PhD Alumni
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PhD Alumni within the Department of Mathematics are listed below alphabetically (Last name, First name) and are listed by year.
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- Bhullar, Jasmine - Advisor: TBA. First position:TBA
                                       
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- Chen, Menzi - TBA: TBA. First position: TBA
                                       
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- Chen, Yongchang - TBA: TBA. First position: TBA
                                       
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- Fularczyk, Nickolas - Advisor:TBA. First position:TBA
                                       
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- Hemenway, Gregory - Advisor: Vaughn Climenhaga. First position:TBA
                                       
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- Huang, Yewen - Advisor: TBA. First position:TBA
                                       
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- Kim, Jae Youn - Advisor: TBA. First position:TBA
                                       
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- May, Jennifer - Advisor: TBA. First position:TBA
                                       
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- Panagoloulous, Nikolaos - Advisor: TBA. First position:TBA
                                       
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- Subedi, Manoj - Advisor: TBA. First position:TBA
                                       
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- Sun, Chunmei - Advisor: TBA. First position:TBA
                                       
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- Thacker, Stephen - Advisor: TBA. First position:TBA
                                       
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- Abouserie, Ahmed Reda - Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann.
- Batista, Michael - Advisor: Mikhail Perepelitsa
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Mathematical Modeling of Bacterial Motion with Stochastic Reversals
 
- Chen, Huayan - Advisor: Alan Haynes. First position: Postdoctoral Associate, Molecular and Human
                                       Genetics, BCM
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Topics in Diophantine Approximation
 
- Cortez, Jayson - Advisor: TBA. First position: Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines at Los Bańos
- Dang, Thuyen - Advisor: Yuliya Gorb. First position: Postdoc, University of Chicago
- Das, Akshat - Advisor: Alan Haynes. First position: Visiting Asst. Professor, University of Connecticut
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Diophantine Approximation in p-adic Solenoids
 
- Ghasemi, Mahmood - Advisor: Robert Azencott. First position: Postdoc, MD Anderson Cancer Research
                                       Center
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Gene Transcription Modeling at the Cell Population Level
 
- Stickler, Megan - Advisor: Kresimir Josic. First position: Assistant Professor, Carthage College
- Su, Yingxue - Advisor: Robert Azencott.
- Sun, Qi - Advisors: Maxim Olshanskii, Annalisa Quaini. First position: Postdoc, Math. Dept. of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Zhiliakov, Alexander - Advisor: Maxim Olshanskii. First position: Senior Software Engineer at Mathworks
- Amrutam, Tattwamasi - Advisor: Mehrdad Kalantar. First position: Ben-Gurion University
                                       of the Negev
                                       
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- Burton, Jonathan - Advisor: TBA. First position: TBA
                                       
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- Chen, Xiaoqian - Advisor: Ilya Timofeyev. First position: Crabel Capital Management
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Effective Data-Driven Models for Chaotic and Turbulent Dynamics
 
- Duvall, Jason - Advisor: TBA. First position: TBA
                                       
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- Egarguin, Neil Jerome - Advisor: TBA. First position: TBA
                                       
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- He, Yan - Advisor: Min Ru. First position: TBA
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Height inequality from different aspects
 
- Li, Ang - Advisor:Tsorng-Whay Pan. First position: Lane College
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Methods and Modeling for Simulating the Motion of Self-propelled Swimmer in Incompressible Viscous Fluids
 
- Lin, Weiqiang - Advisor: TBA. First position: TBA
                                       
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- Stout, Edward - Advisor: William Ott. First position: TBA
                                       
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- Assi, Sabrine - Advisor: TBA
- Akil, Alan - Advisor: Kresimir Josic
- Bedekar, Prajakta - Advisor: Mikhail Perepelitsa. First Position: The Johns Hopkins University
- Chehade, Sarah - Advisor: Anna Vershynina
- Chen, Xi - Advisor: Ilya Timofeyev
- Domel-White, Dylan - Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann. First position: Vanderbilt University
- Molina, Wilfredo - Advisor: Demetrio Labate. First Position: Capital Group
- Nguyen, Khanh (Kate) - Advisor:TBA.  First Position: Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH
                                       
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- Pahari, Basanta - Advisor: Demetrio Labate. First Position: Florida A&M/ Florida State University
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Smooth Projections and Optimally Sparse Representation of Cartoon-like Cylindrical Solids
 
- Rodriguez, Ayllon - Advisor:TBA
- Safaripoorfatide, Mohamadkazem - Advisor: TBA.  First Position: Texas A&M Health Science
                                       Center
                                       
                                       - Thesis:TBA
 
- Sarmadi, Saeed - Advisor:TBA
- Stanaityte, Rita - Advisor:TBA
- Su, Yaofeng - Advisor: Andrew Török
- Tepsan, Worawit - Advisor: David Blecher
- Zhang, Xiao - Advisor:TBA
- Bicol, Kayla - Advisor: Annalisa Quaini. First Position: MIT
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Advances in Algorithms for Atmospheric Sciences
 
- Carney, Megan - Advisor: Matthew Nicol.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: An Investigation of the Statistical Properties of Certain Chaotic Dynamical Systems Through Extremes and Recurrence: A Theoretical and Applied Approach
 
- Cinar, Selahittin - Advisor: Kresimir Josic.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Inference Methods for Synthetic Gene Regulatory Networks
 
- Ding, Junyu - Advisor: Wenjiang Fu.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A Novel Statistical Method to Examine the Cancer Disparities and the Effectiveness of Cancer Intervention
 
- Gao, Kuikui - Advisor: Wenjiang Fu.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Statistical Inference in Age Period and Cohort models
 
- Gul, Nuray - Advisor: Shanyu Ji.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: On Maps from N- Ball into (3n-2)-Ball
 
- Haque, Mozahid - Advisor: Mark Tomforde. First position: MetOx Technologies, Inc.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Endomorphisms of Leavitt Path Algebras
 
- Hekmati, Rasoul - Advisor: Robert Azencott. First position: Baylor College of Medicine
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Machine Learning to Analyze fMRI Brain Activity Recordings
 
- Karantzas, Nikolaos - Advisor: Emanuel Papadakis. First position: Baylor College of
                                       Medicine
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Compactly Supported Frame Wavelets and Applications
 
- Kim, Daewa - Advisor: Annalisa Quaini.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A Kinetic Theory Approach to Pedestrian Motion and Onset of Disease Spreading
 
- Nguyen, Duong - Advisor: William Ott.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Statistical Properties of High Dimensional Non-Stationary Dynamical Systems
 
- Rathinakumar, Krithika - Advisor: Annalisa Quaini.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A Microscopic Approach to Pedestrian Dynamics and the Onset of Disease Spreading
 
- Walden, Richard - Advisor: Min Ru.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Uniqueness Results for a Class of Holomorphic Mappings on a Complex Disc
 
- Wang, Zhenhua - Advisor: David Blecher.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Theory of Jordan Operator Algebras and Operator * - Algebras
 
- Zhang, Peng - Advisor: Robert Azencott.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Diffeomorphic Shape Matching Based on an Operator Splitting Method
 
- Bhandari, Chandi - Advisor: Ronald Hoppe.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Simulation of 4th Order Total Variation Flow Problem by Using C0-IPDG Method
 
- Lopez, Juan - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty. First position: USAA
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Well-posedness for Weak Solutions of Axisymmetric Div-Curl Systems
 
- Mitsakos, Nikolaos - Advisor: Manos Papadakis. First position: Anadarko Petroleum
                                       Corporation
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Virtual Multimodal Object Detection and Classification with Deep CNNs
 
- Muravina, Viktoria - Advisor: Robert Azencott. First position: Zacks Investment Research
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Statistical Analysis of Biomedical Data
 
- Radillo, Adrian Ernesto - Advisor: Kresimir Josic. First position: University of Pennsylvania
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Optimal Decision Making Models In Changing Environments
 
- Saha, Dipanwita - Advisor: Robert Azencott. First position: Cubic Transportation Systems
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Parameter Estimation of the Heston Volatility SDE Under the Non-Gaussian Regime
 
- Winkle, James - Advisor: Kresimir Josic. First position: Rice University
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Mechanical Constraint and Cell Shape Interaction Modeling of Bacterial Growth in Microfluidic Devices
 
- Bearden, Alex - Advisor: David Blecher. First position: Tenure-Track position, UT Tyler
- Cheng, Wanli - Advisor: Maxim Olshanski. First position: Monsanto
- Chiu, Shang-Huan - Advisor: Tsorng-Whay Pan
- Geiger, Brett - Advisor: Robert Azencott. First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Southern Methodist University
- Gul, Ugur - Advisor: Min Ru. First position: Assistant Professor, Cankiri Karatekin University, Turkey
- Guo, Aixia - Advisor: Tsorng-Whay Pan. Co-Advisor: Jiwen He
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Simulation and Modeling of Particle Motions in 3D Stokes Flow
 
- Kayasandik, Cihan - Advisor: Demetrio Labate. First position: Postdoc, University of Houston
- Kurzanova, Daria - Advisor: Yulya Gorb.
- Liu, Changan - Advisor: Kresimir Josic
- Mills, Charles - Advisor: Min Ru. First Position: Lecturer, UT Austin
                                       
                                       - Thesis: An Improved Defect Relation for Holomorphic Curves in Projective Varieties
 
- Ouegnin, François- Advisor: Ilya Timofeyev
- Platt, Eric - Advisor: Daniel Onofrei. First position: Postdoc, University of Houston
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Active Manipulation of Acoustic Fields and Applications
 
- Poll, Daniel - Advisor: Zachary Kilpatrick. First position: NSF-RTG funded postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University
- Sarkisov, Sergey - Advisor: Robert Azencott.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Parameters Estimation for Stochastic Genetic Evolution of Asexual Populations
 
- Stolarczyk, Simon - Advisor: Kresimir Josic.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Decision Making in Social Networks
 
- Suri, Nishant - Advisor: Mark Tomforde.
- West, James - Advisor: Mark Tomforde. First position: Instructional Assistant Professor,
                                       University of Houston
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Two Problems In Graph Algebras and Dynamical Systems
 
- Williams, Cameron - Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: From Generalized Fourier Transforms to Coupled Supersymmetry
 
- Zhang, Peixin - Advisor: Wenjiang Fu.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A Comprehensive Method for Integrated (Realized) Volatility Estimation
 
- Agrawal, Akshay - Advisor: Ronald W. Hoppe.
- Alsheikh, Dina Naman A - Advisor: Ronald W. Hoppe.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: The Hypercircle Method and an Equilibrated a Posteriori Error Estimator for Discontinuous Galerkin Approximations of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems on Simplicial Meshes
 
- Alvarez, Angelynn - Advisor: Gordon Heier. First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
- Chaturvedi, Ananya - Advisor: Gordon Heier.
- Chowdhury, Tasadduk - Advisor: Robert Azencott. First position: Quantitative Associate for Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Huang, Shujiao - Advisor: Wenjiang Fu.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A Smoothing Model and Its Asymptotics with Applications to Health Studies and Social Research
 
- Hussein, Saud - Advisor: Min Ru. First position: Postdoc, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
- Kumar, Rahul - Advisor: Roland Glowinski.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: On the Control of Systems Modelled by Partial Differential Equations
 
- Leonhard, Nicole - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Correlation Minimizing Frames
 
- Liao, Hungzen - Advisor: Min Ru and Gordon Heier. First position: Austin Waldorf School.
- Ng, Wai Hin - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen.
- Park, Jungim - Advisor: Min Ru. First position: Lecturer, Lone Star College
- Schoneman, Justin - Advisor: Robert Azencott.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Stochastic Models for Genetic Evolution of Bacterial Populations
 
- Weber, Thomas - Advisor: William Ott.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Optimization of Plane Wave Directions in Plane Wave Discontinuous Galerkin Methods For the Helmholtz Equation
 
- Zheng, Da - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen.
- Hammen, Nathaniel - Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann. First position: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Airforce Institute of Technology.
- Hass, John - Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann. First position: Post-doc at University of Missouri.
- Liu, Zhuo - Advisor: Yuri Kuznetsov. First position: Quant/Modeling Analyst at KeyBank,
                                       Cleveland.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Mixed Finite Element Methods with Piece-Wise Constant Fluxes.
 
- Maxwell, Nicholas - Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann. First position: Airtech Electronics in Raleigh, NC.
- Ortiz, Carlos - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen. First position: Post-doc, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
- Ozcan, Burcin - Advisor: Manos Papadakis.
- Preston, Benjamin - Advisor: Edward Kao. First position: USAA
- Whalen, Tristan - Advisor: Mark Tomforde. First position: Lecturer, University of Houston and University of Texas at Dallas.
- Zhang, Licheng - Advisor: Matthew Nicol. First position: CGGVeritas, Houston.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Some statistical properties of chaotic dynamical systems: non-stationary central limit theorems and extreme value theory.
 
- Jose Manuel Lopez - Advisor: Kresimir Josic. First position: Software Developer at iOffice.
- Andrews, Jared - Advisor: Shanyu Ji. First position: Data Scientist at Havas Edge,
                                       San Diego.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A New Gap Theorem Result For Proper Holomorphic Mappings Between Complex Balls.
 
- Cho, Manki - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty. First position: Post-doc, University of Houston.
- Freeman, Jeff - Advisor: Robert Azencott. First position: Schlumberger Tech Co.
- Guo, Wei - Advisor: Jingmei Qiu. First position: Post-doc Fellow, Michigan State University.
- Jegdic, Ilija - Advisor: Richard Sanders. First position: Adjunct Professor, Lone Star College
- Lee, Brandon - Advisor: Shanyu Ji. First position: Clements High School, Sugar Land.
- Mabuza, Sibusiso - Advisor: Suncica Canic. First position: Postdoctoral Research Scientist,
                                       University of Wuerzburg · Institut für Mathematik.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Modeling, Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Reactive Solute Transport Problems in Moving Domains.
 
- Meklachi, Taoufik - Advisor: Daniel Onofrei. First position: Visiting Assistant Professor
                                       in Drexel University.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: New Insights on Quasistatic and Acoustic Cloaking.
 
- Nguyen, Trung - Advisor: Jiwen He.
- Niu, Xiting - Advisors: Tsorng-Whay Pan and Roland Glowinski.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: The Dynamics of Red Blood Cell Under the Effect of Shape Memory
 
- Upadhyay, Sanat - Advisor: Manos Papadakis.  First position: Post-Doctoral Research
                                       Fellow at Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics at UH.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Extraction and Normalization of Directional Characteristics of Images and Textures Using Multiscale Transforms.
 
- Xu, Jielin - Advisor: Yuri Kuznetsov.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Mixed Finite Element Method on Hexahedral Meshes.
 
- Zhang, Lan - Advisor: Suncica Canic. First position: Calculations Specialist at Emerson
                                       Process Management.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Simulation Of Two-phase Flow Using The Level Set Approach.
 
- Zhao, Shihai - Advisor: Tsorng-Whay Pan.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Simulation of Red Blood Cells in Capillaries
 
- Aggarwal, Aanchal - Advisor: Robert Azencott. First position: IBM Research Center,
                                       NY.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Large Deviations Approach for Stochastic Genetic Evolution
 
- Bhardwaj, Manisha - Advisor: Kresimir Josic. First position: Geospatial Analytics Scientist at Monsanto, Missouri.
- Kong, Ao - Advisor: Robert Azencott.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Mass Spectrometry Data Mining for Cancer Detection.
 
- Liu, Zhiheng - Advisor: Ronald W. Hoppe. First position: CGGVeritas, Houston.
- Liu, Puchen - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty.
- Mohapatra, Anushaya - Advisor: William Ott.
- Qin, Yue - Advisor: Jiwen He, Robert Azencott.
- Rivas, Mauricio - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty.
- Royce, Maureen - Advisor: David Blecher.
- Sharma, Vandana - Advisor: Jeff Morgan
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Global Existence of Solutions to Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Mass Transport Type Boundary Conditions.
 
- Shi, Lingling - Advisor: Tsorng-Whay Pan. First position: Post-doc, University of
                                       Houston
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical simulation of cell motion in microchannels
 
- Trousdale, James - Advisor: Kresimir Josic. First position: CGGVeritas, Houston.
- Yu, Yao - Advisor: Tsorng-Whay Pan. First position: CGGVeritas, Houston.
- Bukac, Martina - Advisor: Suncica Canic. Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics at University of Notre Dame.
- Han, Qi - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty. First position: Post-doc, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
- Jain, Ankita - Advisor: Ilya Timofeyev. Current position: Assistant Professors in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics at University of Notre Dame.
- Liao, Qingqing - Advisor: D. Kouri. First position: Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Wavelet Approaches to Seismic Data Analysis
 
- Negi, Pooran - Advisor: Demetrio Labate. First position: Post-doc, University of Houston.
- Sen, Anando - Advisor: Robert Azencott and Demetrio Labate. First position: Post-doc, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston.
- Singh, Pankaj - Advisor: Bernhard Bodmann. First position: Post-doc, University of Houston.
 
- Tumel, Filiz - Advisor: Andrew Torok. First position: North American Univeristy.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Random walks on a lattice with deterministic local dynamic.
 
- Zeleke, Kidist - Advisor: Ronald Hoppe. First position: Post-doc, University of Houston.
- Zhan, Cheng - Advisor: Andrew Torok and Danijela Damjanovic. First position: Seismic
                                       Imager at CGGVeritas.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Smooth Infinitesimal Rigidity for Higher Rank Partially Hyperbolic Action on Step-2 Nilmanifolds
 
- Agarwal, Nikita - Advisor: Michael Field. First position: Assistant Professor, IISER Bhopal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)
- Almus, Melahat - Advisor: David Blecher. First position: Lecturer, University of Houston.
- Elwood, Helen - Advisor: Bernhard G. Bodmann
- Jajoo, Aarti - Advisor: Ronald Hoppe, Robert Azencott. First position: Post-doc, University of Houston.
- Kavruk, Ali - Advisor: Vern Paulsen. First position: Post-doc, University of Houston.
- Kikinzon , Evgeny - Advisor: Yuri Kuznetsov. First position: Post-doc, University of Houston.
- Kumar, Ajit -  Advisor: Kresimir Josic. First position: Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
                                       Foundation,
 the math department of Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi, India.
- Li, Daquian - Advisor: Ronald W. Hoppe
- Prokopenko, Andrey - Advisor: Yuri Kuznetsov. First position: ExxonMobil contract.
- Rosenbaum, Robert - Advisor: Kresimir Josic. Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics at University of Notre Dame.
- Sehgal, Vasudha - Advisor: Robert Azencott
- Sharma, Natasha - Advisor: Ronald W.Hoppe. First position: Post-doc, University of Houston.
- Sogome, Suraizou - Advisor: Min Ru. First position: HHC, Northwest College.
- Beri, Arjun - Advisor: Ilya Timofeyev, Robert Azencott. First position: Post-doc at the University of Houston.
- Gupta, Chinmaya - Advisor: M. Nicol. First position: Assistant Professor (NTT) of Mathematics at University of Southern California
- Gadhyan, Yutheeka - Advisor: Robert Azencott, Roland Glowinski. First position: Post-doc at the University of Houston.
- Lata, Sneh - Advisor: Vern Paulsen. First position: Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
                                       Foundation,
 the math department of Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi, India.
- Li, Yipeng - Advisor: Robert Azencott
- Luo, Zijun - Advisor: Robert Azencott. First position: Post-doc at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
- Mittal, Meghna - Advisor: Vern Paulsen. First position: Visiting Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon
- Singh, Preeti - Advisor: Vern Paulsen. First position: Visiting Associate Professor, Lone Star College, CyFair.
- Wang, Muhu - Advisor: Edward Kao. First position: Senior Quantitative Rsearcher at Duke Energy, Cinninati, Ohio.
- Antil, Harbir - Advisor: Ronald Hoppe. First position: Post-doc at Rice University.
- Barlas, Mirza Nofil - Advisor: Ilya Timofeyev. First position: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Keystone College.
- Jain, Saurabh - PhD, Advisor: Manos Papadakis. First position: Post-doc at the University of Houston.
- Kim, Taebeom - Advisor: Suncica Canic.
- Li, Huifang - Advisor: Ronald Hoppe.
- Nimsaila, Kawin - Advisor: Ilya Timofeyev.
- Sharma, Sonia - Advisor: David Blecher. First position: Lecturer, University of Houston.
- Yavich, Nikolay - Advisor: Yuri Kuznetsov. First position: EMMET, Senior Research
                                       Scientist.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Multilevel preconditioners for strongly anisotropic problems.
 
- Xhabli, Blerina - Advisor: Vern Paulsen. First position: Lecturer, University of Houston.
- Branton, Sheena - Advisor: Matthew Nicol. First position: Lecturer, University of Houston.
- Dulock, Matthew - Advisor: Min Ru. First position: Post-doc, Fields Institute.
- Filipski, Natasha -Advisor: Martin Golubitsky.
- Kashyap, Upasana - Advisor: David Blecher. position: Assistant professor at The Citadel-The Military College of South Carolina.
- Linsenmann, Christopher - Advisor: Ronald W. Hoppe. First position: Post-doc, Institute
                                       of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Germany.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Adaptive Multilevel-Based Shape Optimization for Stationary Stokes Flow by Path-Following Primal-Dual Interior Point Methods
 
- Kouam, Cedric - Advisor: Edward Kao. First position: Horizon Wind Energy, Houston.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Pricing Spread Options Under Stochastic Volatility.
 
- Larson, Craig - Advisors: Klaus Kaiser & Ermelinda Delavina. Current position: Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University.
- Pons, Victoria - Advisor: Alexandre Caboussat and Roland Glowinski.
- Raghupathi, Mrinal - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen. First position: Assistant Professor (NTT), Vanderbilt University.
- Wang, Tong - Advisor: Tsorng-Whay Pan and Roland Glowinski, First position: Post-doc, Texas A&M University.
- Xie, Weiwei - Advisor: Edward Kao. First position: Visiting Professor, University of Houston.
2007
- Barbara Gucciardi - Advisor: Martin Golubitsky. First position: Instructor, St. Thomas University
- Gvozdev, V - Adviosr: Yuri Kutnezsov. First position: Microsoft
- Ha Nguyen - Advisor: Andrew Török.
- Hao, Jian - Advisor: Tsorng-Whay Pan and Roland Glowinski. First position: Post-doc, University of Houston.
- Liu, Y - Advisor: Min Ru. First position: dGB-USA Earth Science.
- Patel, Swabhimita - Advisor: Jeff Morgan. First position: Saracen Energy.
2006
- Abdulbaki, Soha - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen . First position: Instructor, St. Thomas University.
- Hay, Damon - Advisor: David Blecher. First position: University of North Florida.
- Kalra, Deepti - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen. First position: Wachovia bank.
- Flagg, Mary - Advisor: Jutta Hausen. First position: Lecturer, University of Houston.
- Foss, Frederick - Advisor: Roland Glowinski. First position: Terralliance Technologies, Inc.
- Pacull, François - Advisor: Marc Garbey. First position: CFD Developer, FLUOREM.
- Svyatskiy, Daniil - Advisor: Yuri Kutnezsov. First position: Post-doc, Los Alamos Natiomal Lab.
- Wang, Yunjiao, - Advisor: Martin Golubitsky. First position: Post-doc, U. Manchester, UK.
- Xu, Dekang - Advisor: Shanyu Ji. First position: CGGVeritas, Houston.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Proper Holomorphic Mappings Between Balls.
 
2005
- Almeida Leite, Maria Da - Advisor: Martin Golubitsky. First position: Post-doctoral Researcher, Purdue University.
- Lapin, Serguei - Advisor: Roland Glowinski. First position: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Houston.
- Muhm, Philip - Advisor: Klaus Kaiser. IT development manager, Boeing Company
- Myers, Richard - Advisor: Jiwen He. First position: St. Thomas University
- Nanda, Arati - Advisor: Roland Glowinski. First position: Instructor, University of Houston.
2004
- Ryan Pepper - Advisor: Siemion Fajtlowicz. First position: Post-doctoral research, Texas A & M University at Galveston.
- Philip Jacobs - Advisor: Mike Field. First position: San Antonio College.
- Oleg Boiarkine - Advisor: Yuri Kuznetsov. First position: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Houston.
- Andrey Martynenko - Advisor: Yuri Kuznetsov and William Fitzgibbon. The first position: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Houston.
2003
- Ahmed-Zaid, Ben - Advisor: Roland Glowinski. First position: Lecturer, University of Houston.
- Bokil, Vrushali - Advisor: Roland Glowinski. First position: Post-doctoral Researcher,
                                       North Carolina State University.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Computational Methods for Wave Propagation Problems on Unbounded Domains.
 
- Dyadechko, Vadim - Advisor: Yuri Kuznetsov. First position: Post-doctoral research,
                                       LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory).
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Geometrically Adapted Meshes and Iterative Solvers for Elliptic Problems.
 
- Holmes, Roderick - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen. First position: Visiting Professor, Texas Southern University.
- Kaneda, Masayoshi - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen. First position: Post-doctoral research,
                                       University of California-Irvine.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Multipliers and Algebrizations of Operator Spaces.
 
- Yi, Eunjeong  - Advisors: Min Ru and Shanyu Ji. First position: Texas A & M University
                                       at Galveston.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Nevanlinanna Theory and Iteration of Rational Maps.
 
2002
- Alford, John G. - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty. First position: Tulane University.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Computation of Bifurcating Rotating Waves for the Fitz-Hugh Nagumo Equations on Circular Domains of One and Two Dimensions.
 
- Foster, Sylvia Martina - Advisor: Johnny Johnson. First position: Visiting Professor,
                                       University of Houston.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: The Asymptotic and Integral Closures of Elements in a Multiplicative Lattice.
 
- Ladipo, Kehinde Omobola -  Advisor: Roland Glowinski.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A Wave Equation Approach to Numerical Simulations of Natural Convention in Rectangular Enclosures.
 
- Lipnikov, Konstantin - Advisor: Yuri Kuznetsov. The first job: Post-doctoral research,
                                       LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory).
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Methods for the Biot Model in Poroelsaticty.
 
2000
- Berry, Robert  - Advisor: William Fitzgibbon.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Spatio-temporially Dependent Models for the Spread of Infectious Disease.
 
- Datta, Sanjay - Advisor: Roland Glowinski.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Some Results On the Effect of the Trapezoidal Rule in Finite Element Computation.
 
- Solazzo, James - Advisor: Vern Pauslen. First position: Post-doctoral Researcher,
                                       University of Georgia.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Interpolartion and Computability.
 
- Tecarro, Edwin - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty. First position: Associate Professor, the
                                       University of Houston (Downtown).
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Qualitative Analysis of a Model of the Mammalian Cell Cycle's G1 Phase.
 
1999
- Qawasmi, Ahmad - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty. Last known position: UAE University, Dubai. 
 Thesis: Regularity for the Hodge-Weyl Decomposition.
1998
- Buono, Pietro-Luciano - Advisor: Martin Golubitsky. First position: University of
                                       Montreal.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A Model of Central Pattern Generators for Quadruped Locomotion.
 
- Walker, Julie Satitpunwaycha - Advisor: Dennison Brown.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Thread Generated Idemponent Topological Semigroups on N-cells.
 
- Wu, Suming - Advisor: Ridgway Scott.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Steady-state Simulation and Fuel Cost Minimization of Gas Pipeline Networks.
 
1997
- Abraham, Ross Peder  - Advisor: Jutta Hausen.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Automorphism Groups of Abelian P-groups.
 
- Khoury, Rajia Nicolas - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen. First position: University of Houston-Downtown
                                       
                                       - Thesis:Closest Matrices In the Space of Doubly Stochastic Matrices.
 
- De La Vina, Ermelinda  - Advisor: Siemion Fajtlowicz. First position: University of
                                       Houston-Downtown.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Ramseyan Properties and Conjectures of Graffiti.
 
- Zhang , Zhuangzhi - Advisor: Barbara Keyfitz. First position: LicEnergy, Houston.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: The Existence and Decay of Solutions of A Class of Non-strictly Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws
 
- Zhai , Canfang - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty. First position: Elliptus Technologies Inc.,
                                       Richmond, Virginia.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Computation of Rotating Wave Solutions of Reaction Diffusion Systems.
 
1996
- Benningfield, Kirk - Advisor: Dennison Brown. Thesis: Uniquely Divisible Topological Semigroups.
- Ferguson, Sarah H.  - Advisor: Vern Paulsen. First position: Wayne State University.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Ext, Analytic Kernels And Operator Ranges.
 
- Grillis, David B. -  Advisor: Martin Golubitsky. First position: Naval Research Labs.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Coupled Cell Systems And Symmetry.
 
- Juarez-Valencia, Lorenzo H. - Advisor: Ridgway Scott. First position: Departamento
                                       de Matematicas, UAM-I, Mexico D.F.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Simulation Of Time-Dependent Viscous Flows In Complex Geometries.
 
- Ruan, Guohua  - Advisor: Roland Glowinski. First position: Maurer Engineering, Inc.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Solutions Of A Type Of Slightly Compressible Flow.
 
- Sanchez-Bernabe, Francisco  - Advisor: Roland Glowinski. First position: Departamento
                                       de Matematicas, UAM-I, Mexico D.F.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: On Some Splitting Methods For The Numerical Solution Of The Navier Stokes Equation.
 
- Zafiris, Vasilis G.  - Advisor: Roland Glowinski. First position: University of Houston-Downtown.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Constructs On Manifolds Applied To Grid Generation.
 
1995
- Carthel, Crag A. - Advisor: Roland Glowinski.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Methods For Some Exact And Approximate Controllability Problems For The Heat Equation.
 
- Hou, Chuan-Ze - Advisor: Martin Golubitsky.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Symmetry Breaking And Heteroclinic Cycles.
 
- Singer, Jurgen K. - Advisor: Roland Glowinski. First position: Post-doc at UT-Austin.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: The Parallel Fast Multipole Method In Molecular Dynamics.
 
- Xie, Dexuan - Advisor: Ridgway Scott. Last known position: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: New Parallel Iteration Methods, New Nonlinear Multigrid Analysis, And Application In Computational Chemistry
 
- Zhang, Chun - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Representation And Geometry Of Operator Spaces.
 
1994
- Burghduff, John Brian - Advisor: Richard Sinkhorn.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Permanents of doubly stochastic matrices with zero main diagonal
 
- Luo, Yongping - Advisor: Andrew Lelek.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Suslinian And Weakly Suslinian Continua
 
- Wang, Zhongde- Advisor: Richard Sanders.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: High Order TVD Schemes For The Approximation Of Hyperbolic Systems Of Conservation Laws.
 
1993
- Roesmer, Christopher Josef  - Advisor: Klaus Kaiser.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: An Application Of Nonstandard Analysis To Dempster-Shafer Theory.
 
1992
- Chu, Che-Chen - Advisor: V. Paulsen. First position: Nat'l Taiwan Police Academy.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Finite Dimensional Representations Of Function Algebra.
 
- Jia, Wenyao - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Iterative Methods For The Hartree And Hartree-Fock Eighnproblems.
 
- Nasser, Mahmoud G. - Advisor: Roland Glowinski.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Methods For Multibody Elastic Systems And Contact Problems.
 
- Vinod, Vaidyanath - Advisor: Barbara Keyfitz. First position: Instructor, University
                                       of New Orlean.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Structural Stability Of Riemann Solutions For A Multiphase Jinematic Conservation Law Model That Changes Type.
 
1991
- Cardan, David - Advisor: Richard Sinkhorn.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Concerning Hypernormal Approximation Of Doubly Stochastic Matrices.
 
- Tiballi, Terry Richard -  Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Symmetric Orthogonalization Of Vectors In Hilbert Space. First position: SUNY College at Oswego.
 
1990
- Chen , Shui-Tian - Advisor: Siemion Fajtlowicz.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: On Selected Conjectures Of Graffiti.
 
- Dionne, Benoit - Advisor: Martin Golubitsky. First position: University of Montreal.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Spatially Peridic Patterns In Two And Three Dimensions.
 
1989
- Cook, Michael William - Advisor: W.T. Ingram.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Periodic Points For Mappings Of The Circle And Other Locally Connected Continua.
 
- Insall, Jr, Eugene M. -  Advisor: Klaus Kaiser. Current position: Associate Professor
                                       at University of Missouri, Rolla.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Nonstandard Methods And Finiteness Conditions In Algebra.
 
- Waller, William Alfred, - Advisor: Siemion Fajtlowicz. First position: University
                                       of Houston-Downtown.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Average Distance In Graphs With Prescribed Order And Independence Number.
 
- Krupa, Martin - Advisor: Martin Golubitsky. First position: New Mexico State University.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Bifurcations of Critical Group Orbits.
 
- Lan, Shaw-Ping  - Advisors: Henry Decell/Sinkhorn.
                                       
                                       - Thesis:The Semigroup Of Real Stochastic Matrices And Generalized Inversion.
 
- De Loura, Luís Camilo do Canto - Advisor: Roland Glowinski.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Iterative Methods For The Hertree Equation Of Helium-Like System.
 
- Nicolas-Carrizosa, Alfredo - Advisor: Roland Glowinski.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Numerical Aspects Of Some Time Dependent Partial Diffrential Equations Problems.
 
- Taylor, Monty B. - Advisor: Johnny Johnson.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Filtration Transforms Of Integral, Commutative CL-Monoids Lattice Modules.
 
- Waggoner, Shelia Seng - Advisor: William Fitzgibbn.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Global Existences For Solutions Of Semilinear And Quasilinear Parabolic Systems Of Partial Differential Equations.
 
1987
- Gehrke, Mai - Advisor: Klaus Kaiser. Current position: Professor at New Mexico State
                                       University.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: The Order Structure of Stone Spaces and the T_D-Axiom.
 
- Torres, Raul Ernesto Gonzalez - Advisor: Dennison Brown.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A Geometric Study of Certain Stochastic Semigroups.
 
- Wray, David Otway - Advisor: Klaus Kaiser.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: First Order Quotational Logic.
 
1986
- Benton, Chrsitopher Paul - Advisor: Jutta Hausen.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: K-projectivity in Nonabelian Groups.
 
- Gonglewski, John Damien - Advisor: Homer Walker.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: On Quasi-Newton Methods for Maximum Likelihood Estimates With Applications to the mixture density problem.
 
- Morgan, Jeff - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty. Current position: Associate Provost for Education
                                       Innovation and Technology, University of Houston.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Global existence, Boundedness, and Decay for Solution of Semilinear Parabolic System of Partial Differential equation.
 
- West, Thelma R. - Advisor: Andrew Lelek.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: The Span Structure of some Groups and Continua.
 
- Bruni, Anthony J. - Advisor: Henry Decell.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Nonnegative, Nontrivial, Fixed Points of Orthogonal Projections.
 
- Muoneke, N'Ekwunife - Advisor: Richard Sinkhorn.
                                       
                                       - Thesis:On the Stochastic and Doubly Stochastic Powers of Nonnegative Square Reducible Matrices.
 
- Zeng, Xianwu - Advisor: Giles Auchmuty. First position: Wuhan University, PR China.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: A Qualitative Investigation of Coupled Systems of Nonlinear Cscillators.
 
1984
- Sparra, James L. - Advisor: Homer Walker.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Stochastic approximation of fixed points.
 
1983
- Nll, Van Clyne - Advisor: W.T. Ingram.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Weak Confluence and W-sets
 
- Phuong, Vu Anh, - Advisor: Homer F. Walker.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Inaccuracy in Least Change Secant Update Methods
 
- Roberson, Pamela D. - Advisor: W.T. Ingram.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: An Uncountable Collection of Case-Chamberlin Type Continua with No Model.
 
- Suen, Ching-yun - Advisor: Vern I. Paulsen. First position: University of Texas A&M-Galveston.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: The Representation Theory of Completely Bounded Maps on C^*-algebra.
 
- Becerra, Linda - Advisor: Johnny Johnson. First position: University of Houston -
                                       Downtown.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Multiplicative Lattices and the Integral Closure Operation.
 
- Jones, Kathryn  - Advisor: Siemion Fajtlowicz.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Independence in Graphs with Maximum Degree Four.
 
- Nguyen, Tung M.  - Advisor: Henry Decell.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Applications of Generalized Inverse to Circulant Matrices, Intersection Projections, and Linear Programming.
 
- Collins, Dwayne - Advisor: W. Ingram.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Monotone Upper Semi-continuous Decompositions of IUC Continua
 
- Davis, James Francis  - Advisor: W. Ingram.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Zero Span Continua
 
- Janeway, Billy Don - Advisor: Matthew O'Malley.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Zero Divisors in Commutative Semigroup Rings.
 
- Marsh, Dorothy - Advisor: W. Ingram.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Concerning the Cone Hyperspace Property.
 
- Marsh, Marcus - Advisor: H. Cook.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Fixed Point Theorems for Certain Tree-like Continua.
 
- Baica, Malvina F. Thesis: A New Algorithm Over the Complex Number Field (AFC) and Its Applications to Units and Combinational Identities.
- Moebes, Travis A. - Advisor: Ingram.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: An Atriodic Tree-like Continuum That is Not Weakly Chainable.
 
- Morton, George R.  - Advisor: D.G. Bourgin.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Homotopy-invariant Group Constructions and Preimages of Essential Maps.
 
- Nehs, Robert M.  - Advisor: D. Bourgin. First position: Texas Southern University.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Generalized Reduced Omology and Duality.
 
- Rankin, John S.  - Advisor: Johnny Johnson.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Transforms and Completions of Multiplicative Lattices.
 
- Basa, Rekha - Advisor: Henry Decell.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Effect of Model Specification in Pattern Classification.
 
- Kaufman, William Fugene - Advisor: John Nerney.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Semiclosed Operators in Hilbert Space.
 
- Malek-Shahmiraadi Massoud - Advisor: Henry Decell.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Application of Neumann's Lemma to the Minimum and Characteristic Polynomials.
 
- Oshima , Kunio - Advisor: Henry Decell.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Inclusion Theorem by Means of Iteration Procedure.
 
- Perez , Dorothy C. - Advisor: Johnny Johnson.
                                       
                                       - Thesis: Closure Operations on Multiplicative Lattices.