University of Pittsburgh

 

Recent Graduates

PhD Degrees

 

Year Name Position Dissertation Title
2012 Daniel Smith IRTA Fellow, Clinical Center, NIH MAthematical Models of Branching Actin Networks: Results and Methods
2012 Merve Kovan-Bakan   Complexity of Families of Compact sets in R^n
2012 Alexey Solovyev Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pittsburgh Formal Computations and Methods
2012 Zhuomin Liu Postdoctoral Fellow, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic Conformal Mappings and Isomtric Immersions Under Second Otder Sobolev Regularity
2012 Christopher Jones Quantitative Risk Analyst, BNY Mellon Optimal Mortgage Prepayment Under the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Model
2012 Lucy Spardy Postdoctoral research Fellow, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University Investigating the effects of Networks Structure and Afferent Feedback in Models of Rhythmic Movement
2012 Veysel Nezir Part-time faculty, Community College of Allegheny College Fixed Point Properties for Co-like Spaces
2012 Bo Shi Assistant Vice President, Quant Analyst, Bank of America Structural Model for Credit Default in One and Higher Dimensions
2011 Aushra Abouzeid   Stochastic Neural Oscillators: Theaory, Simulation and Experiment
2011 Huibin Cheng Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University Non-Convexity of the Optimal Exercise Boundary for an American put Option on a Dividend-paying Asset
2011 Justin Dunmyre T.H. Hildebrant Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of Michigan A Study of Bursting in the Pre-Botsinger Complex
2011 Emre Essenturk Postdoctoral Associate, Pohang Math Institute, Postech University, South Korea Generalized Phase Field Models with Microscope Potentials
2011 Gregory Francos Technical Services/ Problem Solver, Epic Systems Luzing Type Approximation of Functions of Bounded Variation
2011 Ross Ingram Mathematician, Reactor Technology, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory Approximating Viscous Incompresible Fluid Flow in Complicated Domains
2011 Nathaniel Mays Assistant Professor, Wheeling Jesuit University Iterated Regularization Methods for Solving Inverse Problems
2011 Ryan O'Grady Assistant Professor, LaRoche College Rifing Rak Anlaysis of a Linear Integrate-and-Rre Neuronal Model
2011 Ian Price Mathematical Modeler, Immunetrics, Inc. Mathematical Modeling of Chemical Signals in Inflammatory Pathways
2011 Susmita Sadhu Assistant Professor, Southwest Minnesota Sate University Existence and Asymtotic Analysis of Solutions of Singularily Perturbed Boundary Valve Problems
2011 Mark DeSantis Assistant Professor, Chapman University Dynamics of Asset Price Changes: Statistical and Differential Equations Models
2011 Alexander Sviridov Principal Risk Analysis & Portfolio Strategy, Vanderbilt University Elliptic Equations in Graphs vir Stochastic Games
2011 Sergio Verduzco-Flores Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Colorado, Boulder Working Memory and Oscillations: The Implications on Neural Populations
2010 Yan Yu   Traveling Waves of a Nonlocal Conservation Law
2010 Lung K Tsui Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Waterloo Multi-name Credit Risk Modeling
2010 Danail Vassilev Postdoctoral Fellow, Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Discretizations and Solvers for Coupling Stokes-Darcy Flows with Transport
2010 Evgeni Trofimov Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pittsburgh Shocks Versus Kinks in a Discrete Model of Dispacive Phase Trasition
2010 Saishuai Tang Quantitative Associate, Citibank Mathematical Modeling of Immune Response and Vocal Fold Inflammation
2010 Qiang Sun Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo State Analysis of Importance Sampling in Parameter Estimation of a Stochastic Volatility Model
2010 Alexander Lozovskiy Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire de Mechanique et Genie Civil Numerical Analysis of the Aerodynamical Noise Prediction in Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation
2010 Xianpeng Hu Courant Intrustor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Weak Solutions and Incompressible Limits of Multi-dimentional Magnetohydrodynamic Flows
2010 Ziqin Feng Assistant Professor, Auburn University Hilbert's 13th Problem
2010 Jeffrey Connors Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Livermore national Laboratory Partitioned Time Discretization for Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction
2010 Onyeka Obi Director of Research, Tradewinds Capital Management, Shoreline Washington Results of Approximation and Measure on Mutational Spaces
2010 Benjamin Ganis Postdoctoral Fellow, ICES, University of Texas Multiscale Methods for Stochastic Collocation of the Mixed Finite Elements for the Flow in Prous Media
2009 Dan Radelet Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Hardy-type Sequence Spaces and Cesarvo Frames
2009 Alfred Dahma Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Scales of Function and Matrix Spaces
2009 Robert Berry Postdoctoral Appointee, Reacting Flow Research Department,

Sandia National Laboratories

 Lipschitz Estimates for Geodesics in the Heisenberg Group
2008 Evandro Manica Assistant Professor, Departamento de Matematica, UFRGS (Universidade Federal do RIo Grande do Sul), Brazil Effects of coupling and hetero geneity in the Pre-Botzinger complex cells using first return maps
2008 Chetan Balwe Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, Post-Doctoral Associate Geometric motivic integration on Artin n-stacks
2008 Alexander Labovschii Michigan Tech University, Assistant Professor Mathematical architecture for models of fluid flow phenomena
2008 Thomas Poerio Dodson Engineering, Inc., Project Manager Topological algebraic structure in the density topology and on Souslin Lines
2008 Angela Reynolds Virginia Commonwealth University, Assistant Professor Mathematical Models of Acute Inflammation and a Full Lung Model of a Gas Exchange Under Inflammatory Stress
2008 Iuliana Stanculescu Nova Southeastern University, Assistant Professor Turbulence Modeling as an Ill-posed Problem
2007 Qi Mi University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Sports Medicine and Nutrition, Assistant Professor Modeling wound healing in necrotizing enterocolitis and diabetic foot ulcer
2007 Baris Hancioglu Rice University, Postdoctoral Fellow Mathematical modeling of virus dynamics in Immunology
2007 Jerry Day University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Assistant Professor On Banach function spaces and the fixed point property
2007 Judy Day University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Assisstant Profressor Mathematical approaches to modeling, understanding and controlling the acute inflammatory response to pathogen and endotoxin
2007 Yekaterina Epshteyn University of Utah, Assistant Professor HP primal discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for two-phase flow in porous media
2007 Monika Neda University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Assistant Professor Numerical analysis and phenomenology of homogeneous, isotropic turbulence generated by higher outer models of turbulence
2007 Bojana Pejic UBS Warburg, financial markets education, Associate Director On the uniqueness of Polish group topologies
2007 Dejun Xie University of Delaware, Postdoctoral researcher Optimal prepayment strategy of mortgages
2007 Fatma Gurel Postdoctoral Associate,
Emory University		 Pattern formation in coupled networks with inhibition and gap junctions
2007 Gary Hart Instructor, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg A constraint-stabilized time-stepping approach for piecewise smooth multibody dynamics
2007 Gergina Pencheva Postdoctoral Associate, University of Texas Multi-block modeling of flow in porous media and applications
2006 Abebaw Tadesse Assistant Professor, Langston University Compact Composition Operators on the Hardy and Bergman Spaces
2006 Leo Rebholz Clemson University, Assistant Professor Helicity and physical fidelity in turbulence modeling
2006 Dana Mihai Visiting Assistant Professor,
Carnegie-Mellon University		 Mathematical aspects of twistor theory
2006 Jyotsna Diwakdar Visiting Assistant Professor,
Wayne State University		 Nilpotent conjugacy classes of reductive p-adic lie algebras and defirsibility in Pas's language
2006 Ahmet Duran Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Overreaction behavior and optimization techniques in mathematical finance
2006 Carolina Manica Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Assistant Professor Numerical methods in turbulence
2006 Matthew Jackson Mathematical Statistician at FDA, Washington, DC A sheaf theoretic approach to measure theory
2005 Lan Cheng Assistant Professor,
SUNY at Fredonia		 Analysis and numerical solution of an inverse first passage problem from risk management
2005 Jon Drover Postdoctoral Associate, New Jersey Institute
of Technology		 The interplay of intrinsic dynamics and coupling in spatially distributed neuronal networks
2005 Jason Morris Assistant Professor, SUNY at Brockport Nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations on unbounded domains
2004 Kaya Songul Assistant Professor, Middle East Technical University Numerical analysis of a variational multiscale method for turbulence
2004 Vahan Grigoryan Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pittsburgh Multimodal biometric analysis for monitoring of wellness
2004 Andras Domokos Associate Professor, California State University On the regularity of P-harmonic functions in the Heisenberg group
2004 Adrian Argus Dunca Assistant Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Space averaged Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of walls
2004 Faranak Pahlevani Assistant Professor, Penn State University, Abington Sensitivity analysis of eddy viscosity models
2004 Edward Krisner Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Multi-bumpsolutions of a one dimentional Wilson-Cowan type model
2004 Wesley Cross Visiting Assistant Professor, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Principal value volumes of P-Adic rational polymedra
2004 Huseyin Merdan Assistant Professor TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, turkey Renormalization group methods in applied mathematical problems
2004 Colleen Scott-Pomerantz Chatham University The k-epsilon model
2004 Andrew Marsh Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ireland, Gallway Topology of function spaces
2004 Gregory Wisloski Associate Professor, Indiana University
of Pennsylvania		 Some characterizations of generalized metric spaces using the diagonal
2003 Yixin Guo Assistant Professor, Drexel University Existence and stability of standing pulses in neural networks
2003 Rodica Curtu Assistant Professor, Universty of Iowa Waves and oscillations in model neuronal networks
2003 Noel Heitmann Assistant Professor, Millersville University Subgrid stabilization of evolutionary diffusive transport problems
2003 Nizazi Sahin Assistant Professor,
Mugla University		 Derivation, analysis, and testing of new near wall models for large eddy simulation
2003 Amela Begovic-Muratovic University of Sarajevo, Assistant Professor Polynomials that commute with a given polynomial over finite fields
2002 Fu Zhang Assistant Professor, Cheyney Univeristy of Pennsylvania Two shooting problems in ordinary differential equations
2002 Jocelyn Quaintance Visiting Research Assistant Professor, West Virginia University Proper m x n arrays: geometric and algebraic methods of classifications
2002 Joshua Sasmor Assistant Professor,
Seton Hill University		 Fatou, Julia, and Mandelbrat sets for functions with non-integer exponent
2002 Husain Al-Attas Assistant Professor,
King Fahd University		 Enhancing reliability of porous media flow through sensitity computation
2002 Yusaf Bilgin Altundas IMA Industrial Postdoctorate,
University of Minnesota		 Phase field computations and comparison with experiments
2002 Mary Salter Associate Professor, Franciscan University
of Steubenville		 Degree theory for compact perturbations of Fredholm maps of index zero
2002 Atife Cagler Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Reliable finite element simulation of boundary driver turbulence
2002 Hattan Tawfiq Assistant Professor,
King Fahd University		 Numerical modeling of reactive infiltration instabilities
2002 Ge Han Assistant Professor Towson University American options on several assets
2002 Marius Buliga Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
at Bradford		 On the enumeration of colored spanning trees in graph
2002 Kimberly Burch Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Matching equivalencies and chemical graph theory
2001 Devendria Kapadia Technical Support Engineer,
Wolfram Research, Inc.		 A class of conformally Einstein space-times
2001 Tanfer Tanriverdi Assistant Professor, Harran University Boundary-value problems in ODE (the Fanno model for turbulent compressible flow, eigenfunction expansions)
2001   Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Critical colorations
2001 Luyan Wang Software Developer, Silverstone Software On permutation polynomials
2001 Mohammed Jaradat Assistant Professor, Yarmouk University On the edge-chromatic numbers, the basis number, and the Hamiltonian decomposition of the graph products
2001 Congyu Gao Staff Engineer, Broadvision A free boundary problem in the limit of slow-diffusion, fast-reaction systems
2000 Soundararajan Ezekiel Associate Professor,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania 		Computational fractal methods for image analysis and compression
2000 Traian Iliescu Associate Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Large eddy simulations for turbulent flows
2000 Shangbing Ai Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Huntsville Multipulse orbits for a singularly perturbed nearly integrable systems