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
     
    D. Sayre (Ph.D) July 2023           K. Green (Ph.D.) July 2024           F. Airaudo (Ph.D.) May 2025
   
                    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

• Felipe Perez (PhD)
• Animesh Jain (PhD)
• Umarkhon Rakhimov (PhD)
• Daniel Blauvelt (PhD)
• Yaw Owusu-Agyemang (PhD)

PostDocs

1. Sarswati Shah (January 2025 - current)
2. Keegan Kirk (September 2024 - current)
3. Rohit Khandelwal (August 2023 - current)

Formers Members

PostDocs

1. Sean Carney (July 2023 - July 2024)
   Position after GMU: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Union College, NY.
2. Madhu Gupta (September 2022 - August 2023)
   Position after GMU: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad, India.
3. Randy Price (September 2021 - May 2023)
   Position after GMU: Research Scientist at US Naval Research Lab Washington DC.
4. Evelyn Herberg (August 2021 - August 2022)
   Position after GMU: Postdoctoral research Scientist at Heidelberg University, Germany.
5. Akwum Onwunta (August 2020 - August 2021)
   Position after GMU: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.
6. Thomas Brown (May 2019 - July 2021)
   Position after GMU: Assistant Professor at Virginia State University.
7. Johannes Pfefferer (October - December 2015)
   Position after GMU: Permanent research scientist at Technical University, Munich
8. Pablo Venegas (August 2015 - January 2016)
   Position after GMU: Professor in Chile
9. Enrique Otarola (15 August 2014 - 15 June 2015)
   Position after GMU: Professor in Chile

PhD Students

1. Facundo N. Airaudo (PhD, May 2025) jointly with Rainald Loehner
   Winner of IDIA 2022 Predoctoral Fellowship.
   Title: Adjoint Based System Identification in Structures.
   Position after GMU: Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Lab.
2. Kiefer Green (PhD, July 2024)
   Title: Multigrid Algorithms and Software for PDEs and Optimization.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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

8. 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.
9. 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.

Other Graduate Students

1. Anna Lentz (Visiting PhD student from University of Würzburg, Germany, Feb-March 2025)
   Title: Nonconvex trust region methods.
2. Benjamín Venegas (Visiting student from University of Concepcion, Chile, Feb-March 2025)
   Title: Risk measures and Rockafellian relaxation.
3. Alonso Bustos (Visiting student from University of Concepcion, Chile, Feb-March 2025)
   Title: Risk measures and Rockafellian relaxation.
4. Madeline Horton (PhD from 2022-23) jointly with Mahamadi Warma
   Title: External variational inequalities.
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. John Maxwell MS-Math (Spring 2021)
   Title: Diametrical Risk Minimization
   Position after MS: Research Scientist at the Institute of Defense Analyses (IDA).
8. Tianyi Shi (visiting PhD student for summer 2019 from Cornell University)
   Title: Tensor Methods for Fractional PDEs.
9. Igor Semyonov: MS-Math (Fall 2019), jointly with National Institute of Health (NIH)
   Position after MS: Research Scientist at Army Night Vision Lab.

10. Dennis Marti: MS-Math (Spring 2019)
    Position after MS: Employed at Verizon.
11. Justin Thorpe: MS-Math (Spring 2018)
    Position after MS: PhD student Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
12. 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

Undergraduate Students

1. Sital Paudel (CMAI Intern, January - August 2025)
   Position after GMU: undergraduate student at Virginia Tech

2. Shrunal Pothagoni (CMAI Intern, May - August 2022)
   Position after graduating from GMU: PhD Student Mathematical Sciences, GMU.

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

4. 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.
5. 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
6. Dangxing Chen (REU, summer 2013).
   Position after summer program: PhD Student in Mathematics department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
7. Alexander Goldstone (URCM 2013-14).
   PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University.

High School Students

1. Vyaas Raj (Thomas Jefferson High School, Arlington, VA)