All Graduates

December, 2018 — Aarati Mahat
Thesis title: Dynamic features of neural activity in primary auditory cortex captured by an integrate-and-fire network model for auditory streaming
Supervisor:

Professor Rodica Curtu (Mathematics)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin - Superior
August, 2018 — Gregory Tanner
Thesis title: Generalized Additive Runge-Kutta Methods for Stiff Differential Equations
Supervisor:

Professor Laurent Jay (Department of Mathematics)
Position: Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Dakota Wesleyan University, SD
May, 2018 — HanQin Cai
Thesis title: Accelerating Truncated Singular-Value Decomposition: A fast and Provable Method for Robust Principal Component Analysis
Supervisors:

Professor Jianfeng Cai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Professor Weiyu Xu (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Position: Post-doc, UCLA
May, 2018 — Cole Stiegler
Thesis title: Efficient Local Optimization for Low-Rank Large-Scale Instances of the Quadratic Assignment Problem
Supervisor:

Professor David Stewart (Mathematics)
Position: Senior Data Scientist, Target in Minneapolis
May, 2018 — Tianming Wang
Thesis title: Non-Convex Methods for Spectrally Sparse Signal Reconstruction via Low-Rank Hankel Matrix Completion
Supervisors:

Professor Jianfeng Cai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Professor Weiyu Xu (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Position: Post-doc, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
December, 2017 — Gordon Aiello
Thesis title: The Classical Moment Problem and Scattering Asymptotic in Euclidean Relativistic Quantum Theory
Supervisors:

Professor Wayne Polyzou (Physics and Astronomy)
Professor Palle Jorgensen (Mathematics)
Position: Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Mathematics, University of Utah's Asia Campus
December, 2017 — Christine Caples
Thesis title: A Tabulation of Tangle Families
Supervisor:

Professor Isabel Darcy (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Southern New Hampshire University
December, 2017 — Kenneth Czuprynski
Thesis title: Numerical Analysis in Energy Dependent Radiative Transfer
Supervisor:

Professor Weimin Han (Mathematics)
Position: Computational Scientist, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, PA
August, 2017 — Minli Bao
Thesis title: A Moving-window Penalization Method and its Applications
Supervisor:

Professor Kai Wang (Biostatistics)
Position: Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, Shanghai
August, 2017 — Patrick Seton Rhomberg
Thesis title: On the Parallelization of Network Diffusion Models
Supervisor:

Professor Alberto Segre (Computer Science)
Position: Software Engineer, Pivotal Software, Inc., OR
May, 2017 — Tracie Michlin
Thesis title: Using Wavelet Bases to Separate Scales in Quantum Field Theory
Supervisor:

Professor Wayne Polyzou (Physics and Astronomy)
Position: Adjunct Instructor, Kirkwood College, Cedar Rapids, IA
May, 2017 — Silviya Valeva
Thesis title: Workforce and Inventory Management under Uncertain Demand
Supervisor:

Professor Barrett Thomas (Management Sciences)
Position: Post-doc, Rice University, Houston
May, 2017 — Kai Yang
Thesis title: Dynamics of the Energy Critical Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation with Inverse Square Potential
Supervisor:

Professor Xiaoyi Zhang (Mathematics)
Position: Post-doc, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
December, 2016 — Benjamin Dill
Thesis title: Numerical simulation of the impact of a steel ball with a rigid foundation
Supervisor:

Professor David Stewart (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure-track, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah
December, 2016 — Nan Hu
Thesis title: A Unified Discrepancy-Based Approach for Balancing Efficiency and Robustness in State-Space Modeling Estimation, Selection, and Diagnosis
Supervisor:

Professor Joseph Cavanaugh (Biostatistics)
Position: Associate Statistical Scientist, Genentech, San Francisco
December, 2016 — Nathaniel Richmond
Thesis title: On Stochastic Network Design: Modeling Approaches and Solution Techniques
Supervisor:

Professor Pavlo Krokhmal (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, now at University of Arizona)
Position: Senior Operations Research & Advanced Analytics Specialist, BNSF Railway in Ft. Worth, Texas
December, 2016 — Ze Zhao
Thesis title: Stochastic Volatility Models with Applications in Finance
Supervisor:

Professor Palle Jorgensen (Mathematics)
Position: Risk Analyst, Transamerica, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
August, 2016 — Joseph Ambrose
Thesis title: Dynamic Field Theory Applied to fMRI Signal Analysis
Supervisor:

Professor Rodica Curtu (Mathematics)
Position: Pricing Analyst, Fastenal, Winona, MN
August, 2016 — Mario Barela
Thesis title: A Complimentarity Approach to Modeling Dynamic Electronic Circuits
Supervisor:

Professor David Stewart (Mathematics)
Position: Senior Research Engineer, BAE Systems, Burlington, MA
August, 2016 — Jeffrey Landgren
Thesis title: An Acoustic Eigenvalue Problem and its Application to Electrochemistry
Supervisors:

Professor Gerhard Strohmer (Mathematics)
Professor Johna Leddy (Chemistry)
Position: Tenure-track, University of North Georgia
August, 2016 — Gregory Ongie
Thesis title: Off-the-grid Compressive Imaging
Supervisor:

Professor Mathews Jacob (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Position: Post-doc, University of Michigan
August, 2016 — Julia Walk
Thesis title: A Mathematical Model of the Effects of Multiple Myeloma on Renal Function
Supervisor:

Professor Bruce Ayati (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure-track, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN
May, 2016 — Catherine E. Patterson
Thesis title: Histomorphometry-Based Modeling and Simulation of Multiple Myeloma Bone Disease
Supervisor:

Professor Bruce Ayati (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure-track, Austin College in Sherman, TX
August, 2015 — Morgan Shiller Fonley
Thesis title: Effects of Oscillatory Forcing on Hydrologic Systems under Extreme Conditions: A Mathematical Modeling Approach
Supervisor:

Professor Rodica Curtu (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure-track, Alma College, Michigan
August, 2015 — Xiayi Wang
Thesis title: Structured Modeling & Simulation of Articular Cartilage Lesion Formation: Development & Validation
Supervisor:

Professor Bruce Ayati (Mathematics)
Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Computational Neuroscience, University of Iowa
August, 2015 — Boshi Yang
Thesis title: A Conic Optimization Approach to Variants of the Trust Region Subproblem
Supervisor:

Professor Samuel Burer (Management Sciences)
Position: Post-doc, Carnegie Mellon University
August, 2015 — Tianyi Zhang
Thesis title: Source Recovery in Bioluminescence Tomography Based on Radiative Transfer
Supervisor:

Professor Weimin Han and Professor Jianfeng Cai (Mathematics)
Position: Algorithmic Trader, Shanghai Cyndi Investment Co. Ltd.
August, 2015 — Chenhong Zhu
Thesis title: New Insight into Models of Cardiac Caveolae and Arrhythmia
Supervisor:

Professor Colleen Mitchell (Mathematics)
Position: Intermediate Programmer Analyst Asset Manager, AEGON USA Realty Advisors, LLC, Iowa
December, 2014 — Nathan David Ellingwood
Thesis title: Methods for Improving Performance of Particle Tracking and Image Registration in Computational Lung Modeling Using Multi-core CPUs and GPUs
Supervisor:

Professor Ching-Long Lin (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering)
Position: Post-Doc, IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, University of Iowa
August, 2014 — Rebecca Gasper
Thesis title: Action Potentials in the Peripheral Auditory Nervous System: A Novel PDE Distribution Model
Supervisor:

Professor Colleen Mitchell (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure track, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
May, 2014 — Mark Krines
Thesis title: On the Probabilistic Modeling of Consistency for Iterated Positional Election Procedures
Supervisors:

Professor Douglas Dion (Political Science),
Professor Jonathan K. Hodge (Grand Valley State University)
Position: Lecturer, University of Wisconsin--Stout
December, 2013 — Jeannine Therese Abiva
Thesis title: Learning the Association of Multiple Inputs in Recurrent Networks
Supervisor:

Professor Rodica Curtu (Mathematics)
Position: Adjunct Instructor in Mathematics, Florida State University Panama City
July, 2013 — Mary Therese Zeithaml Padberg
Thesis title: Software for Modeling Protein-bound DNA: Determining a Geometric Structure Consistent with Known Topological Data
Supervisor:

Professor Isabel Darcy (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure track, University of Evansville, IN
July, 2013 — Qiwei Sheng
Thesis title: Some Approximations to Radiative Transfer Equation and Their Applications
Supervisor:

Professor Weimin Han (Mathematics)
Position: Post-Doc, Washington University
July, 2013 — Fan Yang
Thesis title: Asymptotics for Risk Measure of Extreme Risks
Supervisor:

Professor Qihe Tang (Statistics and Actuarial Science)
Position: Tenure track, Actuarial Science, Drake University
May, 2013 — Bin Li
Thesis title: Look-back Stopping Times and Their Applications to Liquidation Risks and Exotic Options
Supervisor:

Professor Lihe Wang (Mathematics) and Professor Qihe Tang (Statistics and Actuarial Science)
Position: Tenure track, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, University of Waterloo
December, 2012 — Kai Tsuruta
Thesis title: Construction of the Wave Operator for Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
Supervisor:

Professor Xiaoyi Zhang (Mathematics) and Professor Dong Li (Mathematics)
Position: Fellow in the hydrology lab of the faculty of forestry, University of British Columbia
July, 2012 — Danilo Diedrichs
Thesis title: A Mathematical Model Of The Unfolded Protein Response To Stress In The Endoplasmic Reticulum Of Mammalian Cells Under Stress
Supervisor:

Professor Rodica Curtu (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure Track, Wheaton College, IL
July, 2012 — Jason Graham
Thesis title: Mathematical Representations In Musculoskeletal Physiology And Cell Motility
Supervisor:

Professor Bruce Ayati (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure Track, University of Scranton, Penn.
May, 2012 — Roseanne Wolf
Thesis title: Defining New Insight Into Fatal Human Arrhythmia: A Mathematical Analysis
Supervisor:

Professor Colleen Mitchell (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure Track, University of Dubuque
May, 2012 — Kamuela Yong
Thesis title: A Mathematical Model Of The Intreractions Between Pollination And Their Effects On Pollination Of Almonds
Supervisors:

Professor Yi Li (Mathematics)
Professor Steve Hendrix (Biological Sciences)
Position: Alliance Postdoctoral Fellowship, Arizona State University
December, 2011 — Hongbo Dong
Thesis title: Copositive Programming: Separation and Relaxations
Supervisors:

Professor Kurt M. Anstreicher (Management Sciences)
Professor Samuel Burer (Management Sciences)
Position: Post-Doc in WID optimization group, University of Wisconsin, Madison
July, 2011 — Joseph Eichholz
Thesis title: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Radiative Transfer Equation and its Approximations
Supervisor:

Professor Weimin Han (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure Track, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
July, 2011 — Darin Mohr
Thesis title: Hybrid Runge-Kutta and Quasi-Newton Methods for Unconstrained Nonlinear Optimization
Supervisor:

Professor Laurent Jay (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure Track, Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia
May, 2011 — Junjun Deng
Thesis title: Parallel computing techniques for Computed Tomography
Supervisor:

Professor Lihe Wang (Mathematics)
Position: Senior scientist, Siemens molecular imaging
May, 2011 — Benjamin Galluzzo
Thesis title: A Finite-Difference Based Approach to Solving the Subsurface Fluid Flow Equation in Heterogeneous Media
Supervisor:

Professor Lihe Wang (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure Track in Mathematics, Shippensburg University
May, 2011 — Scott Small
Thesis title: Runge-Kutta Type Methods for Differential-Algebraic Equations in Mechanics
Supervisor:

Professor Laurent Jay (Mathematics)
Position: Post-Doc, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa
December, 2010 — Hyeyoung Moon
Thesis title: Calculating Knot Distances and Solving Tangle Equations Involving Montesinos Links
Supervisor:

Professor Isabel K. Darcy (Mathematics)
Position: Lecturer, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
July, 2010 — Jon Van Laarhoven
Thesis title: Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the Euclidean Steiner Tree Problem
Supervisors:

Professor Kurt M. Anstreicher (Management Sciences)
Professor Jeff Ohlmann (Management Sciences)
Position: Senior Analyst, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Hampton, VA
July, 2010 — Stephanie Schmidt
Thesis title: Mathematical Models of Ion Transport Through Nafion Membranes in Modified Electrodes and Fuel Cells without the Electroneutrality Assumption
Supervisors:

Professor Johna Leddy (Chemistry)
Professor Gerhard Strohmer (Mathematics)
Professor Bruce Ayati (Mathematics)
Position: Operations Research Analyst at Fiberight in Blairstown, IA
July, 2010 — Yuan Wu
Thesis title: The Partially Monotone Tensor Spline Estimation of Joint Distribution Function with Bivariate Current Status Data
Supervisor:

Professor Ying Zhang (Biostatistics)
Position: Post-doc, Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa
May, 2010 — Ian Besse
Thesis title: Modeling caveolar sodium contributions to cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis
Supervisor:

Professor Colleen Mitchell (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure Track, University of Missouri at Kansas City
May, 2010 — Soojeong Kim
Thesis title: A 4-string tangle analysis of DNA-protein complexes based on difference topology
Supervisor:

Professor Isabel K. Darcy (Mathematics)
Position: University College of Yonsei, South Korea
December, 2009 — Kevin Murphy
Thesis title: The Structure of Gluons in Point Form Quantum Chromodynamics
Supervisor:

Professor William H. Klink (Physics and Astronomy)
Position: Tenure-track, St. Norbert College, DePere, WI 54115
August, 2009 — Le Gui
Thesis title: Use of Operator Theory and Sub-band Filters in the Analysis and Encoding of Signals and Images
Supervisor:

Professor Palle Jorgensen (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure-track, Upper Iowa University
August, 2009 — Fengrong Wei
Thesis title: High-dimensional Regression with Grouped Variables
Supervisor:

Professor Jian Huang (Statistics and Actuarial Science)
Position: Tenure-track, University of West Georgia, Carrollton
May, 2009 — Brian Gillispie
Thesis title: Instabilities of Elastic Objects in Motion
Supervisor:

Professor David Stewart (Mathematics)
Position: Kirkwood College, Cedar Rapids
May, 2009 — Yu Jiang
Thesis title: Inference and Prediction in a Multiple Structural Break Model of Economic Time Series
Supervisor:

Professor John Geweke (Economics)
Position: School of Business, Nanjing University, China
August, 2008 — Kamran Kazmi
Thesis title: Mathematical Theory and Numerical Analysis of Integrated Bioluminescence Tomography and Diffuse Optical Tomography
Supervisor:

Professor Weimin Han (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure-track, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
August, 2008 — Sujin Kim
Thesis title: The Role of Bases and Wavelets in Stochastic Processes
Supervisor:

Professor Palle Jorgensen (Mathematics)
Position: Full-time instructor, Savannah State University
July, 2008 — Omayra Ortega
Thesis title: Evaluation of Rotavirus Vaccination Programs
Supervisors:

Professors Herb Hethcote(Mathematics)
Tong Li (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure-track, Arizona State University - west campus
May, 2008 — Jerome Pansera
Thesis title: Local Risk Minimization, Consistent Interest-Rate Modeling, and Applications to Life-Insurance
Supervisor:

Professor Elias S. W. Shiu (Statistics and Actuarial Science)
Position: Tenure-track in Statistics and Actuarial Science, U of Iowa
December, 2007 — Ram Kishore Medikonduri
Thesis title: Tabulation of Tangles and Solving Tangle Equations
Supervisor:

Professor Isabel Darcy (Mathematics)
Position: Pyxis Solutions, New York
July, 2007 — Yang Ho Choi
Thesis title: Curvature Arbitrage
Supervisor:

Professor Palle Jorgensen (Mathematics)
Position: Tenure-track, D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY
July, 2007 — Hun Kwon
Thesis title: W^{2,p }Estimates for Linear Fourth Order Elliptic Equations with BMO Coefficients in Reifenberg Flat Domains
Supervisor:

Professor Lihe Wang (Mathematics)
Position: Postdoc, UT Austin
July, 2007 — Ricardo Ortiz-Rosado
Thesis title: Newton/AMG Algorithm for Solving Complementarity Problems Arising in Rigid Body Dynamics with Frictional Impacts
Supervisor:

Professor David Stewart (Mathematics)
Position: Postdoc, Tulane University
December, 2006 — Victoria Shimanovich
Thesis title: Optimization of large scale sparse nonlinear systems for flexible protein conformations
Supervisor:

Professor Alberto Maria Segre (Computer Sciences)
Position: Tenure Track Professor, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY
July, 2006 — Huseyin Coskun
Thesis title: Mathematical Models for Ameboid Cell Motility And Model Based Inverse Problems
Supervisor:

Professor Yi Li (Mathematics)
Position: Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
May, 2006 — Roberto Saenz
Thesis title: Mathematical Models for Two Species Sharing an Infectious Disease
Supervisor:

Professor Herbert Hethcote (Mathematics)
Position: Postdoc, University of Cambridge, UK
July, 2005 — Jose Candelaria
Thesis title: Construction and Analysis of Two Habitat Specific Dispersal Models
Supervisors:

Professor Herbert Hethcote (Mathematics)
Professor Steve Hendrix (Biological Sciences)
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell College
July, 2005 — Hyounkun Oh
Thesis title: Spark Methods for Mixed Daes of Index 2 and 3 and their Application in Mechanics
Supervisor:

Professor Laurent Jay (Mathematics)
Position: Assistant Professor, Savannah State University
July, 2005 — Sara Del Valle
Thesis title: Effects of Behavioral Changes and Mixing Patterns in Mathematical Models for Smallpox Epidemics
Supervisor:

Professor Herbert Hethcote (Mathematics)
Position: Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory
July, 2005 — Jiehua Zhu
Thesis title: Image Reconstruction and Geometric Modeling in Computed Tomography
Supervisors:

Yangbo Ye (Mathematics)
Ge Wang (Radiology)
Shiying Zhao (Radiology)
Position: Assistant Professor, Georgia Southern University
December, 2004 — Xiaoxu Han
Thesis title: Local Z Buffer Algorithms in Real Time Rendering of Large Complex Scenes
Supervisor:

Professor Jim Cremer (Computer Science)
Position: Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University
August, 2004 — Viorel Bostan
Thesis title: A Posteriori Error Analysis and Adaptive Finite Element Solution of Variational Inequalities of the Second Kind
Supervisor:

Professor Weimin Han (Mathematics)
Position: Assistant Professor, Technical University of Moldova
August, 2004 — Li Zhang
Thesis title: The P-Hub Center Allocation Problem and the Q-Upgrading Arc Problem
Supervisor:

Professor Ann Campbell (Management Sciences)
Position: Assistant Professor, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina
August, 2003 — Hong Jiang
Thesis title: Exploring Algorithms for Network Capacity Dimensioning and Traffic Modeling
Supervisor:

Professor Dennis Bricker (Industrial Engineering)
Position: Motorola, Chicago
August, 2003 — Changki Kim
Thesis title: Modeling Surrender/Lapse Rates and Valuing Surrender Options in Korean Interest Indexed Annuities
Supervisor:

Professor Elias Shiu (Statistics and Actuarial Science)
Position: University of Texas at Austin
August, 2003 — Koung-Hee Leem
Thesis title: Solving Linear Systems for Meshfree Discretizations
Supervisors:

Professors Suely Oliveira (Computer Science)
Professor David Stewart (Mathematics)
Position: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
May, 2003 — Imad Benjelloun
Thesis title: A Dynamic Programming Model Integrating the Analytical Hierarchy Process
Supervisor:

Professor Dennis Bricker (Industrial Engineering)
Position: Delaware Valley College
May, 2003 — Chris Cartwright
Thesis title: A Parallel Algorithm for Matrix Assembly in Meshfree Methods
Supervisors:

Professors David Stewart (Mathematics)
Professor Suely Oliveira (Computer Sciences)
Position: Lawrence Tech University, Michigan
December, 2002 — Qinghong Zhang
Thesis title: The Interior Point Method for Variational Inequalities and Perfect Duality for Semidefinite Programming
Supervisor:

Professor Weimin Han (Mathematics) and Professor Ken Kortanek (Management Sciences)
Position: Northern Michigan University
December, 2002 — Jaehoon Seol
Thesis title: Analysis of the Radiosity Equation Using the Collocation Method
Supervisor:

Professor Ken Atkinson (Mathematics and Computer Science)
Position: Valdosta State University, Georgia
December, 2001 — Sean Forman
Thesis title: Torsion Angle Selection and Emergent Non-Local Secondary Structure in Protein Structure Prediction
Supervisor:

Professor Alberto Segre (Management Sciences)
Position: St. Josephs University in Philadelphia
December, 2001 — Li Hong
Thesis title: Nonlinear Algorithms for Image Resolution Enhancement and Image Compression
Supervisor:

Professor Jarkko Kari (Computer Science)
Position: ST Microelectronics in San Diego
July, 2001 — Wei Chen
Thesis title: Pricing Fixed Income Securities with a Class of Markov Regime Switching Models
Supervisor:

Professor Raj Jagannathan (Management Sciences)
Position: Financial Software Group at SAS in North Carolina
July, 2001 — Dacian Daescu
Thesis title: Data Assimilation for Air Pollution Models
Supervisor:

Professor Greg Carmichael (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)
Position: Portland State University
December, 2000 — Mirela Iancu
Thesis title: The Null-Space Method for Solving Differential-Algebraic Equations
Supervisor:

Professor Jeff Freeman (Mechanical Engineering)
Position: Delphi Automotive in Sandusky, Ohio
July, 2000 — Matt Schuette
Thesis title: Modeling the Transmission of the Varicella-Zoster Virus
Supervisor:

Professor Herb Hethcote (Mathematics)
Position: Georgia Southern University
July, 1999 — Rob Aulwes
Thesis title: Computational Methods in Dual Representations and Invariant Theory
Supervisors:

Professors Tuong Ton-That (Mathematics)
Professors Bill Klink (Physics)
Position: Los Alamos National Laboratory
July, 1998 — Steve Benson
Thesis title: Solving Large Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Supervisor:

Professor Yinyu Ye (Management Sciences)
Position: Towers Perrin
July, 1997 — Mihai Anitescu
Thesis title: Modeling Rigid Multibody Dynamics with Contact and Friction
Supervisor:

Professor Florian Potra (Mathematics)
Position: Argonne National Laboratory
July, 1997 — Adrian Sandu
Thesis title: Numerical Aspects of Air Quality Modeling
Supervisors:

Professor Greg Carmichael (Chemical and Biochemical Engineering)
Professor Florian Potra (Mathematics)
Position: Virginia Tech University
December, 1996 — Goran Lesaja
Thesis title: Interior-Point Methods for P*-complementarity Problems
Supervisor:

Professor Florian Potra (Mathematics)
Position: Georgia Southern University
July, 1996 — Rick Adkins
Thesis title: Continuation and Bifurcation Methods for Mechanism Workspace and Controllability Analysis
Supervisor:

Professor Ed Haug (Mechanical Engineering)
Position: Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
July, 1996 — Rob Dittmar
Thesis title: Dynamic Economics with Nonconvexites
Supervisor:

Professor Dean Corbae (Economics)
Position: Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
July, 1996 — Lina Xu
Thesis title: Optimization Methods for Computing Empirically Constrained Extremal Probability Distributions
Supervisors:

Professor Dennis Bricker (Industrial Engineering)
Professor Ken Kortanek (Management Sciences)
Position: Milliman and Robinson: Actuaries and Consultants
December, 1995 — Chi-Mei Luh
Thesis title: Numerical Methods for Workspace Analysis of Mechanisms and Manipulators
Supervisor:

Professor Ed Haug (Mechanical Engineering)
December, 1994 — Waizhong Dai
Thesis title: Numerical Solutions of Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations Using an Explicit Finite Analytic Scheme
Supervisor:

Professor C.-J. Chen (Mechanical Engineering)
Position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Louisiana Tech University, Rushton, Louisiana
December, 1994 — Pi-Fang Hung
Thesis title: An Asymptotical O(NL)-Iterator Path-Following Linear Programming Algorithm that Uses Wider Neighborhood and Its Implementation
Supervisor:

Professor Yinyu Ye (Management Sciences)
Position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Tung Hai University, Taichung, Taiwan
August, 1993 — Hui-Chun Tien
Thesis title: Finite Analytic Method for Two-Dimensional Flow with Irregular Boundaries
Supervisor:

Professor C.-J. Chen (Mechanical Engineering)
Position: Department of Applied Mathematics, Providence University, Taiwan
May, 1993 — Hsiao-Ying Chang
Thesis title: The Analytic Center Method for Entropy Optimization and Smooth Convex Programming Problems
Supervisor:

Professor Dennis Bricker (Industrial Engineering)
August, 1992 — Ming Gong Lee
Thesis title: Stability and Convergence Results of Difference Approximation for Overdetermined Differential-Algebraic Equations with Applications to Implicit Integration of Constrained Mechanical System Dynamics
Supervisor:

Professor Ed Haug (Mechanical Engineering)
Position: Chung-Hua University, Department of Applied Mathematics, Taiwan, R.O.C.
December, 1991 — Mei-Hsui Chi
Thesis title: Linear Semi-Infinite and Nondifferentiable Programming Methods for Robot Trajectory Planning Problems
Supervisor:

Professor Ken Kortanek (Management Sciences)
Position: Postdoctoral Position, Institute of Applied Mathematics, National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan
December, 1991 — Mike Suelzer
Thesis title: Analysis of Human Quantitative Judgement: Models of Sequential Magnitude Estimation
Supervisors:

Professors Don Dorfman (Psychology)
Johannes Ledolter (Statistics)
Position: Director of The University of Iowa Statistical Consulting Center and President of DataMasters of Iowa, Inc., Iowa City, Iowa
August, 1991 — Huang Zhen
Thesis title: Mathematical Models and Algorithms for Distribution System Design and Operation
Supervisor:

Professor Dennis Bricker (Industrial and Management Engineering)
Position: Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Otterbein College, Westville, Ohio
May, 1991 — Richard A. Bernatz
Thesis title: Development of the Finite Analytic Method for Turbulent Forced and Free Convection
Supervisor:

Professor C.J. Chen (Mechanical Engineering)
Position: Associate Professor, Mathematics, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
May, 1990 — Randall G. Wills
Thesis title: Resolution of the Multiplicity Problem for U(N) Using Shift Operators
Supervisors:

Professors Tuong Ton-That (Mathematics)
Professors Bill Klink (Physics)
Position: Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
May, 1990 — Jeng Yen
Thesis title: Numerical Methods for Constrained Equations of Motion in Mechanical Systems Dynamics
Supervisors:

Professors Ed Haug (Mechanical Engineering)
Professor Florian Potra (Mathematics)
Position: Telerobotics, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
May, 1988 — Ann Castelfranco
Thesis title: Nonlinear Feedback Processes in Models of Neuronal Excitability
Supervisors:

Professor Peter Getting (Physiology)
Professor Herbert Hethcote (Mathematics)
Position: Bekesy Lab/PBRC at University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
May, 1986 — Van Kolpin
Thesis title: Extensions and Application of Effectivity Function Theory
Supervisor:

Professor Tatsuro Ichiichi (Economics)
Position: Professor of Economics, University of Oregon
December, 1982 — Hung Ly Lam
Thesis title: Numerical Methods for Iterative Structural Optimization with emphasis on Problems with Repeated Eigenvalues
Supervisor:

Professor Ed Haug (Mechanical Engineering)
December, 1980 — Kyung K. Choi
Thesis title: Optimization of Structures with Repeated Eigenvalues
Supervisor:

Professor Ed Haug (Mechanical Engineering)
Position: Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Iowa
May, 1977 — David Fyfe
Thesis title: Studies in Two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Supervisor:

Professor David Montgomery (Physics)
May, 1976 — Hayley Shen
Thesis title: On the Application of Similarity Analysis
Supervisor:

Karl Lonngren (Information Engineering)
Position: Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University

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