Tyrus Berry Assistant Professor, Mathematics Google Scholar Page Research Gate Page Department of Mathematical Sciences Exploratory Hall, 4452 Email: tberry (at) gmu.edu

Mentoring

Graduate Students

• Deanna Easley, Spring 2017 - current
  • Co-author: A Higher Order Unscented Transform.
  • Primary author: Matlab Code: A Higher Order Unscented Transform.
  • Spring 2017, MS Paper Presentation: Global Convergence of the Basic QR Algorithm on Hessenberg Matrices.
  • PhD Research: Higher order methods in data assimilation.
• Yemeen Ayub, Fall 2018 - current
  • MEGL Project: Applications of Diffusion Maps.
  • PhD Research: Dimensionality reduction, geometry of data, and connections to category theory
  
  
• Mahendra Panagoda, Graduated Summer 2021
  • Co-author: Convergence Analysis of the Rank-Restricted Soft SVD Algorithm.
  • PhD Thesis: Convergence Analysis and Bilevel Optimization Algorithms for Matrix Completion Problems.
• Andrew Draganov, Graduated Spring 2021
  • MS Thesis: Towards a Common Dimensionality Reduction Approach; Comparing PCA, tSNE, and UMAP through a Cohesive Framework
• Ryan Vaughn, Graduated Spring 2020
  • Co-author: Diffusion Maps for Embedded Manifolds with Boundary with Applications to PDEs
  • PhD Thesis: Diffusion Maps for Manifolds with Boundary.
  • MEGL Project: Applications of Diffusion Maps.
• Marilyn Vazquez, Graduated Spring 2018
  • PhD Thesis: Consistency of Density Based Clustering and its Application to Image Segmentation.

Undergraduate Students

• Andrew Kim, Spring 2020 - current
  • Preprint with D. Easley: Tensor Eigenvalues and Inequalities
  • Code: Two distinct indices, and Three distinct indices,
• Aneesh Malhotra, Fall 2017 - Spring 2019
  • MEGL Project: Applications of Diffusion Maps.
  • JMM 2019 Outstanding Poster Award! (awards list)
• Orton Babb, Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
  • MEGL Project: Applications of Diffusion Maps.
  • JMM 2019 Outstanding Poster Award! (awards list)
• Josh Westhoven, Summer 2018 - Fall 2019
  • EXTREEMS-QED + OSCAR Project: Generalizing Linear Discriminant Analysis to Continuous Output
  • Presented at SUMS Conference at JMU.
• Ruben Ascoli, Summer 2018 - current
  • Limitations of Richardson Extrapolation for Kernel Density Estimation SIURO, Volume 12, 2019 (pdf, arXiv)
  • Presented at SUMS Conference at JMU