People Faculty Dr. Christen Fleming Dr. Andrew Nevai Dr. Yuanwei Qi Dr. Zhisheng Shuai Postdoctoral Scholars Dr. Majaliwa Masolele, UCF Department of Biology Dr. B Sagar, UCF School of Data, Mathematical, and Statistical Sciences Dr. George Zaragoza, UCF Department of Biology Graduate Students Moses Boye, PhD student in Mathematics Jason Harmon, PhD student in Mathematics Nozomu Hirama, PhD student in Conservation and Integrative Biology Erika Lin, PhD student in Conservation and Integrative Biology Alumni Killian Muollo, PhD 2026 Dissertation: Revolution in the age of social media: A mathematical model for information, dissent, and stability Seoyun Choe, PhD 2024 Dissertation: Spectral approaches for characterizing heterogeneity in infectious disease models Poroshat Yazdanbakhshghahyazi, PhD 2022 Dissertation: Population persistence and disease invasion in heterogeneous networks Arielle Gaudiello, PhD 2019 Dissertation: Mathematical investigation of the spatial spread of an infectious disease in a heterogeneous environment Jeff Sharpe, PhD 2016 Dissertation: A mathematical model for feral cat ecology with application to disease Yi Zhu, PhD 2016 Dissertation: Computational study of traveling solutions and global stability of predator-prey models