Mini-symposium on Symbolic Data Science, MDS'22
End of AY 23/24 celebration!
2022 Annual SIAM Front Range Applied Mathematics Student Conference
Current Members
Evan Gorman (Postdoc)
Sean Svihla (PhD)
Meilan Jess (BAM)
Maedee Trank-greene (BAM)
Devlin Costello (Undergrad)
Past Members Theses
Sean Svihla (MS 2024)
Thesis: Sparsification of Covariance Matrices of K-regular Trees
Alex Paradise (MS 2024)
Thesis: Quantitative Encoding of Bags-of-Words for Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection in Textual Data
Evan Gorman (PhD 2023)
Thesis: Learning Sparse Representations of Hierarchically Structured Data with Applications to Comparative Metagenomics
Placement: Innovation Fellow, DARPA
Kesler O'Connor (PhD 2022)
Thesis: Source Localization on Infection Networks
Wenhao Wang (Honors 2022)
Thesis: Hidden Erdös-Rényi Graphs in Stochastic Block Model Networks
Nicole Dong (Honors 2022)
Thesis: Performance of the Chen-Stein’s Method on Sums of Bernoulli Random Variables
Placement: CS PhD Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Perrin Ruth (MS 2022)
Thesis: Numerical Encoding of Symbolic Data: Standard, State of the Art, and New Techniques
Placement: Graduate Program, University of Maryland
Antony Pearson (PhD 2020)
Thesis: On Hidden Structures in Contaminated Symbolic Data
Placement: Postdoc, Auburn University
Richard Tillquist (PhD 2020)
Thesis: Low-Dimensional Embeddings for Symbolic Data Science
Placement: Associate Professor, California State University
Lucas Laird (BS 2019)
Thesis: Metric Dimension of Hamming Graphs and Applications to Computational Biology
Placement: Research Assistant, MIT Lincoln Labs
Tyler Schuessler (Honors 2019)
Thesis: A Stochastic Prediction for the h-index Utilizing Price's Preferential Attachment Model
Placement: MATH PhD Program, University of Utah
Jonathan Lavington (MS 2018)
Thesis: A Probabilistic Modeling Approach to CRISPR-Cas9
Placement: CS PhD Program, University of British Columbia
Ian Char (MS 2018)
Thesis: Algorithmic Construction and Stochastic Analysis of Optimal Automata for Generalized Strings
Placement: ML PhD Program, Carnegie Mellon University
Jaden Pieper (MS 2017)
Thesis: Unentangling Quantum Algorithms for Mathematicians and Engineers
Placement: NIST Research Intern
Jerrad Hampton (PhD 2012)
Thesis: Dissimilarity and Optimal Sampling in Urn Ensembles
Placement: Aerospace Postdoc, University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen Chestnut (MS 2010)
Thesis: Approximating Markov chain occupancy distributions
Placement: APPM & STATS PhD Program, John Hopkins University
Gregory C. Peterson (MS 2010)
Thesis: Fairness Analysis via Poissonization
Placement: STATS PhD Program, North Carolina State University