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

• David Sayre (PhD)
  
• Kiefer Green (PhD)
  
• Hugo Diaz-Norambuena (PhD)
  
• A.J. Bailey (PhD), jointly with Mahamadi Warma
  

PostDocs

• Evelyn Herberg (August 2021 - current)
• Randy Price (September 2021 - current)

Formers Members

Graduate Students

• 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.
• Mahendra Panagoda (PhD), jointly with Tyrus Berry (Summer 2021)
  Title: Convergence Analysis and Bilevel Optimization Algorithms for Matrix Completion Problems

• John Maxwell MS-Math (Spring 2021)
  Title: Diametrical Risk Minimization
• 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.
• Tianyi Shi (visiting PhD student for summer 2019 from Cornell University)
  Title: Tensor Methods for Fractional PDEs.
• Igor Semyonov: MS-Math (Fall 2019), jointly with National Institute of Health (NIH)
  Position after MS: Research Scientist at Army Night Vision Lab.

• Dennis Marti: MS-Math (Spring 2019)
  Position after MS: Employed at Verizon.
• Justin Thorpe: MS-Math (Spring 2018)
  Position after MS: PhD student Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
• 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
• 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.

PostDocs

• Akwum Onwunta (August 2020 - August 2021)
  Position after GMU: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.
• Thomas Brown (May 2019 - July 2021)
• Johannes Pfefferer (October - December 2015)
  Position after GMU: Permanent research scientist at Technical University, Munich
• Pablo Venegas (August 2015 - January 2016)
  Position after GMU: Professor in Chile
• Enrique Otarola (15 August 2014 - 15 June 2015)
  Position after GMU: Professor in Chile

Undergraduate Students

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

• 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.
• 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
• Dangxing Chen (REU, summer 2013).
  Position after summer program: PhD Student in Mathematics department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Alexander Goldstone (URCM 2013-14).
  PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University.