Graduate Student Thesis Advisers
Below is a list of currently active thesis advisers, and what topic each graduate student is studying.
| Faculty Adviser | Grad Student | Degree Sought | Student Research Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babson, Eric - Math | |||
| Hannon, Nathan | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Murray, John | Math, Ph.D. | Connections between the Tropical Vertex Group, Tropical Enumerative Invariants, and Relative Gromov-Witten Invariants | |
| Bai, Zhaojun - CS | |||
| Lin, Chao-Ping | Applied, Ph.D. | Large sparse eigenvalue problems and the nonlinear eigenvalue problems arising from physical and engineering applications | |
| Balasubramanian, Krishna - Statistics | |||
| Nguyen, Anthony | Applied, Ph.D. | Stochastic Optimization | |
| De Loera, Jesus - Math | |||
| Zhang, Zhenyang | Math, Ph.D. | Combinatorial problems related to efficiency of the simplex method | |
| Dimofte, Tudor - Math | |||
| Niu, Wenjun | Math, Ph.D. | Category of Line operators in 4d and 3d SUSY gauge theories | |
| Doty, Dave - Computer Science | |||
| Haley, David | Applied, Ph.D. | Robust molecular programming, chemical reaction networks | |
| Severson, Eric | Applied, Ph.D. | Molecular computation, chemical reaction networks, and distributed computing | |
| Fan, Yueyue | |||
| Liu, Ning | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Fannjiang, Albert - Math | |||
| Zhang, Zheqing | Applied, Ph.D. | Solving phase retrieval by Douglas Rachford/ADMM method | |
| Fuchs, Elena - Math | |||
| Litman, Matthew | Math, Ph.D. | Approximation theory of numbers (backwards continued fractions, continued fractions, and rational approximations) and analytic number theory (expansions of number theoretic functions in orthogonal polynomials/coefficient asymptotics and super approximatio | |
| Goldman, Mark - NPB | |||
| Dong, Stella | Applied, Ph.D. | balanced (excitation and inhibition) rate-based and spike-based models for oculomotor integrator | |
| Guy, Robert - Math | |||
| Leathers, Brittany | Applied, Ph.D. | More efficient Immersed Boundary methods for studying interactions between fluid and rigid bodies and other boundary value PDE | |
| Hass, Joel - Math | |||
| Wong, Ka Wai | Applied, Ph.D. | Computational geometry | |
| Hastings, Alan | |||
| Vogel, Kaela | Applied, Ph.D. | Time scale of transient dynamics of predator-prey food web networks | |
| Meyer, Alexander | Applied, Ph.D. | Ecology and biology of coastal marine fish and invertebrate larvae | |
| Corcoran, Carl | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Jacob, Adam - Math | |||
| Harvie, Brian | Math, Ph.D. | Geometric evolution equations | |
| Sheu, Norman | Math, Ph.D. | Complex differential geometry | |
| Kuperberg, Greg - Math | |||
| Okada, Rui | Math, Ph.D. | Quantum error correction and quantum metric spaces | |
| Wu, Haihan | Math, Ph.D. | Jones-Wenzl Projector Expansions for g_2 and sp_4, Theta symbol and Tetrahedron symbol for rank two Lie Algebras. | |
| Tran, Austin | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Lewis, Timothy - Math | |||
| Meyer, Emily | Applied, Ph.D. | cardiac pacemaking and modulation by the sympathetic nervous system | |
| Rose, Adam | Applied, Ph.D. | ||
| Liu, Xin - Comp Sci | |||
| Sollers, Keith | Applied, Ph.D. | Optimal placement of trades in securities market exchanges, with an emphasis on using machine-learning techniques to minimize transaction costs | |
| Lopes, Miles - Math | |||
| Chen, Xiaotie | Applied, Ph.D. | Bootstrap methods for error analysis of randomized algorithms | |
| Ma, Shiqian - Math | |||
| Wang, Zhongruo | Applied, Ph.D. | Optimization algorithms and its application in machine learning | |
| Morris, Ben - Math | |||
| Santhakumar, Hamilton | Math, Ph.D. | ||
| Senda, Alto | Math, Ph.D. | Mixing Times of Shuffles | |
| Mulase, Motohico - Math | |||
| Brown, Jennifer | Math, Ph.D. | Categorification, quantization, and the Hitchin moduli space of Higgs bundles. Quantum invariants of knots and 3-manifolds | |
| Nachtergaele, Bruno - Math | |||
| Reschke, Jake | Math, Ph.D. | Random operators and disordered quantum many-body systems | |
| Rademacher, Luis - Math | |||
| Chen, Haolin | Applied, Ph.D. | Tensor problems with application to Gaussian mixtures and foundation of data sciences | |
| Shu, Chang | Applied, Ph.D. | Algorithms and theoretical computer science. | |
| Leroux, Brett | Math, Ph.D. | Discrete Geometry, Convexity, Polytopes, and k-sets | |
| Saito, Naoki - Math | |||
| Shvarts, Eugene | Applied, Ph.D. | Theory and structure of social networks | |
| Weber, David | Applied, Ph.D. | Scattering transform, applications to sonar classification, and theory of CNNs | |
| Li, Haotian | Applied, Ph.D. | Natural graph wavelet and distance geometry of the Laplacian eigenfunctions | |
| Schilling, Anne - Math | |||
| Poh, Wencin | Math, Ph.D. | Crystal bases, symmetric functions. | |
| Pappe, Joseph | Math, Ph.D. | Symmetric Functions and Crystal Bases | |
| Pan, Jianping | Math, Ph.D. | Crystals and symmetric functions | |
| Schultens, Jennifer - Math | |||
| Alameda, Andrew | Math, Ph.D. | low dimensional topology | |
| Sharpnack, James - Statistics | |||
| Sheng, Stephen | Applied, Ph.D. | Deep Learning and its applications. Development of unsupervised and semi-supervised learning techniques for machine learning | |
| Shemetov, Dmitry | Applied, Ph.D. | Information theory and establishing statistical limits in distributed systems with communication constraints. Development of graph-based machine learning algorithms | |
| Soshnikov, Alexander - Math | |||
| Aguirre, Ander | Math, Ph.D. | Linear statistics for random matrix ensembles | |
| Sumpter, Joshua | Math, Ph.D. | Linear Statistics for Random Matrix Ensembles | |
| Strohmer, Thomas - Math | |||
| Sheng, Junda | Applied, Ph.D. | Semi-supervised Community Detection via Semidefinite Programming | |
| Temple, Blake - Math | |||
| Alexander, Christopher | Applied, Ph.D. | General Relativistic Shock Wave Theory | |
| Vazirani, Monica - Math | |||
| Zhao, Yue | Math, Ph.D. | tableaux on periodic skew diagrams and the representations of double affined Hecke algebra | |
| Walcott, Sam - Math | |||
| Jarvis, Katelyn | Applied, Ph.D. | Mathematical modeling of the molecular mechanisms of muscle contraction | |
| Xia, Qinglan - Math | |||
| Sun, Haotian | Math, Ph.D. | ||