Grad News – 2015

2015 and earlier

1. Qiyu Sun was appointed as the UCF Math graduate program coordinator in Fall 2015.
2. Ge Lei (PhD 2015, advisor: M. Nashed) passed the PhD defense. Her dissertation is Calibration of Option Pricing in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space.
3. Angela Siple (PhD 2015, advisor: P. Mikusinski) passed the PhD defense. Her dissertation is Integral Representations of Positive Linear Functionals
4. Dr. Aicha Elhor Gillespie was honored as the UCF College of Sciences 2015 Mathematics Outstanding AlumKnight at the inaugural ceremony in February.
5. Bert Culpepper (Master 1982), Technical support engineer at ServiceNow from February 2015.
6. Dr Robert Van Gorder (PhD 2014, supervisors: David Kaup and Kuppalapalle Vajravelu) join the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford as a researchFellow.  His general research interests lie in applications of mathematics and the analysis of nonlinear differential equations. These include approximation, perturbation, and numericalmethods, nonlinear PDEs, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics and turbulence, mathematical physics, integrable systems and nonlinear waves, solid mechanics, game theory and mathematical economics, mathematical biology and chemistry.

   

7. Morgan Phillips (Master 1991) is named as President of the West and Desert Vista Campuses at Pima Community College, July 2014
8. Dr. Kamran Sadiq (PhD 2014, supervisor: Alexander Tamasan) joined Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) as research scientists on Inverse Problems and Mathematical Imaging.

   

9. Joseph Brennan was appointed as the UCF Math graduate program coordinator in Fall 2012.
10. Alison Hammack received the first graduate certificate of mathematical science, Spring 2012.
11. Haimei Shao (PhD 2011, Advisor: Jiongmin Yong)  was a Quantitative Researcher in Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and is currently at BB&T Funds Management. Featured in the UCF graduate catalog, Dr. Shao said  “Four years of rigorous training under Jiongmin Yong, PhD at UCF made her capable of analyzing and solving problems in the real world by looking into the roots of the problem and creating the solutions from the roots as well.”

    

12. Mark Crutccher (Master 1976) is appointed as Database Administrator at AAA National. 10/2010
13. Jing Zhang (Master 2004) is appointed as VP, Credit Risk Management Manager at Bank of America, 09/ 2010.
14. The UCF graduate program will offer the Graduate Certificates in Mathematical Sciences in Fall 2009.
15. Xin Li was appointed as the UCF Math graduate program coordinator in Fall 2006.
16. Wu Jing  (PhD 2006, advisor: Deguang Han) is currently a professor at Department of Mathematics,  Fayetteville State University. Featured in the UCF Graduate Catalog 2016, Dr. Jing said “The Department of Mathematics of UCF is one of the best math departments in the nation. The outstanding faculty members and the strong academic atmosphere made UCF a great place to pursuit advanced degree in mathematics” and “I have benefited a lot in both research and teaching from the faculty members and my fellow graduate students. Without the experience at UCF, I would not have gone this far.”

    

17.  Robert Anschuetz (Master 1995) had new position: Training Section Manager at General Dynamics C4 Systems (12/2006)
18. Aaron Masino (PhD 2004, Advisor: Cynthia Young) is currently the supervisor of data science research for the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Featured in the UCF Graduate Catalog 2016, “As a graduate student, I had the opportunity to conduct research, publish papers in international journals, give presentations at professional conferences and assist in the management of a research team,” Dr. Masino says. “Very few graduate students are afforded all of these opportunities.”
19. Sidra I. Van De Car (PhD 2003, advisor: Xin Li) is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Valencia College East Campus.
20. Mohammed Alotaibi received the first Master degree with Industrial Math Track, Spring 2003.
21. Ram Mohapatra was appointed as the UCF Math graduate program coordinator in Fall 2001.
22. John Pask (Master 1994) joined the EOS & Materials Theory group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2001.

    

23. The UCF Math Master Program will add  an Industrial Mathematics track in Fall 2000.
24. Ahmed I. Zayed was appointed as the UCF Math graduate program coordinator in Fall 1999.
25. Kevin Brown (PhD 1999, advisor: S. Roy Choudhury) is currently the Professor and Chair of Mathematics,  Southern Adventist University.
26. Deborah Kelly and Jing Minkler are awarded the first two PhD degrees of the program in Spring 1998.
27.  David Rollins was appointed as the UCF Math graduate proram coordinator in Fall 1996.
28.  Piotr Mikusinski was appointed as the UCF Math graduate program coordinator in Fall 1993.
29. The UCF Math Department will offer the PhD program in Mathematics since Fall 1993.
30. Mark Crutcher was awarded the first Master degree of the program in Summer 1976.
31. Larry Andrews was appointed as the UCF Math graduate program coordinator in Spring 1971.
32. The UCF Math department will offer the Master program in Spring 1971.