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
	Skorczewski, Tyler	Applied, Ph.D.	Computational Biofluid Mechanics
	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.
	Kim, Edward	Math, Ph.D.	Computational and discrete geometry, combinatorial optimization and convex polyhedra
Freund, Roland - Math
	Ebeida, Mohamed	Applied, M.S.
Gravner, Janko - Math
	Sivakoff, David	Applied, Ph.D.	Random subgraph models of genetic fitness landscapes
Hass, Joel - Math
	Nakamura, Kei	Math, Ph.D.	Geometry and topology of low dimensional manifolds
Hastings, Alan - Math
	Goldwyn, Eli	Applied, Ph.D.	Population Dynamics
Kapovich, Michael - Math
	Gouvea, Ezra	Math, Ph.D.
	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
Mogilner, Alex - Math
	Miller, Adam	Applied, Ph.D.	Theoretical ecology. Mechanisms of species coexistence. Competitive coexistence under spatio-temporal disturbance regimes
Nachtergaele, Bruno - Math
	Michalakis, Spyridon	Applied, Ph.D.	Modeling wires for quantum computers: Quantum entanglement on 1-D spin chains.
	Raz, Hillel	Math, Ph.D.	lieb-robinson bounds on a variety of systems
	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
Schilling, Anne - Math
	Wang, Qiang	Math, Ph.D.	Discrete Math
	Pon, Steven	Math, Ph.D.	Combinatorial Representation Theory
Schultens, Jennifer - Math
	Stevens, Alice	Math, Ph.D.	3-manifolds and knot theory
Strohmer, Thomas - Math
	Needell, Deanna	Math, Ph.D.	Probability and Functional Analysis with applications to Sparse Reconstruction
	Hunter, Blake	Applied, Ph.D.	Harmonic Analysis
Thompson, Abigail - Math
	Manjarrez-Gutierrez, Fabiola	Math, Ph.D.	Low dimensional topology
	Moore, Marion	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