Recent PhD Graduates
Harrison Gaebler
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Functional Analysis
Thesis title: Optimal L2 Bounds for Certain Hamiltonian Linearizations and New Generalizations of Asymptotic Structures in Certain Banach Spaces
Thesis advisor: Milena Stanislavova
First job: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Oklahoma
Debaditya Raychaudhury
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Algebraic Geometry
Thesis title: Projective Normality and Normal Presentation for Adjoint Linear Series on Minimal Varieties
Thesis advisor: Purnaprajna Bangere
First job: Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto
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Jayan Mukherjee
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Algebraic Geometry
Thesis title: Deformations of Finite Morphisms and Applications to Moduli of Irregular Surfaces of General Type with K2 = 4pg - 8
Thesis advisor: Purnaprajna Bangere
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, ICERM/Brown University
Prashanth Sridhar
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Finding Maximal Cohen-Macaulay and Reflexive Modules
Thesis advisor: Daniel Katz
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, Charles University at Prague
Promit Kundu
Graduation date: Summer 2021
Research area: Geometry
Thesis title: Topics on Sheaves on DM Stacks
Thesis advisor: Yunfeng Jiang
First job:
Amanda Wilkens
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Ergodic Theory and Probability
Thesis title: Monotone Factor Maps and Finitary Isomorphisms
Thesis advisor: David Nualart and Terry Soo
First job: Postdoctoral Instructor, University of Texas, Austin
Wesley Perkins
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Modulation and Subharmonic Dynamics of Periodic Waves
Thesis advisor: Mat Johnson
First job: C.C. Hsiung Visiting Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
Raul Esteban Bolanos Guerrero
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Probability and Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: Limit Distributions for Skorohod Integrals and Spatial Averages of the Stochastic Wave and Heat Equation
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica
Bradley Isom
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Growth Bounds and Nonlinear Smoothing for the Periodic Benjamin-Ono and Derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Thesis advisor: Atanas Stefanov and Dionyssios Mantzavinos
First job: Credit Risk Analyst, T-Mobile, Overland Park, Kansas
Yiying Cheng
Graduation date: Spring 2021
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Mathematical Modeling, Estimation, and Application in Finance
Thesis advisor: Xuemin Tu and Yaozhong Hu
First job: Quantitative Analyst, FHLBank Topeka, Kansas
Panqiu Xia
Graduation date: Summer 2020
Research area: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Branching Particle Systems, Stochastic Partial Differentiable Equations and Nonlinear Rough Path Analysis
Thesis advisor: David Nualart and Yaozhong Hu
First job: Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Seyed Hamidreza Mofidi
Graduation date: Summer 2020
Research area: Nonlinear Dynamical Systems/Mathematical Biology
Thesis title: Electrodiffusion in Ionic Channels via PNP Models
Thesis advisor: Weishi Liu
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City
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Justin Lyle
Graduation date: Spring 2020
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Homological Properties of Structures in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Combinatorics
Thesis advisor: Hailong Dao
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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Yanhao Cui
Graduation date: Fall 2019
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: A General Stochastic Volatility Model on VIX Options
Thesis advisor: Terry Soo / Yaozhong Hu
First job: Financial Analyst, Security Benefit, Topeka, KS
Nicholas Ma
Graduation date: Fall 2019
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Hermite Variations of the Fractional Brownian Motion and the Stochstic Heat Equation Driven by a Rough Time Fractional Gaussian Noise
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Data Scientist, Cerner Corporation
Satbir Malhi
Graduation date: Summer 2019
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Optimal Energy Decay for the Damped Klein-Gordon Equation
Thesis advisor: Milena Stanislavova
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College
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Fazel Hadadifard
Graduation date: Summer 2019
Research area: Partial Differential Equations/Long-time Behavior
Thesis title: Sharp time Asymptotics for the Quasi-Geostrophic Equation, the Boussinesq System and Near Plane Waves of Reaction-Diffusion Models
Thesis advisor: Atanas Stefanov
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Drexel University
Ken Duna
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Matroid Independence Polytopes and Their Ehrhart Theory
Thesis advisor: Jeremy Martin
First job: Lecturer, University of Kansas
Connor Smith
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Partial Differential Equations/Dynamical Systems
Thesis title: Dynamics of Essentially Unstable Nonlinear Waves
Thesis advisor: Mat Johnson
First job: Data Scientist, Lowe's
Yufei Yu
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: An Adaptive Moving Mesh Finite Element Method and Its Applications to Mathematical Models from Physical Sciences and Image Processing
Thesis advisor: Weizhang Huang
First job: Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo
Iurii Posukhovskyi
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: On the Existence and Stability of Normalized Ground States of the Kawahara, Fourth Order NLS and the Ostrovsky Equations
Thesis advisor: Atanas Stefanov
First job: Senior Data Analyst, Home Depot
Avary Kolasinski
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Numerical Analysis/Scientific Computing
Thesis title: Surface and Bulk Moving Mesh Methods Based on Equidistribution and Alignment
Thesis advisor: Weizhang Huang
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Joseph Doolittle
Graduation date: Spring 2019
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Combinatorics, Geometry and Topology of Polytopal Complexes
Thesis advisor: Margaret Bayer
First job: Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin
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Brent Holmes
Graduation date: Fall 2018
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Serre's Condition and Depth of Stanley-Reisner Rings
Thesis advisor: Hailong Dao
First job: Business Intelligence Analyst 2, YRC Freight
Hee Sun Kim
Graduation date: Fall 2018
Research area: Statistics
Thesis title: Statistical Estimation and University Codes for Context Set Models
Thesis advisor: Zsolt Talata
First job: Business Intelligence Analyst 2, YRC Freight
Wen Feng
Graduation date: Summer 2018
Research area: Dynamical Systems
Thesis title: Analytical Studies of Standing Waves in Three NLS Models
Thesis advisor: Milena Stanislavova
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Current job: Assistant Professor, Niagara University
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Bennet Goeckner
Graduation date: Summer 2018
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Decompositions of Simplicial Complexes
Thesis advisor: Jeremy Martin
First job: Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Wenjun Ma
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Particle Filter for Hidden Non-Markovian Models and Block Sampling
Thesis advisor: Xuemin Tu
First job:
Kyle Claassen
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
Thesis title: Stability of Periodic Waves in Nonlocal Dispersive Equations
Thesis advisor: Mathew Johnson
First job: Assistant Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Arturo Jaramillo Gil
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Probability and Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: Limit Distributions for Functionals of Gaussian Processes
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Postdoctorate, University of Luxembourg/University of Singapore
Peter Lewis
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Probability and Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: Regularity of Stochastic Burgers'-Type Equations
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Data Scientist, Commerce Bank, Kansas City, MO
Hongjuan Zhou
Graduation date: Spring 2018
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Parameter Estimation for Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by Fractional Brownian Motion
Thesis advisor: David Nualart / Yaozhong Hu
First job: Professor of Practice, Arizona State University
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Bin Wang
Graduation date: Fall 2017
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints Algorithms for Incompressible Stokes Equations with Nonconforming Finite Element Discretizations
Thesis advisor: Xuemin Tu
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Hood College
Wei-Da Chen
Graduation date: Fall 2017
Research area: Noncommutative Geometry
Thesis title: Riemannian Geometry on Some Noncommutative Spaces
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job:
Cuong Ngo
Graduation date: Spring 2017
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Moving Mesh Methods for Numerical Solution of Porous Medium Equations
Thesis advisor: Weizhang Huang
First job: Assistant Professor, Bethany College
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Biswajit Rajaguru
Graduation date: Spring 2017
Research area: Algebraic Geometry
Thesis title: Projective Normality for Some Families of Surfaces of General Type
Thesis advisor: Bangere Purnaprajna
First job:
Su Chen Kang
Graduation date: Spring 2017
Research area: Operator Algebras
Thesis title: Quantum Families of Maps
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job:
Andrew Steyer
Graduation date: Summer 2016
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: A Lyapunov Exponent Based Stability Theory for Ordinary Differential Equation Initial Value Problem Solvers
Thesis advisor: Erik Van Vleck
First job: Postdoctoral Researcher, Sandia National Lab
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Grant Serio
Graduation date: Summer 2016
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Multiplicities in Commutative Algebra
Thesis advisor: Dan Katz
First job: Lecturer, University of Kansas
Current job: National Security Agency
Leonard Huang
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Generalized Fixed-Point Algebras for Twisted C*-Dynamical Systems
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: Burnett C. Meyer Postdoctoral Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Chen Su
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Probability and Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Some Studies on Parameter Estimations
Thesis advisors: Yaozhong Hu and Xuemin Tu
First job: Quantitative Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities, Charlotte, NC
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Yanghui Liu
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Numerical Solutions of Rough Differential Equations and Stochastic Differential Equations
Thesis advisor: David Nualart and Yaozhong Hu
First job: Golomb Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Purdue University
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John Reynolds
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: Convergence Properties of Hausdorff Closed Spaces
Thesis advisor: Jack Porter
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Hendrix College, Conway, AR
Tony Se
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Depth and Associated Primes of Modules Over a Ring
Thesis advisor: Hailong Dao
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Shalan Alkarni
Graduation date: Spring 2016
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Three Dimensional Jacobian Derivations and Divisor Class Groups
Thesis advisor: Jeff Lang
First job: Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
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