{"id":7199,"date":"2025-01-14T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/?page_id=7199"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:03:58","slug":"graduate-alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/graduate\/graduate-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"mailto:mathgraddir@ucf.edu\"> Carlos Borges <\/a> for updating and correction.<\/p>\n<p>Below find the graduates from 2021 to present. The graduates of previous years can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/math\/graduate\/alumni\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Fall 2024<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><b>No graduates<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/h6>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Summer 2024<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grisaitis, William Claiborne<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: MNIST Digits to Melanoma: Hyperbolic Geometry for Improved Data Representation in variational Autoencoders<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Teng Zhang<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chen, Panpan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Carleman Linearization For Nonlinear Systems And Their Explicit Error Bounds<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Qiyu Sun<br \/>\nPlacement: UCF Teaching Postdoc<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Choe, Seoyun<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Spectral Approaches for Characterizing Heterogeneity in Infectious Disease Models<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Zhisheng Shuai<br \/>\nPlacement: CDC<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Spring 2024<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Maali, Jenaan Jamileh<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Titera, Benjamin<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chen-Shue, Yun Su<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: A Limit Order Book For High Frequency Trading With Rough Volatility<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Jiongmin Yong<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fan, Xing<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Low-Rank Matrix Estimation<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Teng Zhang<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lafferty, Michael<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Extremal Functions For K-s t Minors And Coloring Graphs With No K-s t Minors<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Zixia Song<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Fall 2023<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><br \/>\nNo graduates<\/span><\/h6>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Summer 2023<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Girard, Jessica Maree<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Topological Data analysis Using the Mapper Algorithm<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Junho Lee<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Keene, Benjamin Jeffrey<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Liao, Jingxi<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shi, Yao<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/thialita-nascimento\/home\">Moura Do Nascimento, Thialita<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: On Quantitative Hessian Estimates for fully Nnonlinear Elliptic Equations<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Eduardo Teixeira<br \/>\nPlacement: Postdoctoral Scholar at Iowa State University<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Spring 2023<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hitsman, Killian<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nulph, Jay<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>O&#8217;Brien-Pifer, Timothy<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wang, Yaxuan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Clustering of Diverse Multiplex Networks<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Marianna Pensky<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Fall 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cadenhead, Elijah<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Okeke, Chisom<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Yazdanbakhshghahyazi, Poroshat<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Population Persistence and Disease Invasion in Heterogeneous Networks<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Zhisheng Shuai<br \/>\nPlacement: Rollins College<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Summer 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bass, Huntir<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Mathematical Model of Giraffe Population Dynamics<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Andrew Nevai<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bosch, Teresa<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Characterizing a Path to Chaos in Perturbed Nonlinear Schr\u00f6dinger Equations<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Constance Schober<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Farotimi, Oluwaseun<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gentile, Russell<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Function Approximation Guarantees for a Shallow NeuralNetwork trained by Gradient Flow<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Gerrit Welper<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ogala, Wisdom<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reinhart, Daniel<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alfonso-Rodr\u00edguez, Rans\u00e9s<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">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<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. S. Roy Choudhury<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cao, Yuchen<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Optimal Impulse Controls With Changing Running Cost And Applications In Mortgage Refinance<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Jiongmin Yong<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Roopnarain, Ryan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Various Dynamical Regimes And Transitions From Homogeneous To Inhomogeneous Steady States In Nonlinear Systems With Delays And Diverse Couplings<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. S. Roy Choudhury<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Spring 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kankanamge, Chamika<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alabduljabbar, Areej<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Malott, Chad<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: The Parker Problem in Hall Magnetohydrodynamics Analytical and Numerical Solutions<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Parker, Ryan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reed, Hanna<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarker, Sweety<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Cholera Transmission Dynamic Model with Environmental Impacts of Plankton Reservoirs<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Zhisheng Shuai<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Li, Chang<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Optimal Stochastic Impulse Control with Decision Lag<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Jiongmin Yong<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Fall 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grimes, Elizabeth<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/h6>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Summer 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jones, Allyson<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: A Mathematical Model for Predicting Animal Population Persistence on Fragmented Landscapes<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Andrew Nevai<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: 1rem;font-weight: 600\">Liu, Kai<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Guinovart Sanjuan, David<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Computation of effective properties of smart composite materials with generalized periodicity using a two-scales asymptotic homogenization method.<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr. Kuppalapalle Vajravelu<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Yu, Feng<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Title: Regularized Estimations in Some Statistical Problems<br \/>\nAdvisor: Dr.Teng Zhang<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">Spring 2021<\/span><\/strong><\/summary>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>M.Sc.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Choe, Seoyun<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chung, Seok-Young<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Doobay, Kurtis<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eubanks, Alexander<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jiang, Jichao<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Muollo, Killian<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><\/h6>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UCF Math graduate program awarded 86 PhD degrees, 373 Master degrees, and 22 Mathematical Science Certificates since Spring 1971. 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