Ilana UdlerMath, Ph.D.
Can GormezMath, Ph.D.Differential geometry and its applications to mathematical physics / geometric aspects of quantization and homogeneous spaces.