All Graduates

  • July, 2020 — Shuyang Fu
    Thesis title: L^p Solutions of Fully Nonlinear Equations with Unbounded Lower Order Terms
    Supervisor:
    Professor Lihe Wang (Mathematics)
  • July, 2020 — Melanie King
    Thesis title: Length Space Skeletonization
    Supervisors:
    Professor Oguz Durumeric (Mathematics)
    Professor Gary Christensen (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
    Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA
  • July, 2020 — Hassan Rafique
    Thesis title: Provable Methods for Non-Convex Min-Max Optimization and Models for Interpretable Machine Learning
    Supervisor:
    Professor Qihang Lin (Business Analytics)
    Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Indianapolis
  • June, 2020 — Samuel Brensinger
    Thesis title: Projective Gauge Gravity
    Supervisor:
    Professor Vincent G. J. Rodgers (Physics and Astronomy)
  • December, 2019 — Anh Phuoc Quynh Nguyen
    Thesis title: Information Processing in the Auditory Cortex: The Case Studies of Perceptual Alternation in Auditory Streaming and Laminar Origin of Surface Evoked Responses to Sounds
    Supervisor:
    Professor Rodica Curtu (Mathematics)
    Position: Postdoc, Department of Mathematics, IUPUI (Indiana University and Purdue University)
  • August, 2019 — Ruqiah Muhammad
    Thesis title: A New Dynamic Model for Non-viral Multi-treatment Gene Delivery System for Bone Regeneration: Parameter Extraction, Estimation, and Sensitivity
    Supervisors:
    Professor Bruce Ayati (Mathematics)
    Professor Colleen Mitchell (Mathematics)
  • August, 2019 — Roberto Toro Rodriguez
    Thesis title: Rethinking Meta-Analysis: An Alternative Model for Random-Effects Meta-Analysis Assuming Unknown Within-Study Variance-Covariance
    Supervisor:
    Professor Ariel M. Aloe (Psychological and Quantitative Foundations)
    Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
  • May, 2019 — Jennifer Verniero
    Thesis title: Turbulence in Heliospheric Plasmas: Characterizing the Energy Cascade and Mechanisms of Dissipation
    Supervisor:
    Professor Gregory Howes (Physics and Astronomy)
    Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory
  • 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
  • December, 2018 — Yang Yang
    Thesis title: 2D Signal Processing: Efficient Models for Spectral Compressive Sensing & Single Image Reflection Suppression
    Supervisors:
    Professor Jianfeng Cai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
    Professor Weiyu Xu (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
    Position: Senior Software Engineer, ASML Hermes-Microvision, Inc., San Jose, CA
  • 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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