Recent Ph.D. Graduates
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
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:
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
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, University of Drexel
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 Universitat Berlin
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
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
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
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: Visiting 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:
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Su Chen Kang
Graduation date: Spring 2017
Research area: Operator Algebras
Thesis title: Quantum Families of Maps
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job:
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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
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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
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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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Zheng Han
Graduation date: Fall 2015
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Reflected Diffusions and Application to Finance
Thesis advisor: Yaozhong Hu
First job: PhD student in finance, School of Business, University of Kansas
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Xi Li
Graduation date: Fall 2015
Research area: Dynamical Systems
Thesis title: Dynamics of a Degenerate Fokker-Planck Equation and its Applications
Thesis advisor: Weishi Liu
First job: Quantitative Analyst, Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, Kansas
Guannan Hu
Graduation date: Fall 2015
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Fractional Diffusion in Gaussian Noisy Environment
Thesis advisor: Yaozhong Hu
First job: Employment status unknown
Lucas Chaffee
Graduation date: Spring 2015
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Commutators of Multilinear Singular Integral Operators with Pointwise Multiplication
Thesis advisor: Rodolfo Torres
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Washington University
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Cody Clifton
Graduation date: Spring 2015
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: A Stochastic System Model for PageRank: Parameter Estimation and Adaptive Control
Thesis advisor: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
First job: Marketing Specialist, Adpearance, Portland, Oregon
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Billy Sanders
Graduation date: Spring 2015
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Categorical and Homological Aspects of Module Theory over Commutative Rings
Thesis advisor: Hailong Dao
First job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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Khoa Le
Graduation date: Spring 2015
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Nonlinear Integrals, Diffusions in Random Environments and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Thesis advisor: Yaozhong Hu
First job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute / Universities of Calgary and Alberta, Canada
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Jingyu Huang
Graduation date: Spring 2015
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Driven by Colored Noise
Thesis advisor: Yaozhong Hu and David Nualart
First job: Postdoctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute / University of Utah
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William Espenschied
Graduation date: Fall 2014
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Graphs of polytopes
Thesis advisor: Margaret Bayer
First job: Mathematics Adjunct, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, Florida
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Alex Console
Graduation date: Fall 2013
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Limit domains in several complex variables
Thesis advisor: Estela Gavosto
First job: Lecturer, University of Kansas
Current position: Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton, Norfolk, VA
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Daniel Harnett
Graduation date: Summer 2013
Research area: Probability and Statistics
Thesis title: Central limit theorems for some symmetric stochastic integrals
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
First job: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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Mingji Zhang
Graduation date: Summer 2013
Research area: Applied Mathematics
Thesis title: Dynamics of Poisson-Nernst-Planck system and applications to ionic channels
Thesis advisor: Weishi Liu
First job: Research Postdoc, Michigan State University
Current position: Assistant professor, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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Jarod Hart
Graduation date: Spring 2013
Research area: Harmonic Analysis
Thesis title: Bilinear Littlewood-Paley square functions and singular integrals
Thesis advisor: Rodolfo Torres
First job: Research Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas
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Fei Lu
Graduation date: Spring 2013
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Some applications of Malliavin calculus to SPDE and convergence of densities
Thesis advisor: Yaozhong Hu and David Nualart
First job: Mathematics Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Current position: Same
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Pedro Lei
Graduation date: Fall 2012
Research area: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: On the self-similar Gaussian processes
Thesis advisor: David Nualart
Current position: Quantitative Operations Associate, Bank of America, Wilmington, DE
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Maila Brucal Hallare
Graduation date: Fall 2012
Research area: Numerical Analysis
Thesis title: Solutions of lattice differential equations over inhomogeneous media
Thesis advisor: Erik Van Vleck
First job: Assistant Professor, Thomas Nelson Community College
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Charles Lamb
Graduation date: Fall 2012
Research area: Numerical Anlaysis
Thesis title: Neutral equations of mixed type
Thesis advisor: Erik Van Vleck
First job: Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Current position: Same
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Seungly Oh
Graduation date: Summer 2012
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title:
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First job: Postdoc,
Current position:
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Branden Stone
Graduation date: Summer 2012
Research area: Commutative Algebra
Thesis title: Super-stretched and countable Cohen-Macauley type
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College
Current position: Assistant Professor at Adelphi University
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Timothy Dorn
Graduation date: Spring 2012
Research area: Differential Equations
Thesis title: Shear flows in liquid crystal models
Thesis advisor: Weishi Liu
First job: Assistant Professor, North Georgia College and State University
Current position: National Security Agency
Xianping Li
Graduation date: Fall 2011
Research area: Numerical Anlaysis
Thesis title: Anisotropic mesh adaptation for the finite element solution of anisotropic diffusion problems
Thesis advisor: Weizhang Huang
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Thomas Enkosky
Graduation date: Summer 2011
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Enumerative and algebraic aspects of slope varieties
Thesis advisor: Jeremy Martin
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, US Coast Guard Academy
Current position: Lecturer, Boston University
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Aslihan Demirkaya
Graduation date: Spring 2011
Research area: Partial Differential Equations
Thesis title: Long-time behavior and the stability of special solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations
Thesis advisor: Milena Stanislavova
First job: Assistant Professor, University of Hartford
Current position: Same
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Brandon Humpert
Graduation date: Spring 2011
Research area: Combinatorics
Thesis title: Polynomials associated with graph colorings and orientations
Thesis advisor: Jeremy Martin
Current position: Data Engineer, GoFundMe, Redwood City, CA
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Daniel McNeill
Graduation date: Spring 2011
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: Properties of H-sets, Katetov spaces, and H-closed extensions with countable remainder
Thesis advisor: Jack Porter
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Montana Tech
Current position: Research Postdoc, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria in Milan, Itay
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Xiaoming Song
Graduation date: Spring 2011
Research area: Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: Backward stochastic differential equations and stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion and their numerical solutions
Thesis advisors: Yaozhong Hu and David Nualart
First job: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of North Carolina
Current position:Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Drexel University
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Yiannis Zachariou
Graduation date: Spring 2011
Research area: Stochastic Processes
Thesis title: Identification and adaptive control methods for some stochastic systems
Thesis advisor: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
First Job: Network Planner, Sprint Nextel Corporation
Current position: Data Scientist Consultant, Amdocs
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Erika Ward
Graduation date: Summer 2010
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: New estimates in harmonic analysis for mixed Lebesgue spaces
Thesis advisors: Rodolfo H. Torres
First job: Visiting Assistant Professor, Jacksonville University
Current position: Assistant Professor, Jacksonville University
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Jian V. Song
Graduation date: Spring 2010
Research area: Probability
Thesis title: Some topics on the fractional Brownian motion and stochastic partial differential equations
Thesis advisors: David Nualart and Yaozhong Hu
First job: Triennial Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong
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Ananthnarayan Hariharan
Graduation date: Summer 2009
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Approximating Artinian rings by Gorenstein rings and 3-standardness of the maximal ideal
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of Nebraska
Current position: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
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Kabe Moen
Graduation date: Spring 2009
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Linear and multilinear fractional operators: weighted inequalities, sharp bounds, and other properties
Thesis advisors: Rodolfo H. Torres and Carlos Perez
First job: William Chauvenet Postdoctoral Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis
Current position: Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama
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Jila Niknejad
Graduation date: Spring 2009
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: Some Properties of Realcompact Subspaces and Coarser Normal Spaces
Thesis advisor: Jack Porter
First job: Lecturer, University of Kansas
Current position: Same
Lynne Christine Yengulalp
Graduation date: Spring 2009
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: Coarser connected topologies and non-normality points
Thesis advisor: William Fleissner
First job: Assistant Professor, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Current position: Associate Professor, University of Dayton
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Jude Kastens
Graduation date: Summer 2008
Research area: Statistics
Thesis title: Some New Developments on Two Separate Topics: Statistical Cross Validation and Floodplain Mapping
Thesis advisor: David Lerner
First job: Research Assistant Professor, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program, University of Kansas
Current position: Same
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Manoj Kummini
Graduation date: Summer 2008
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Homological Invariants of Monomial and Binomial Ideals
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, Purdue University
Current position: Associate Professor, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India
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Yasong Jin
Graduation date: Fall 2007
Research area: Stochastic Control
Thesis title: Maximum Queue Length of a Fluid Model with a Gaussian Input
Thesis advisor: Tyrone Duncan
First job: Assistant Vice President, Bank of America
Xiaobo Liu
Graduation date: Fall 2007
Research area: Stochastic Control
Thesis title: Some Problems in the Stochastic Portfolio Theory
Thesis advisor: Tyrone Duncan
First job: Quantitative Analyst, KBC Financial Products, Hong Kong
Ken Parker
Graduation date: Summer 2007
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Some Results in Obstruction Theory for Projective Modules
Thesis advisor: Satyagopal Mandal
First job: Teaching position for the New York City Department of Education
Lon Mitchell
Graduation date: Spring 2007
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Simplicity of C*-Algebras Using Unique Eigenstates
Thesis advisor: William Paschke
First job: Postdoctoral position, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematics, University of Toronto, Canada
Current position: Editor, Mathematical Reviews
Nathan Andrew Carlson
Graduation date: Summer 2006
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: The Hausdorff Partial Order and Non-regular Power Homogeneous Spaces
Thesis advisor: Jack Porter
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of Arizona
Current position: Associate Professor, California Lutheran University
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Bahman Engheta
Graduation date: Summer 2005
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Bounds on Projective Dimension
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of California, Riverside
Current position: Senior Data Scientist at ZEFR, Los Angeles
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Diego Maldonado
Graduation date: Summer 2005
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Multilinear Singular Integrals and Quadratic Estimates
Thesis advisor: Rodolfo H. Torres
First job: Postdoctoral position, Norbert Wiener Center, University of Maryland
Current position: Professor, Kansas State University
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Glenn Rice
Graduation date: Summer 2005
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Asymptotic Properties of Torsion-Free Symmetric Powers of Modules
Thesis advisor: Daniel Katz
First job: Assistant Professor, D'Youville College
Current position: Associate Professor, Missouri Western State University
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Janet Striuli
Graduation date: Summer 2005
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Extensions of Modules and Uniform Bounds of Artin-Rees Type
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of Nebraska
Current position: Associate Professor, Fairfield University, Connecticut
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Neil Epstein
Graduation date: Spring 2005
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Closure Operators in Commutative Algebra; Tight Closure, Phantom Depth, and *-Spread
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, NSF Fellow, University of Michigan
Current position: Assistant Professor, George Mason University
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Giulio Caviglia
Graduation date: Summer 2004
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Kozul Algebras, Castelnuovo-Mumford Regularity and Generic Initial Ideals
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of California Berkeley and MSRI
Current position: Associate Professor, Purdue University
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Kelly Bach Flaherty
Graduation date: Fall 2003
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: A Cancellation Problem for Quantum Spheres
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: Assistant Professor, Benedictine College, Kansas
Current position: Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Denver
Luis Arana
Graduation date: Fall 2003
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: The C*-Algebra of Lie Semidirect Products of the Form R^n x_a R
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico
Ellen Mir
Graduation date: Summer 2003
Research area: Topology
Thesis title: Relative Topological Properties of Hausdorff Spaces
Thesis advisor: Jack Porter
First job: Assistant Professor, Elon University, North Carolina
Current position: Data Scientist, SAS
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Karen Braman
Graduation date: Spring 2003
Research area: Numerical Linear Algebra
Thesis title: Toward a Recursive QR Algorithm
Thesis advisor: Ralph Byers
First job: Assistant Professor, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Current position: Associate Professor, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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Marian K. Hukle
Graduation date: Fall 2002
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Real and Topological Stable Rank
Thesis advisor: Albert Sheu
First job: Research Grant Coordinator, Biosciences Initiative, University of Kansas
Yongwei Yao
Graduation date: Summer 2002
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Finite $F$-Representation Type and Primary Decomposition
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral positions, MSRI and University of Michigan
Current position: Associate Professor, Georgia State University
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Emanoil Theodorescu
Graduation date: Summer 2002
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Derived Functors and Hilbert Polynomials
Thesis advisor: Daniel Katz
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of Missouri, Columbia
Arpad Benyi
Graduation date: Spring 2002
Research area: Analysis
Thesis title: Bilinear Singular Integrals and Pseudodifferential Operators
Thesis advisor: Rodolfo H. Torres
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of Massachusetts
Current position: Professor, Western Washington University
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Eric West
Graduation date: Fall 2001
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Primes Associated to Multigraded Modules
Thesis advisor: Daniel Katz
First job: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Benedictine College, Kansas
Current position: Same
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Catalin Ciuperca
Graduation date: Summer 2001
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Generalized Hilbert Coefficients and the S_2-fication of a Rees Algebra
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of California, Riverside
Current position: Associate Professor, North Dakota State University
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Stephen D. Bond
Graduation date: Fall 2000
Research area: Scientific Computing
Thesis title: Numerical Methods for Extended Hamiltonian Systems
Thesis advisor: Benedict Leimkuhler and Brian Laird
First job: Postdoctoral position, University of California, San Diego
Current position: Senior technical staff, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories
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Mojtaba Noursalehi
Graduation date: Fall 2000
Research area: Statistics
Thesis title: Cubic Logistic Model and Dose Optimization for Binary Data
Thesis advisor: Benjamin Cobb
First job: Abbott Laboratories
Current position: Senior Vice President, InClin, San Francisco, CA
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Dora (Mihaela) Matache
Graduation date: Summer 2000
Research area: Stochastic Control
Thesis title: From Reality to Abstract in Stochastic Processes Applied to Telecommunications
Thesis advisor: Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
First job: Sprint Corporation
Current position: Professor, University of Nebraska, Omaha
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Peter Zimmer
Graduation date: Summer 2000
Research area: Stochastic Control
Thesis title: Numerical Approximation for the Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Equation with an Application to a Neural Model
Thesis advisor: Tyrone Duncan
First job: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, West Chester University
Current position: Same
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Lonnie Sauter
Graduation date: Summer 2000
Research area: Scientific Computing
Thesis title: Generalized Synchronism, Low-Dimensional Chaos, and Phase Coherence in Coupled Chaotic Systems
Thesis advisor: Ying-Cheng Lai
First job: Sprint Corporation
Current position: Finance Manager, Network Finance, Sprint
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Amelia Taylor
Graduation date: Spring 2000
Research area: Algebra
Thesis title: Initial Ideals and the Inverse Problem in Groebner Basis Theory
Thesis advisor: Craig Huneke
First job: Postdoctoral position, Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff Fellow and Rutgers University
Current position: Fellow, Insight Data Science, Bend, OR
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Magdalena Toda
Graduation date: Spring 2000
Research area: Differential Geometry
Thesis title: Pseudospherical Surfaces via Moving Frames and Loop Groups
Thesis advisor: Josef Dorfmeister and Constantin Udriste
First job: Postdoctoral position
Current position: Professor and Chair, Texas Tech University
