The UCF Math graduate program awarded 86 PhD degrees, 373 Master degrees, and 22 Mathematical Science Certificates since Spring 1971. Please email the program director at Carlos Borges for updating and correction.

Below find the graduates from 2021 to present. The graduates of previous years can be found here.

Fall 2024

No graduates

Summer 2024

M.Sc.

  • Grisaitis, William Claiborne

Title: MNIST Digits to Melanoma: Hyperbolic Geometry for Improved Data Representation in variational Autoencoders
Advisor: Dr. Teng Zhang

Ph.D.

  • Chen, Panpan

Title: Carleman Linearization For Nonlinear Systems And Their Explicit Error Bounds
Advisor: Dr. Qiyu Sun
Placement: UCF Teaching Postdoc

  • Choe, Seoyun

Title: Spectral Approaches for Characterizing Heterogeneity in Infectious Disease Models
Advisor: Dr. Zhisheng Shuai
Placement: CDC

Spring 2024

M.Sc.

  • Maali, Jenaan Jamileh
  • Titera, Benjamin

Ph.D.

  • Chen-Shue, Yun Su

Title: A Limit Order Book For High Frequency Trading With Rough Volatility
Advisor: Dr. Jiongmin Yong

  • Fan, Xing

Title: Low-Rank Matrix Estimation
Advisor: Dr. Teng Zhang

  • Lafferty, Michael

Title: Extremal Functions For K-s t Minors And Coloring Graphs With No K-s t Minors
Advisor: Dr. Zixia Song

Fall 2023

No graduates
Summer 2023

M.Sc.

  • Girard, Jessica Maree

Title: Topological Data analysis Using the Mapper Algorithm
Advisor: Dr. Junho Lee

  • Keene, Benjamin Jeffrey
  • Liao, Jingxi
  • Shi, Yao

Ph.D.

Title: On Quantitative Hessian Estimates for fully Nnonlinear Elliptic Equations
Advisor: Dr. Eduardo Teixeira
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar at Iowa State University

Spring 2023

M.Sc.

  • Hitsman, Killian
  • Nulph, Jay
  • O’Brien-Pifer, Timothy

Ph.D.

  • Wang, Yaxuan

Title: Clustering of Diverse Multiplex Networks
Advisor: Dr. Marianna Pensky

Fall 2022

M.Sc.

  • Cadenhead, Elijah
  • Okeke, Chisom

Ph.D.

  • Yazdanbakhshghahyazi, Poroshat

Title: Population Persistence and Disease Invasion in Heterogeneous Networks
Advisor: Dr. Zhisheng Shuai
Placement: Rollins College

Summer 2022

M.Sc.

  • Bass, Huntir

Title: Mathematical Model of Giraffe Population Dynamics
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Nevai

  • Bosch, Teresa

Title: Characterizing a Path to Chaos in Perturbed Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
Advisor: Dr. Constance Schober

  • Farotimi, Oluwaseun
  • Gentile, Russell

Title: Function Approximation Guarantees for a Shallow NeuralNetwork trained by Gradient Flow
Advisor: Dr. Gerrit Welper

  • Ogala, Wisdom
  • Reinhart, Daniel

Ph.D.

  • Alfonso-Rodríguez, Ransés

Title: Extensions Of The General Solution To The Inverse Problem Of The Calculus Of Variations, And Variational, Perturbative And Reversible Systems Approaches To Regular And Embedded Solitary Waves
Advisor: Dr. S. Roy Choudhury

  • Cao, Yuchen

Title: Optimal Impulse Controls With Changing Running Cost And Applications In Mortgage Refinance
Advisor: Dr. Jiongmin Yong

  • Roopnarain, Ryan

Title: Various Dynamical Regimes And Transitions From Homogeneous To Inhomogeneous Steady States In Nonlinear Systems With Delays And Diverse Couplings
Advisor: Dr. S. Roy Choudhury

Spring 2022

M.Sc.

  • Adimali, Chamika
  • Alabduljabbar, Areej
  • Malott, Chad

Title: The Parker Problem in Hall Magnetohydrodynamics Analytical and Numerical Solutions
Advisor: Dr. Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

  • Parker, Ryan
  • Reed, Hanna
  • Sarker, Sweety

Title: Cholera Transmission Dynamic Model with Environmental Impacts of Plankton Reservoirs
Advisor: Dr. Zhisheng Shuai

Ph.D.

  • Li, Chang

Title: Optimal Stochastic Impulse Control with Decision Lag
Advisor: Dr. Jiongmin Yong

Fall 2021

M.Sc.

  • Grimes, Elizabeth
Summer 2021

M.Sc.

  • Jones, Allyson

Title: A Mathematical Model for Predicting Animal Population Persistence on Fragmented Landscapes
Advisor: Dr. Andrew Nevai

  • Liu, Kai

Ph.D.

  • Guinovart Sanjuan, David

Title: Computation of effective properties of smart composite materials with generalized periodicity using a two-scales asymptotic homogenization method.
Advisor: Dr. Kuppalapalle Vajravelu

  • Yu, Feng

Title: Regularized Estimations in Some Statistical Problems
Advisor: Dr.Teng Zhang

Spring 2021

M.Sc.

  • Choe, Seoyun
  • Chung, Seok-Young
  • Doobay, Kurtis
  • Eubanks, Alexander
  • Jiang, Jichao
  • Muollo, Killian