Harbir Antil

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   R. Khatri (Ph.D) May 2020           D. Verma (Ph.D) Aug. 2021         M. Panagoda (Ph.D) Aug. 2021      H. Diaz (Ph.D) May 2023            M. Alshehri (Ph.D) June 2023
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    D. Sayre (Ph.D) July 2023
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                    Group Meeting in May 2019                                         Group Meeting in August 2022                                                   Group Meeting in May 2023

Prospective Students and Postdocs

I am always looking for motivated students and postdocs to work with. Please contact me if there are any questions.

Current Members

Graduate Students
  • Umarkhon Rakhimov (PhD)
  • Daniel Blauvelt (PhD)
  • Yaw Owusu-Agyemang (PhD)
  • Facundo N. Airaudo (PhD, Physics) jointly with Rainald Loehner
    Winner of IDIA 2022 Predoctoral Fellowship
  • Kiefer Green (PhD)
  • William A Wautlet (PhD, Computational Data Science)
PostDocs
  1. Keegan Kirk (September 2024 - current)
  2. Rohit Khandelwal (August 2023 - current)
  3. Sean Carney (July 2023 - July 2024)

Formers Members

PostDocs
  1. Madhu Gupta (September 2022 - August 2023)
    Position after GMU: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad, India.
  2. Randy Price (September 2021 - May 2023)
    Position after GMU: Research Scientist at US Naval Research Lab Washington DC.
  3. Evelyn Herberg (August 2021 - August 2022)
    Position after GMU: Postdoctoral research Scientist at Heidelberg University, Germany.
  4. Akwum Onwunta (August 2020 - August 2021)
    Position after GMU: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.
  5. Thomas Brown (May 2019 - July 2021)
    Position after GMU: Assistant Professor at Virginia State University.
  6. Johannes Pfefferer (October - December 2015)
    Position after GMU: Permanent research scientist at Technical University, Munich
  7. Pablo Venegas (August 2015 - January 2016)
    Position after GMU: Professor in Chile
  8. Enrique Otarola (15 August 2014 - 15 June 2015)
    Position after GMU: Professor in Chile
Graduate Students
  1. David Sayre (PhD, July 2023)
    Title: Neuromorphic Imaging: Modeling, Bilevel Optimization, and Generalized Nash Equilibrium
    Position after GMU: Research Scientist at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Virginia.
  2. Madeline Horton (PhD from 2022-23) jointly with Mahamadi Warma
    Title: External variational inequalities.
  3. Mohammed Alshehri (PhD, June 2023)
    Title: Randomized Sketching for Dynamic Optimization and Inexact Adaptive Semismooth Newton Methods
    Position after GMU: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Najran University, Saudi Arabia.
  4. Hugo Diaz-Norambuena (PhD, May 2023 at University of Delaware)
    Title: Optimization and Numerical Analysis of PDE-Constrained Optimization Problems with Applications to Maxwell's Equations, Bounded Variation and Neural Networks
    Position after PhD: Postdoc at North Carolina State University.
  5. Ludwig Striet (PhD) Visiting Student from Freiburg, Germany (July - October 2022)
  6. A.J. Bailey (PhD) Summer student during 2021, jointly with Mahamadi Warma
  7. Deepanshu Verma PhD (Summer 2021)
    Title: Optimal Control Problems Constrained by Fractional PDEs and Applications to Deep Neural Networks
    Position after PhD: Distinguished Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University.
  8. Mahendra Panagoda (PhD), jointly with Tyrus Berry (Summer 2021)
    Title: Convergence Analysis and Bilevel Optimization Algorithms for Matrix Completion Problems
    Position after PhD: Actuarial at ACTEX Learning

  9. John Maxwell MS-Math (Spring 2021)
    Title: Diametrical Risk Minimization
    Position after MS: Research Scientist at the Institute of Defense Analyses (IDA).
  10. Ratna Khatri PhD (Spring 2020)
    Title: Role of Nonlocal Operators in Inverse and Deep Learning Problems
    Position after PhD: Research Scientist at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
  11. Tianyi Shi (visiting PhD student for summer 2019 from Cornell University)
    Title: Tensor Methods for Fractional PDEs.
  12. Igor Semyonov: MS-Math (Fall 2019), jointly with National Institute of Health (NIH)
    Position after MS: Research Scientist at Army Night Vision Lab.

  13. Dennis Marti: MS-Math (Spring 2019)
    Position after MS: Employed at Verizon.
  14. Justin Thorpe: MS-Math (Spring 2018)
    Position after MS: PhD student Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
  15. Tuan Le: MS-Math (Fall 2017)
    Title: PDE Constrained Optimization under Uncertainty
    Position after MS: PhD student at Systems Engineering and Operations Research, George Mason University
  16. Patrick Sodre PhD (Spring 2013) (Ricardo H. Nochetto, primary advisor)
    Title: Surface Tension Free Boundary Problems: Formulation, Optimal Control and Numerics
    Principal Scientist: Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Undergraduate Students
  1. Shrunal Pothagoni (CMAI Intern, May - August 2022)
    Position after graduating from GMU: PhD Student Mathematical Sciences, GMU.

  2. Brendan Gramp (Extreems, May 2018 - July 2019).
    Position after graduating from GMU: PhD Student Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park.

  3. Lucas Bouck (Extreems, January 2016 - May 2018).
    2018 NSF GRFP Fellow (most prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship)
    2017 Goldwater Honorable Mentions
    Position after graduating from GMU: PhD Student Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park.
  4. Mae Markowski (Extreems, May 2015 - May 2016).
    2019 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention (most prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship)
    Position after graduating from GMU: PhD Student Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University.
    NSF-GRFP Honorable Mentions
  5. Dangxing Chen (REU, summer 2013).
    Position after summer program: PhD Student in Mathematics department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  6. Alexander Goldstone (URCM 2013-14).
    PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University.