Recent Graduates

Year	Name	Position	Dissertation Title
2019	Jeffrey Dunworth		Mesoscale Systems, Finite Size Effects, and Balance Neural Networks
2019	Jing Liu		Transferable credit default swaps with counterparty risks
2018	Rongfang Zhang		Global exisitance and regularity for the active liquid crystal system
2018	Jason Pina	Post-Doctoral Visitor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University	Evoked patterns of oscillatory activity in mean-field neuronal networks
2018	Quinn Donahoe	Quantitative Risk Analyst, BNY Mellon	A machine learning approach to the optimal execution problem
2018	Xiao Chang		The reconstruction and realization of topological groups
2018	Joseph Fiordilino	Scientist in Measurement Science and Engineering, Naval Survace Warfare Center Corona Division	Ensemble time-stepping algorithms for natural convection
2018	Cezar Lupu	Postdoctoral Scholar in Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University	Analytic Aspects of the Riemann Zeta and Multiple Zeta Values
2018	Jacob Mirra	Consultant, Curriculum Development, Dulwich Volleve International/Red Gate	Holder Continuous Mappings into Sub-Riemannian Manifolds
2018	Ali Pakzad	Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematics, University of California at Riverside	Energy dissipation in turbulence
2018	Roxana-Irina Popescu	Lecturer, Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh	Fixed points and duality of closed convex sets in Banach spaces
2018	Diego Ricciotti	Postdoc in Mathematics, University of South Florida	Geometric analysis: regularity theory for subelliptic PDEs and incompatible elasticity
2018	Kimberly Romanelli	Lecturer, Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder	Geometries of Hyperbolic Surfaces with and without Boundary
2018	Ilona Ambartsumyan	Postdoctoral Fellow, ICES, University of Texas at Austin	Mathematical and numerical modeling of fluid-poroelastic media
2018	Luca Codenotti	Algorithm Engineer, AI Production, Afinity Inc.	Numerical implementations of theoretical results in partial differential equations
2018	Ahmet Guzel	Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Batman University	Higher order time filters for evolution equations
2018	Eldar Khattatov	Postdoctoral Fellow, ICES, University of Texas at Austin	Efficient discretization techniques and domain decomposition methods for poroelasticity
2018	Youngmin Park	Postdoctoral Researcher in Otorhinolaryngology, University of Pennsylvania	Dimension reduction of neural models across multiple spatio-temporal scales
2017	Shuai Zhao	Quantitative Analyst, Model Risk Management, US Bank	Pricing credit default swaps with counterparty risks
2017	Marc Beauchamp	Math Teacher, Technology Leadership High School	On Extremal Punctured Spheres
2017	Samuel Saiki	Tutor, Self Employed	Geometric Structures on Manifolds
2017	Duygu Sap	Postdoc Researcher, International Conputer Science Institute	Comforming stokes elements yielding divergence-free approximations on quadrilateral meshes
2017	Pu Song	Software Engineer, Samsung Research America	Coupling Stokes-Darcy flow with transport on irregular geometries
2017	Aliaksandra Yarosh	Postdoctoral Scholar, Pennsylvania State University	Computations in twisted Morava K-theory
2017	Jerema Harris	Postdoctoral Researcher, Emory University	A spatially extended Wilson Cowan model for coutical circuits: Fram Patterns to wave
2017	Jilong Hu	PNC Bank	Vortex Sheets in Elastic Fluids
2017	Nicholas Hurl	Instructor, Slippery Rock University	Analysis of Tiem Filters in Multisteps Methods
2017	Sarah Khankan	Assistant Professor, George Mason University	Predictability of Average Temperatures using Ensemble Algorithms
2017	Soheil Malekzadeh	Director of Mobile and Tablet Products, YinzCan Inc.	Unrectifiability of metric xpaces and mapping of bounded length distortion
2017	Changqing Wang	Software Developer, The MathWorks Inc.	Domain Decomposition Methods for Coupled Stokes-Dacy Flows
2017	Scott Zimmerman	Assistant Research Professor, University of Connecticut	Sard in Sobolev Space and Curves in the Heisenberg Group
2016	David Burstein	Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College	Challenges in Random Graph Models w/ degree Heterogeneity; Existance, Enumeration and Aymptotics of Spectral Radius
2016	Jorge Cely		Applications of motivic integration to the fundamental lemma
2016	Torrey Gallagher	Visitng Assistant Professor, Bucknell University	Averaging and Fixed Points in Banach Spaces
2016	Peng He	Consultant of Model Development, PNC Bank	Mathematical Analysis of Credit Default Swaps
2016	Yong Li	Vice President, Goldman Sachs	Time filters for numerical weather predictions
2016	Jeremiah Morgan	Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh	Tukey Quotients, Pre-ideals and neighborhood filters with Calibre
2016	Irina Navrotskaya	Adjunct Instructor, Mathematics, Penn State New Kensington	The inverse problem in classical statistical mechanics
2016	Abigail Snyder	Post Doctorate Research Associate, Joint Global Change Research Inst.	Computational analysis of pattern generation in reduced vertebrate motor circuit models
2016	Shelby Stanhope	Professor, Air Force Academy	Parameter Estimation for Dynamical Systems
2016	Roxana Tanase		Parameter estimation for Partial Differential Equations using Stochastic Methods
2016	YangYang Wang	MBI Postdoc Fellow, Lecturer, Ohio state university	Analysis of complex bursting patterns in multiple timescale respiratory neuron models
2016	Matthew Wheeler	Postdoc Research Associate, University of Arizona	Rational structurses and Differential Refinements
2016	Jiaqing Xu	Vice President, Bank of Mellon NY	Modeling defaults in banking & real estate
2016	Glenn Young	Professor, Kennesaw State University	Pathogen dynamics; modeling and analysis of competition, organization, and vaccination
2016	Xiaodan Zhou	Post Doctoral Scholar, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.	Analysis and PDE on Metric Measure Spaces: Sobolev functions & viscosity solutions
2015	Daniel Grady	PostDoc, New York University, Abu Dhabi	Steenrod squares and Massey products in Deligne cohomology
2015	Jonathan Holland	Lecturuer, Rochester Institute of Technology	Causal Geometries
2015	Nan Jiang	Assistant Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology	Fast Calculation of Flow Ensembles
2015	Guoqing Liu	Quant Associate at Wells Fargo Securities	Singular Limit of an Energy Minimizing Problem
2015	Lifeng Liu	Vice President, Goldman Sachs	Two Non Linear Lattice Problems in Materials
2015	Marina Moraiti		Coupled Groundwater-Surface Water Flows Effect of Small Physical Parameters and Numerical Methods
2015	Pablo Ochoa	Professor, Universidad de Cuyo	Geometrical Problems in the Study of Prestrained Materials
2014	Ana Mamatelashvili	Tutor, University of Melbourne	Tukey Order on Sets of Compact Subjects of Topological Spaces
2014	Woden Kusner	Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University	Bounds on Packing Density via Slicing
2014	Jeromy Sivek	Assistant Professor, Temple University	Differentiability, Summability and Fixed Points in Banach Spaces
2014	Aziz Takhirov	Postdoctoral Associate, University of Alberta	Numerical Analysis of the Flows in the Pebble Bed Geometries
2014	Michaela Kubacki	Assistant Professor, Middlebury College	Higher-order, Strongly Stable Methods for Uncoupling Ground Water-surface Water Flow
2014	Jared Burns	Associate Professor of Mathematics, Seton Hill University	Continuity in Banach Spaces
2014	Krzysztof Kapulkin	Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario	Joyals Conjecture in Homotopy Type Theory
2014	Ken-Hsien Chuang	Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Cheng Kung University	Canonical Connections
2014	Mark Tronzo	Faculty, Geneva College & University of Pittsburgh	Analysis of a PDE Model for Necrotizing Enterocolitis
2014	Attou Miloua		Steady State Thin Film Equation with Van der Waals Force
2014	Xin Xiong	Manager, Customer Insights and Analytics, Walmart eCommerce	Numerical Analysis
2013	Tracy Stepien	Professor, University of Florida	Collective Cell Migration in Single and Dual Cell Layers
2013	Hyung Bo Shim		Indefinite String Structure
2013	Cheng Yu	Bing Instructor, The University of Texas-Austin	Some Analytical Issues for the Selected Complex Fluids Models
2013	Hoang Tran	Research Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Partitioned Methods for Coupled Fluid Flow Problems
2013	Thomas Everest	Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh	Fixed Points of Nonexpansive Maps on Closed, Bounded, COnvex sets in l¹
2013	Junming Huang	Vice President, Model Risk Management Enterprise Risk Architecture, Bank of New York Mellon	Hierarchical Structural Models of Portfolio Credit Risk
2012	Daniel Smith	Senior Software Engineer, Google	Mathematical Models of Branching Actin Networks: Results and Methods
2012	Merve Kovan-Bakan	Senior Data Scientist at Lyric	Complexity of Families of Compact sets in R^n
2012	Alexey Solovyev	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Utah	Formal Computations and Methods
2012	Zhoumin Liu	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Jyvaskyla	Conformal Mappings and Isomtric Immersions Under Second Otder Sobolev Regularity
2012	Christopher Jones	Senior Model Risk Analyst & VP, Regions Financial Corporation	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	Director, MBA Program & Assistant Professor, Point Park University	Fixed Point Properties for Co-like Spaces
2012	Bo Shi	Director, Wells Fargo	Structural Model for Credit Default in One and Higher Dimensions
2011	Ausha Abouzeid	Post Doctoral Fellow, Engineering Science & Applied Mathematics, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University	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	Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Frostburg State University	A Study of Bursting in the Pre-Botsinger Complex
2011	Emre Essenturk	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge	Generalized Phase Field Models with Microscope Potentials
2011	Gregory Francos	Epic Boost Solutions Analyst at Epic	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	Server Systems Engineer, Problem Solver, Epic	Iterated Regularization Methods for Solving Inverse Problems
2011	Ryan O'Grady	Associate Professor, Department Chair, Mathematics, LaRoche College	Rifing Rak Anlaysis of a Linear Integrate-and-Rre Neuronal Model
2011	Ian Price	Scientist, UPMC health plan	Mathematical Modeling of Chemical Signals in Inflammatory Pathways
2011	Susmita Sadhu	Associate Professor of Mathematics, Georgia College & State University	Existence and Asymtotic Analysis of Solutions of Singularily Perturbed Boundary Valve Problems
2011	Mark DeSantis	Associate Professor, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute	Dynamics of Asset Price Changes: Statistical and Differential Equations Models
2011	Alexander Sviridov	Senior Data Scientist, Asurion	Elliptic Equations in Graphs vir Stochastic Games
2011	Sergio Verduzco-Flores	PostDoc position, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology	Working Memory and Oscillations: The Implications on Neural Populations
2010	Yan Yu	Principal, Data Analytics-Credit Review, Capital One	Traveling Waves of a Nonlocal Conservation Law
2010	Lung K Tsui	Senior quantitative Manager, HSBC	Multi-name Credit Risk Modeling
2010	Danail Vassilev	Senior Scientist, First Light Fusion	Discretizations and Solvers for Coupling Stokes-Darcy Flows with Transport
2010	Evgeni Trofimov	Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh	Shocks Versus Kinks in a Discrete Model of Dispacive Phase Trasition
2010	Saishuai Tang	Strategist Structured Finance, citibank	Mathematical Modeling of Immune Response and Vocal Fold Inflammation
2010	Qiang Sun	Assistant Professor (tenure track), SUNY-Buffalo State	Analysis of Importance Sampling in Parameter Estimation of a Stochastic Volatility Model
2010	Alexander Lozovskiy	Software Developer, Bryan Research and Engineering	Numerical Analysis of the Aerodynamical Noise Prediction in Direct Numerical Simulation and Large Eddy Simulation
2010	Xianpeng Hu	Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong	Weak Solutions and Incompressible Limits of Multi-dimentional Magnetohydrodynamic Flows
2010	Ziqin Feng	Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Auburn University	Hilbert's 13th Problem
2010	Jeffrey Connors	Assistant Professor University of Connecticut.	Partitioned Time Discretization for Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction
2010	Onyeka Obi	Software developer engineer, Expedia, Inc	Results of Approximation and Measure on Mutational Spaces
2010	Benjamin Ganis	Research Mathematician, Institute for Computational Engineering and Scienes (ICES)	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	Associate Professor of Mathematics Indiana University of Pennsylvania	Scales of Function and Matrix Spaces
2009	Robert Berry	Technical Staff at Mist Systems	Lipschitz Estimates for Geodesics in the Heisenberg Group
2008	Evandro Manica	Professor of the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics & Member of Alzheimer's Team of the Instituto do Cérebro of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul	Effects of coupling and hetero geneity in the Pre-Botzinger complex cells using first return maps
2008	Chetan Balwe	Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali	Geometric motivic integration on Artin n-stacks
2008	Alexander Labovschii	Associate Professor, Michigan Technical University	Mathematical architecture for models of fluid flow phenomena
2008	Thomas Poerio	Principal, Univesco, LLC	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	Bioinformatics Data Scientist at Pfizer	Mathematical modeling of virus dynamics in Immunology
2007	Jerry Day	MSBA Candidate, University of Tennessee at Knoxville	On Banach function spaces and the fixed point property
2007	Judy Day	Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Tennessee at Knoxville	Mathematical approaches to modeling, understanding and controlling the acute inflammatory response to pathogen and endotoxin
2007	Yekaterina Epshteyn	Assocaite Professor, Department of Mathematics University of Utah	HP primal discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for two-phase flow in porous media
2007	Monika Neda	University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Associate Professor	Numerical analysis and phenomenology of homogeneous, isotropic turbulence generated by higher outer models of turbulence
2007	Bojana Pejic	Rates trader, banking book interest rate risk, Director UBS	On the uniqueness of Polish group topologies
2007	Dejun Xie	Associate professor, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University	Optimal prepayment strategy of mortgages
2007	Fatma Gurel	Upper School Math Teacher at Athens Academy	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, Professor	Helicity and physical fidelity in turbulence modeling
2006	Dana Mihai	Associate Teaching Professor, CMU	Mathematical aspects of twistor theory
2006	Jyotsna Diwakdar	Lecturer, Wayne State University, Mathematics	Nilpotent conjugacy classes of reductive p-adic lie algebras and defirsibility in Pas's language
2006	Ahmet Duran	Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University	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	Staff Biostatistician, Guardant Health	A sheaf theoretic approach to measure theory
2005	Lan Cheng	Associate Professor SUNY 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	Professor, Department of Mathematics, California State University at Sacramento.	On the regularity of P-harmonic functions in the Heisenberg group
2004	Adrian Argus Dunca	Faculty at University Politehnica of Bucharest	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	Associate Professor University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg	Multi-bumpsolutions of a one dimentional Wilson-Cowan type model
2004	Wesley Cross	Manager Analytics & Insights at First Insight, Inc	Principal value volumes of P-Adic rational polymedra
2004	Huseyin Merdan	Professor of Applied Mathematics, 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	Licensing excutive, DIT Hothouse.	Topology of function spaces
2004	Gregory Wisloski	Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania	Some characterizations of generalized metric spaces using the diagonal
2003	Yixin Guo	Associate Profesor, Department of Mathematics, Drexel	Existence and stability of standing pulses in neural networks
2003	Rodica Curtu	Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Iowa	Waves and oscillations in model neuronal networks
2003	Noel Heitmann	Associate 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	Associate Professor University of Sarjevo	Polynomials that commute with a given polynomial over finite fields
2002	Fu Zhang	Associate 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	Associate Professor of Mathematics, Seton Hill University	Fatou, Julia, and Mandelbrat sets for functions with non-integer exponent
2002	Husain Al-Attas	Chairman and Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University	Enhancing reliability of porous media flow through sensitity computation
2002	Yusaf Bilgin Altundas	Principal Research Scientist at Schlumberger-Doll Research	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	Director, Center of excellence in development of non-profit organizations, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals	Numerical modeling of reactive infiltration instabilities
2002	Ge Han	Associate Professor Towson University	American options on several assets
2002	Marius Buliga	Assistant Professor, Depeartment of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh Bradford	On the enumeration of colored spanning trees in graph
2002	Kimberly Burch	Associate Professor of Mathematics Indiana University of Pennsylvania	Matching equivalencies and chemical graph theory
2001	Davendria Kapadia	Kernel Developer, Algorithms and R&D at Wolfram Research	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	Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Qatar University	On the edge-chromatic numbers, the basis number, and the Hamiltonian decomposition of the graph products
2001	Congyu Gao	Software Engineer, Google	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

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